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Among the more ambitious efforts will be ABC's twelve-hour serialization of Alex Haley's Roots, scheduled to start on Jan. 23. A semifictional history, Roots traces Haley's ancestry from Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka African youth captured by slave traders in 1767. ABC has invested more than $6 million in the production, which will be televised over eight consecutive evenings-a scheduling experiment matched only by ABC's coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics...
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...Roots, Haley (2) 2-Passages, Sheehy (1) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 4-Blind Ambition, Dean (4) 5-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (5) 6-Adolf Hitler, Toland (6) 7-Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 8-The Hite Report, Hite (8) 9-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (9) 10-To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow...
Some of the books currently appearing on most-in-demand lists are "Curtain," by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot's last cast), "Roots," by Alex Haley, a black historic document, and "Life after Life," by Raymond Moody Jr., M.D., a book that contains case histories of people whom doctors have declared clinically dead but who lived and recovered...
Auld Acquaintances Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. are getting together for a little New Year's Eve celebration, and other couples are invited to join them, if they have $200 to $500 to spare. Davis, 50, who was best man at her 1974 wedding to Jack Haley Jr., will share the spotlight with Liza, 30, singing, dancing and clowning in a 1½-hour cabaret act at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Bubbles Liza: "I've been dreaming about this ever since Sammy jumped onto the stage in the middle of my act at Harrah...