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From Russia without love came a biting film critique in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. The plot is "pretty naive and banal," and the purpose of the film is to "arouse a psychosis against the Soviet Union in the Western countries -the evil atmosphere of days long since gone." The offending movie: Telefon, a U.S. spy flick now being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says...
...sets from hockey and basketball games to Roots. In all, some 130 million Americans watched at least part of the series. Seven of the eight episodes ranked among the Top Ten in all-time TV ratings (the other three: this year's Super Bowl, Parts 1 and 2 of Gone With the Wind). The last episode drew an audience of 80 million, smashing the record set last November by the first half of GWTW, which told much the same story but from the other side and smothered in magnolia blossoms...
...dramatization spurred a rush for the 688-page book, which has gone into 14 printings since it was published in October. Sales hit a one-day peak of 67,000 on the third day of the TV series; so far, about 750,000 copies have been sold (list price: $12.50). To keep up with the soaring demand, Doubleday, the publisher, will have 1 million copies in print by March 1. In many cities, it became common for copies of Roots to be stolen from stores. In New York City, thieves broke a display window in a Doubleday bookstore on Fifth...
...addition, publishers in 13 countries have bought translation rights. Thus, with a paperback edition scheduled in the U.S. in October.* Roots is well on the way to becoming one of the bestselling books in years, though it has far to go to catch up with Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, which has sold 21 million copies, in hardback and paperback, since...
...most blacks, however, many despair of ever uncovering their roots. Said Mary Gaines, 20, a black secretary at Northeastern University's African-American Institute in Boston: "I know about my great-grandmother, but beyond that it's a dead end. All the old people in my family are gone. I probably won't ever know...