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...assassin's marital problems, his sojourn in Russia and his activities just prior to Nov. 22, 1963. Though Star John Pleshette creates an intriguingly neurotic Oswald, the man remains a cryptic figure. The trial itself, which dominates Part Two, is-well -trying, with fictional lawyers (played bombastically by Lome Greene and Ben Gazzara) wrangling endlessly over their case's voluminous ballistics evidence, Perry Mason-style...
Another of Chase's idols was Comedian Ernie Kovacs, the 1950s master of surrealism whose shows are finally being rebroadcast in a series now on public television. Says Saturday Night producer Lome Michaels: "Kovacs was the consummate television comic, and Chevy has that same sense of how to use the medium. I don't think he'll ever leave it completely." Chase does plan to limit his own tube time, hinting at one reason for abandoning his weekly act on SN: "I certainly don't want to get so overexposed on TV that people...
Alex Haley and the TV producers had the Lome Greene character farming cotton in Spotsylvania County, Va.; it should have been tobacco. Harold Cruse, author of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, observes: "When you see Leslie Uggams and her long polished nails, you just have to laugh." Although Cruse liked Roots, he thought "the ending was contrived, commercialized and romanticized. For one thing, under those conditions, you don't just tie up a plantation owner to a tree and then get into a wagon and casually drive away as if there weren't bloodhounds and night riders...
...Lome, Togo--Back of the wide yellow beach and its palm trees that are your first impression, there are the woven-bamboo shacks that surround every city I saw in Africa. The huts are fenced-off into compounds with communal cooking and eating areas...
...longer be filling prime time on TV, but the spirit of the Ponderosa gallops on. Big Ben Cartwright rode into Washington last week to lobby for some of the constituents of Ponderosa ranch: horses. Along with Papa Charcoal, the American Horse Protection Association's mascot, Actor Lome Greene gave a press conference opposite the White House, asking for legislation to curb the cruelties inflicted on horses in the U.S. Greene, who has his own ranch in California's San Fernando Valley, has joined the board of the A.H.P.A. Said one fan who had gathered round to give Papa...