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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ilana's earliest memories are of Party meetings in their house and the countless times the family has to move because landlords will tolerate neither their politics nor their gatherings. No matter where they live, though, the Chandals hang a small wooden harp on the entrance door that emits a sound with every visitor. It seems that all that passes through the door the politics the passions, play on the impressionable Ilana, too. Potok has written a Bildangstoman, a portrait of the artist as a young girl whose watchful eyes and curious mind set upon the whirlwind times and enigmatic...
During its infancy, ABC was clearly overmatched by its two veteran rivals, , but slowly began to make its presence felt. The network's earliest hit show was Disneyland, produced by Walt Disney Studios in 1954. Later, ABC spurred television's western craze with such popular shows as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Maverick and The Rifleman. The network was also home for such TV crowd pleasers of the '50s and '60s as Ozzie and Harriet, The Untouchables, Leave It to Beaver and The Fugitive, some of which are gathering a new generation of fans on daytime and late...
...owners, who will not take charge until next season at the earliest, are not likely to make any sudden, drastic programming switches in the game plan to get ABC back on top. Though Capital Cities Chairman Thomas Murphy is described as a man of old-fashioned values, an attitude that could influence the selection of shows, the company also has a strong tradition of not meddling in the program decisions or editorial content of its media properties. Says Murphy: "If you think I know enough about scripts that I'm going to make changes in network programming, you're crazy...
There are two kinds of people: those who divide things into two categories and those who do not. Vladimir Nabokov is the first kind. In one of his earliest U.S. lectures, the Russian emigre told his classes at Stanford University that there were, essentially, "verb plays and adjective plays, plain plays of action and florid plays of characterization...
Sound familiar? It should: the corrupted priest following for the modifications made here for the benefit of the TV generation) has been around and has been satirized since the earliest days of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet Farley is the latest, the most inventive and complex, in this reliquary of triteness, this film of continuous banality. Lemmon copes admirably: at moments reminiscent of Ronald Reagan at his complacent best, he creates with terrifying familiarity a portrait of the sycophantic politician per excellence. He oozes charm, exudes insincerity, succeeding so well, in fact, that the only thing priestly about this...