Word: docudrama
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Elvis (ABC). In the realm of unpromising ideas, this one looked like a lulu: the King's early life recounted in half-hour chunks of musical docudrama. The surprise was that star Michael St. Gerard created a character, not just an Elvis impersonation, and the short-lived series was a lovely evocation of the American show-biz myth...
...TRAGEDY OF FLIGHT 103: THE INSIDE STORY (HBO, Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST). The events leading up to the Lockerbie crash are recounted in this docudrama, a co-production with Britain's Granada TV, which presents a strong indictment of the security precautions taken by Pan Am and the Federal Aviation Administration...
...KRAYS. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play. In the 1960s these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's docudrama underscores the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays...
...KRAYS. In the 1950s and '60s, these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's brisk docudrama understands the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play...
Billy is currently working on a docudrama about the life of King Richard III. This one is sure to generate plenty of attention, since it adopts the controversial technique of using actors to re-create real-life news events. Early in the play, Richard hires two thugs to murder his brother, the Duke of Clarence. In the scene as written, the murderers declare their intention to stab Clarence and then "throw him in the malmsey-butt in the next room," malmsey being a local beverage...