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...Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier, but still informative reality fare for women fell to daytime-programming chief Chuck Gingold, who had worked at Lifetime and had noticed the huge success of shows about weddings like that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. With heightened competition for the women's market, voyeurism at a premium and a fragmented culture shorter than ever on rituals, Gingold's mid-five-figure-budget...
...shows are working for TLC--whose daytime, toll-free, direct-response ads have been replaced by commercials from Wal-Mart and Sony. So assuming the more suspenseful Dating continues to perform, can tearful bat mitzvahs and confirmations be far behind? Gingold won't say, but he does drive one point home. "You won't be seeing divorces or funerals. This is happy...
Ariel Chamber Ensemble--Earl Kim, conductor; Hermione Gingold, narrator; works of Bach, Walton and Schumann; Sanders Theater...
...wayward villain. He has apparently sought to create the same broad, almost campy mannerisms Cyril Ritchard had in the original version, but, perhaps through bad direction, he has overshot his mark. As a result, his Cap tain Hook is almost effeminate, modeled less on Ritchard and more on Hermione Gingold. It is perhaps a too original interpretation...
...Elizabeth Taylor is a good choice to play the aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...