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...rest of this fall's PBS lineup includes a reprise of Lord Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and a continuation of the BBC's Masterpiece Theater. The opening Masterpiece production is a felicitous, six-week serialization of Jude the Obscure, which, except for the gloom-struck overview of Thomas Hardy, is a sort of high-class Peyton Place. The Lucy of public TV, Julia Child, is also back in a new 26-part series on French cuisine, "designed," she says, "as a refresher course for experienced cooks and as a jet-assist take-off for beginners...
Iconophobia is fear of images, and Clark, who produced and moderated the "Civilization" series for BBC, is thinking of writing a book...
...Jones Show, Hamlet starring Richard Chamberlain, and two new series this fall-The Persuaders, with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, and Shirley's World, with Shirley MacLaine (see TELEVISION). Last year's foreign sales of $30 million were more than twice those of the BBC or all the other commercial TV firms combined...
Antony Jay, a British management consultant and former BBC producer, thinks that the distance between the tribal councils of Kalahari bushmen and the inner circles of IBM is not all that great. In a book to be published next month, Corporation Man (Random House; $7.95), Jay argues that modern business firms are organized on the same basis as aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, the behavior of corporate executives springs not so much from reason as from animallike, prehistoric instincts. As in Management and Machiavelli, a 1968 book in which Jay compared the corporation to a nation-state, he has done little scientific...
...BBC current affairs show flickers onto British TV screens. The moderator introduces Ken Russell, director of The Devils, and Alexander Walker, film critic of the London Evening Standard. Crikey! another of those urbanely boring panel discussions. But wait. Russell and Walker are turning red in the face, shouting at each other. Walker attacks The Devils for "monstrous indecency . . . simplemindedness . . . gross harping on the physical. . ." Russell attacks Walker as "old-womanly . . . a carping critic ... hysterical . . ." Then Russell rolls up a copy of the newspaper containing Walker's review and swats him on the head with...