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...many hotels, so that returning to a room was as bothersome as boarding an airplane. The Olympic Village, whose counterpart in Munich in 1972 was the target of the terrorist attack in which eleven died, was under particularly tight control. Said James Gilkes, a U.S.-educated sprinter from Guyana: "I'm in the right wing of Building 13, but I can't even go into the left wing. If I want to see someone who's in another building, I can't do that either. You can't even visit your friends...
...strategically placed miniseries, made-for-TV movies and other specials. While ABC failed to repeat the triumphs of last season's Roots: The Next Generations and Elvis, CBS scored with Kenny Rogers As the Gambler, Scruples, Nurse and, in the ultimate and decisive week of the season, Guyana Tragedy, a $1.8 million, two-part blockbuster based on the career of the Rev. Jim Jones. Guyana drew 46% of the national audience the first night and 50% the second, wiping out the success of ABC's Academy Awards pageant earlier in the week. "It was all over after Guyana...
...Guyana Tragedy, which has been adapted by Ernest Tidyman from the Washington Post's quickie book on the Jonestown massacre, is as refined as it can be under the circumstances. There are some name actors (Ned Beatty, Colleen Dewhurst, LeVar Burton, James Earl Jones, Veronica Cartwright) in the cast, though several only have walk-on roles. The re-creations of the story's pivotal events are skillful enough to jog one's memories of the infamous TV news footage. Yet CBS may have erred on the side of caution. The movie's lengthy, dutiful depictions...
Most of the action in Guyana occurs in the final half-hour of each installment. In Part 1, there is a climax that makes Dallas look like Washington Square: having already had an affair with a married female follower (Diana Scarwid), Jones starts to make love to the woman's husband (Brad Dourif) as she looks on. One's mind reels merely in contemplation of the efforts it no doubt took to get the scene past the network's censors. In Part 2, things get going when Congressman Leo Ryan (Beatty) arrives to investigate the Peoples Temple...
...even intelligence of "Dad" Jim Jones. His final incantations to the dyingdelivered in a feverish but strangely disembodied voicecreate a more deathly mood than all the corpses piling up onscreen. If Writer Tidyman had only matched Boothe's talent with a complexly written role, Guyana Tragedy would be as notable as drama as it is as ratings gambit...