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...Halpern and Mr. Johnson, which premiered on HBO Sunday and will be seen seven times through Sept. 13, presents Olivier as a cantankerous Jewish businessman inconsolable at the loss of Florence, his wife of 42 years. At the funeral, a prosperous-looking man in a chesterfield (Gleason) asks if he may drop a pink carnation in the grave. It seems that the stranger had met with Florence regularly but platonically during all those years. The remainder of the film is a conversation between the two in which their antipodal perceptions of the same woman-for Mr. Halpern...
...Between Friends, which will appear on HBO six times between Sept. 11 and Sept. 30, the affection between Taylor and Burnett rings true, at least initially. Burnett plays a real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager...
American Family Revisited, HBO, throughout August
This month HBO is airing American Family Revisited, an hour-long examination of how the camera changed the Louds from an anonymous well-to-do Santa Barbara family into what some observers labeled the living symbols of a culture in decline. Made by Susan and Alan Raymond, who filmed the original, the new documentary lacks the ragged power and immediacy of the series: a studied slickness supplants the prototype's shaky hand-held camera style. But underneath the gloss there is - O tempora, O mores! -another exposé of the Loud family's habitual self-exposure...
...list goes on. This fall he will be seen as an aristocratic con man, a crook of many faces, in Orion Pictures' mystery-comedy Scandalous; early next year he will be on TV again, as an officer of the British Raj in HBO's adaptation of M.M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions. ''Once again I had to ride a horse," he says. "I've been in so many films where I had to ride. And I can't ride at all, not at all. It's dreadful work...