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...Entertainment Channel is offering a splendid re-creation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn; Showtime has Paul Osborn's 1939 comedy Morning's at Seven, with four stars from its recent Broadway revival; and Home Box Office is airing Camelot, with Richard Harris as King Arthur in the throes of male menopause. Other transplanted Broadway shows will follow later this year: Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Showtime), Medea with Zoe Caldwell and Judith Anderson (CBS Cable) and Long Day's Journey into Night with Ruby...
...with most pay-cable theater offerings, Camelot is a safe bet: a hit show that became a hit movie, with a big star treading the boards once more in an upscale TV dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this...
THEODORE H. WHITE'S final work in his legendary Making of the President series will make him seem a turncoat to many who once worshipped John F. Kennedy's Camelot with...
...tortured, bisexual archbishop, whose encounters with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal...
...said of T.H. White in her biography of the author of The Once and Future King. Everything took on an enchanted significance for her-dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that she proffered...