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...main thing, however, is that the TV movies offer variety, but not too much of it-a nice overall blend of familiar faces and situations with newer personalities and original twists. Convenient to turn on, easy to flick off, movies made for TV approximate the conditions under which all movies used to be chanced by audiences years ago. They are a small but genuine blessing for persistently optimistic people who can remember when at least half the pleasure of moviegoing derived precisely from the fact that no sense of cultural occasion was attached to that simple, inexpensive act. "Richard Schickel
...With evident unhappiness, Blotner notes Faulkner's truly monumental drinking bouts, which friends and relatives learned to predict. Whenever he began reciting Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle," a siege of gin and bourbon was imminent. The author's domestic life was a Faulknerian blend of the Gothic and the genteel. In 1918, his childhood sweetheart Estelle Oldham wed someone else. Faulkner waited. After ten years her marriage broke up, and Faulkner proposed. Their lifelong union was outwardly placid, Faulkner the proper country squire, Estelle his lady. But their mutual drinking produced nightmarish battles...
...Jordan's performance as Russell provides a fine focus for the rest of the cast. Downtrodden from years of grinning widely and being patted on the head, he drags his feet in a shuffle. And yet he can rebound with astonishing strength and resolve. Jordan makes Russell an intricate blend of contradiction and sorrow, who sometimes acts foolishly and other times proves he is nobody's fool. The family's other members, played by Geogory Pennington, Michael R. Russell and Angela D. Lee, are comfortable with the old man, whose stories and fibs they know so well. Each recognizes...
Evans, a Manhattan dentist's son, relishes the growing legends that surround his success. With his darkly handsome face and deep mellifluous voice-a blend of West Side New York with Bill Buckley vowel attenuation-drama is his element. The wonder is that his own acting career failed. In fitting Old Hollywood style, he was "discovered" by Norma Shearer by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shearer decided that Evans was the man to play her late husband, MGM Producer Irving Thalberg, in the film Man of a Thousand Faces. Evans has since been compared to Thai-berg...
Arms from George III. Richard Tregaskis' "biography" is therefore a blend of the fanciful and the factual. But it makes a fascinating tale that hurtles home like one of its hero's long spears. Kahekili, the warlord who was probably Kamehameha's real father, attempted to have the infant killed because of a threatening prophecy. Later, other princes were awed when the stripling moved a huge stone that mature warriors could not budge. Kamehameha began as a not-so-noble savage who brained and impaled foes in combat, conquered cousins, uncles and dear...