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...gestures. But there were problems in adapting Styron's tale, to which Pakula deferred in his dogged fidelity to the book. For one thing, the choice Sophie must make takes place years before the main story begins; so the film must switch tracks halfway through for a half-hour flashback to a Nazi death camp. Though the sequence is as strong and beautifully detailed as the rest of Pakula's work, the events it depicts could have been narrated by Sophie in a few minutes, and should have been. (The film runs about 2½ hours.) But Sophie...
...this year. "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and "Frosty's Winter Wonderland," all aired last week. A seasonal newcomer, "Ziggy's Gift," has also already made its appearance. (In case you're wondering, Ziggy--of comic strip fame--did not speak at all during the half-hour ABC special...
...idea that most Americans get most of their news from television has for some time been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their...
Jolly is one of nearly 150 viewers who have found work through Job Line, a novel attack on unemployment that originates in WGN-TV in Chicago and is seen in 46 states. The job hungry watch the half-hour Saturday program and call in for information. At least 8,000 people have phoned from across the U.S. since the show started in August, even though all the positions are in the Chicago area...
Reagan's major attempt to resolve the doubts in favor of his party came last week. Initially, the White House sought to purchase time for a major TV address, but the networks balked. Reagan's aides then requested a free half-hour for what they billed as a "nonpartisan" economic report to the nation. Over the howls of Democrats, CBS and NBC agreed...