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They have moved away now, saying the neighborhood got too crowded. No matter, though; next week new folks, name of Trask, are moving in, just for a spell. They dress and talk funny, and when I asked old Adam Trask where he came from, he declared, "East of Eden." But I think they should fit into Nightsoap just fine...
...money and dirty money, macho patriarchs and mysterious paternities, good people worrying about, doing right and bad people having fun doing wrong were not enough, ABC has reserved three nights (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) next week for an adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, East of Eden. While this eight-hour TV movie has clear cultural pretensions, it is really 99-and-44/100% pure soap...
...East of Eden, there can be no such hope. Twelve years after his death, Steinbeck's reputation grazes in the pasture of celebrated oblivion inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...
...Fred Silverman. While Silverman's face adorned the front pages, the network's ratings and profits plummeted. Now, though, as NBC finally unveils its new fare, Silverman may have something to crow about. Two shows-Flamingo Road, a sultrier Dallas, and Harper Valley P. T.A., featuring Barbara Eden in a smile and a wet T shirt-have already buoyed the network's ratings. A third show, which is being tested at 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, offers even more. It is a comedy-drama called Hill Street Blues, and it is the best new series since...
...proverbial Garden of Eden may have been in ... southern California," writes Goodman in American Genesis...