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...nine symphonies and assorted lesser works. By the standards of commercial television, the American 60% is made up of generally low-budget productions: the dance troupes of Twyla Tharp and May O'Donnell, Count Basie at Carnegie Hall and Elizabeth Swados' musical reworking of poems by William Blake. The host and narrator for most of the programming is Patrick Watson, 51, a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and writer who wears a dinner jacket, affects a hearty manner and will probably be considered inoffensive by most people...
...between $8 and $10 a month for the commercial-free service. Unlike CBS-C, which tailors most of its own productions to the size of the small screen, usually shooting in TV studios, BRAVO favors stage performances before live audiences. Recent presentations included jazz from Carnegie Hall with Eubie Blake and Herbie Hancock, a concert by the St. Louis Symphony and a backstage look at the New York City Opera with Beverly Sills...
...based Rich and Famous on the Van Druen play, Old Acquaintance, also the title of the 1940s melodrama based on it which started Bette Davis and Miriam Hopks. In its newest incarnation, Ayres supposedly follows the two women, here, Bisset and Candace Bergen as her best friend, Merry Noel Blake, from their college days in '59 up through 1981. It traces their literary careers and sexual histories up to apparent collective midlife decisions to reject men as anything other than sexual toys and to reject their own work. Ayres clutters the original melodrama at side issues like the effect...
...famous Malibu neighbors, who came to her for tuna and consolation. She changes their names and calls it a novel. She then emotionally blackmails Bisset into bringing this litter-box lining to her prestigious publisher. Not merely a supportive friend, but a good neighbor; that's Merry Noel Blake. The film seems unaware of just how appalling Merry's behavior is; it certainly doesn't take it very seriously. Needless to say, Merry quickly joins the ranks of milionaire trash novelists like Jacqueline Sussann and Judith Krantz...
...Burns, Blake and the Recovery of the Lyric--Leopoid Damrosch; Boylston Auditorium...