Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, Michener's epic was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese) and presented an exhaustive social, political, religious and even geological history of the islands since the Paleolithic period. From this embarrassment of snitches, Hill & Co. selected two strong narrative threads and with them delineated a simple, impressive picture of how God-fearing but life-hating missionaries destroyed the warm brown souls they came to save...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, George Hamilton, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger...
...than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic. The author is neither moralizing nor sentimental, and his book approaches no more than an old man's reminiscent glow. This is how Vienna was. These are the people who coursed its cobbled streets under the gaslights-denizens of a far less frenetic age. Von Doderer has no illusions...
...Hollywood, and cooed on location in a Utah desert. Then, for a change, Lynda, 22, flew off last month on a Hawaiian vacation sans George, even stopping en route to visit an old beau in San Francisco. Back in Hollywood, where he had just finished a Civil War epic, The Long Ride Home, and a romantic farce co-starring Sandra Dee, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, George was making the rounds - and the columns - with a succession of starlets. Just as it seemed that their ardor had cooled, Lynda abruptly broke off her Hawaiian vacation...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...