Word: docudramas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the archetypal scene of the early civil rights struggle. Yet this particular restaging of it was a breakthrough for a quite different reason. It appeared not in a TV movie or a PBS docudrama but on a network news show...
...parody of Woodward's legendary deathbed chat with CIA director William Casey. The journalist visits the hotel room where Belushi took his fatal overdose and hallucinates an interview with the dying star. "Breathe for me, Woodward!" the samurai comic cries. And it's hard to hate a docudrama in which Cathy Smith, Belushi's last drug source, materializes in the straight-arrow reporter's fantasy and asks, "How 'bout you, Woody? You want...
...ends meet. The video culture too fills in the gaps of real life with mountains of fiction. (The average American absorbs more make-believe drama in a year than his ancestors did in a lifetime.) And it ties history's loose ends with a form of fabrication it calls docudrama...
...JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama...
...WADE (NBC, May 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Background viewing for Supreme Court watchers: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News) plays the Texas woman who sued to terminate her pregnancy in this docudrama about the landmark abortion case now under review...