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...television season is still two weeks off but CBS is jumping the gun with BEACON HILL (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.). The network does not merely admit that the series is based on Upstairs, Downstairs; it is positively insistent on the point. That is a sensible policy, since it is doubtful if the uninstructed viewer could perceive any connection between the engaging PBS bundle from Britain and its vulgar American cousin...
...Beacon Hill is about an Irish family newly arrived at affluence and influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn...
...vibes provide the perfect vehicle for it. He and bassiat Sturbin have been working on transcriptions of piano music for vibes and bass, an interesting idea at least. Combined with their fine renditions of standards and original work, it promises a good evening Wednesday at Papillon, 1353b Beacon St. in Brookline...
That is just how Youngs Drug Products Corp., the makers of Trojans, feel, so they were delighted last week to see KNTV reinstate their spots. For them, KNTV is a beacon of sorts. They hope local stations' acceptance will soften up the networks. Now it seems, resistance has begun to crack. This week station KJAN-TV in Canton, Ohio, will start running the ads. As for KNTV, it views its pioneering role with mixed feelings. Says Yearwood: "It's a hell of a claim to fame accepting the first rubber commercial...
...Lion. If one believes in the adage, "any publicity is good publicity (just get the name right)," than a film like the Wind and the Lion should be reviewed on the day it leaves town. And as a matter of fact this abomination is leaving today, from the Beacon Hill, where it has been preaching the worst kind of fascist nonsense for the past couple of months. The responsibility belongs to USC Film School hot-shot John Millus, who, along with Robert Towns (shampoo, The Last Detail) is Hollywood's favorite litte scriptwriter This film he directs as well...