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...crisis have become especially hot topics since last January, when Something About Amelia, an ABC movie about incest, won both critical applause and big ratings. In October, viewers proved again that they will watch sober-minded dramas dealing with unpleasant family matters: NBC's The Burning Bed, starring Farrah Fawcett as a battered wife, drew the fourth highest ratings of any TV movie in history...
MOST MISSABLE MILESTONES: Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher's fleeting marriage, Elizabeth Taylor's upcoming marriage, Farrah Fawcett's lack of marriage...
...BURNING BED (NBC). Farrah Fawcett proved she could act, and television proved it could do an "issue drama" without preaching, simplifying or sentimentalizing, in this gripping TV movie about a woman who takes incendiary revenge on her brutal husband...
...example, he deplores Farrah Fawcett-Majors' rise to sex-stardom not on grounds of exploitation, but rather on the grounds that she is not as sexy as the symbols from past generations ("Another time I saw Ms. Fawcett-Majors, she was on TV selling shaving cream. If that's what it took to arouse my passions, long-ago I would have leaped over the counter and into the arms of Mr. Solomon, my druggist.") Later, however, he defends Mayor Byrne from her critics among Chicago's "macho" firemen...
Television movies rarely win both high ratings and critical acclaim, but NBC's The Burning Bed managed to do so last week. Starring Farrah Fawcett, the gritty film was based on a 1977 case in which a battered Michigan housewife set her sleeping husband on fire but was acquitted of murder by a jury. During the program, some stations flashed telephone numbers of local shelters and hot lines for battered women. Thousands of viewers called in: abused wives seeking relief and, in some cases, battering husbands seeking counseling...