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Dennis Potter lived on TV. He was a dramatist, not an actor, yet viewers in his native England and abroad knew Potter's life story through his teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic...
Centrist Briton poised to lead Labour Party -- and maybe more...
...Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger eked out a one-vote parliamentary majority from absentee ballots cast in elections earlier this month. Bolger insisted that his conservative National Party could govern with 50 out of 99 parliamentary seats, vs. 45 for Labour and four for minor parties. But a National M.P. is expected to be named as Speaker, who cannot routinely support the government. Bolger thus faces the possibility of a hung parliament on key ballots...
...Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London, "are not remotely interested in the Irish. When there is no trouble in Ireland, nobody discusses it. When there is trouble, it's too dangerous to discuss...
...where, in addition to his TV interests, Murdoch controls one-third of the circulation of the country's national daily newspapers, critics complain that his voice threatens to drown out all others. "It's not healthy for democracy, and it's not healthy for competition," says Robin Cook, a Labour Party spokesman. But in nondemocratic Asia, some experts draw the opposite conclusion about the acquisition of STAR TV. "This has considerable political, social and cultural implications," says Anne Thompson, a media analyst for Mees Pierson Securities in Hong Kong. "Repressive governments can't control information, can't control what people...