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Seen one, seen 'em all, say cynics. For all their huge popularity and moneymaking capacity, the soaps are something of a mystery hit. For the uninitiated, there is only one word that really describes them: weird. To watch a soap is to be drawn into an enclosed and not particularly welcoming world...
More than he knew, "Give-'em-hell" Harry Truman was quite faithful to his predecessor's set policy. During the Allied leaders' Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Truman learned that the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt...
...always knew it was a made-up holiday, invented by anxious Jewish parents to mollify their Christmas-hungry offspring. "Look," they were saying, "you don't need any stockings hung by the chimney with care, or presents under the tree. We're gonna give you eight--yes, count'em, eight--different gifts, one for each day of our holiday." It didn't help, of course, that my parents were not big gift-givers. The only thing I remember getting for Chanukah was a picture book about the Feast of Lights, as it was called. I read the book at least...
...Give 'Em Hell, Harry, 7:15 and 9:30 p.m.; weekend showings at 2:45 and 5 p.m. Starts Friday...
...little farther up the street, Give 'Em Hell, Harry occupies Central II, and next door in Central I, The World's Longest Running Feature continues. (And I thought it a disaster when the Sound of Music lasted 2 years in my home town.) James Whitmore recreates his state role as F.D.R.'s heir in Give 'Em Hell, Harry and from all accounts does Mr. Truman justice...