Word: incestousness
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With a movie about incest, TV again explores the forbidden
...movie is billing itself as the first serious drama to explore another forbidden television topic: father-daughter incest. (Brother-sister love was peeped at earlier this year by NBC'S Princess Daisy.) The two-hour show Something About Amelia, scheduled for Jan. 9, is receiving the prudent treatment that is usually accorded "controversial" subjects. Its promotional material comes replete with warnings for parents and a scholarly bibliography. Nevertheless, despite the effluence of manufactured sanctimony, Amelia is a taut and honest, if somewhat monochromatic, treatment of a painful subject...
Amelia confutes the stereotypes of incest and most TV movies: there is no drunken, leering father and no happy ending. If anything, the characters err slightly on the side of restraint. The main flaw in this relentlessly flat and realistic approach lies in the written character of the social workers and psychologists who deal with the problem. They are all unrelievedly sympathetic. But this is a minor quibble. Amelia provides an exception to the network's tired formula for taboo breaking by avoiding prurience and comforting clich...
Social issues including incest, child abuse and the trauma of Vietnam veterans have been central themes on Nixon's shows. She said that with sensitive scripts her shows perform a "tasteful public service...
DEEP IN THE BOWELS of Lowell House, in a cramped room riddled with steam pipes and sighing ventilator shafts. David Win-grove has revived Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, La. Bonjour. Tremblay's play about incest and despair in a Montreal family enjoyed critical success in Canada, made a small splash in New York--and should probably have been allowed to lade into memory thereafter. Though a spirited Lowell House Drama Society production captures enough of Tremblay's lacerating wit to keep the pot boiling for two hours, the script clamps a cover on the actors, and the play never takes...