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...grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
...leading part in the television movie "Rage of Angels" and an Emmy Award winning performance in "Facts For Boys," which was a special for the program "The Body Human." His first regular appearance in a television series was in "Adam's Rib," where he played opposite Blythe Danner...
...author sketches the histories of four people in Bellington, a town she places in West Virginia. They are Mitch Hampson, born in 1910, a soldier, heavy-equipment operator, scrambling business man; his wife Jean, born in the mid-'20s, deeper and more complex than Mitch; and their daughter Danner and son Billy, born in 1949 and 1950. Nothing extraordinary happens to any of them. Jean and Mitch hold their not very companionable marriage together until the children are grown, then get divorced. Danner be comes a pretty, tense, scholarly young woman. Billy is open and decent...
...voice. But the chapters are not merely testimony; the writer's own narration takes over, and memory and present time wash in and out. Now and then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with them ... In the dream...
...orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept the boy. The issue is never much in doubt, since Martin Sheen plays this humanities professor as if his subject were actually humanitarianism. As the wife, Blythe Danner does her customary turn as the best thing about a bad mess. But even her tart realism cannot rescue this movie from its sappy source...