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What HBO's audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials...
...Producer David Wolper were reluctant to make a sequel. Little by little, however, they started exploring the possibilities: Haley began dictating family recollections into a tape recorder to expand the 40-page modern section of his book. Once Haley had spilled 1,000 pages of memories, Television Writer Ernest Kinoy (The Defenders, Playhouse 90) got to work on a "bible" for the show. Kinoy turned in a 350-page outline, and ABC gave the go-ahead for the production...
...Next Generations are about as good as television gets. Besides containing the 8½-minute Brando-Jones confrontation, this segment recounts Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on the Black Muslim's classic autobiography. As played by Al Freeman Jr. and written (in nine drafts) by Kinoy, Malcolm is the first black radical ever to be portrayed as an intelligent, three-dimensional character on television...
Eventually Haley started carrying a tape recorder around with him at all times to dictate his family tales. Within six weeks he piled up more than 800 pages of transcript. From this raw material, Writer Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family from 1882 to 1965. Roots 2 opens in Henning, Tenn., where Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots...
...result of the whole Chicago Seven litigation is ambiguous. The decision to prosecute could be taken as evidence of political contamination of the judicial system; the fact that the verdicts were reversed suggests that justice, in the end, prevailed. Yet the complaint of one of the defense lawyers, Arthur Kinoy, has yet to be definitively resolved. "When you have a trial of intentions, trying what is in people's heads, then it is just impossible to get a fair trial. It wasn't just Judge Hoffman. It was an explosive situation...