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...compare the dramatization of Roots with the British The Fight Against Slavery is a disservice to both. The BBC production is a slave master saying he is sorry; Roots is a slave saying it hurts. If Kunta Kinte is larger than life, so also are all those who have survived the monstrous circumstances of our existence. How diminishing it is to those who have profited and grown off our pain...
When The Pallisers was shown on the BBC in 1974, it proved powerfully addictive. On the nights it was aired, dinners were rescheduled and telephones went unanswered. Critics initially complained that Scriptwriter Simon Raven had tweaked Trollope's beard and had taken too many liberties with his novels. One called The Pallisers "a kind of comic historical waxworks." Almost all eventually fell under its spell, however, agreeing that the series was one of the few that could actually tie viewers to the set week after week. The program has also been shown in the U.S. on Home Box Office...
...runs the accepted version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser...
Died. Rupert Davies, 59, star of the popular BBC television series based on the adventures of Maigret; of cancer; in London. Davies' career began in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, when he acted in troop shows. The BBC signed him in 1960 to play Maigret, the pipe-smoking French detective created by Novelist Georges Simenon. For his portrayal of Maigret, Davies was chosen British Actor of the Year...
...been an art critic in Italy, Britain and, after joining TIME in 1970, the U.S. He has written two books -one on Australian art and one on images of paradise and perdition in Western art. He also has written several art documentaries for Australian television and for the BBC, most recently a pair of 75-minute programs on 17th century Painters Caravaggio and Rubens. Hughes' current projects include a book about Australia's early days as an English penal colony, and also a nine-part television series on 20th century art intended to pick up where Kenneth Clark...