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...docu-drama based on Watergater John Dean's Blind Ambition. Event-loving NBC plans almost as many of these high-budget miniseries as its network rivals combined. Among them: 79 Park Avenue by Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey's Wheels, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, plus a biography of Martin Luther King...
...early days provided Terkel with plenty to find. He grew up in the city that produced the fictional Studs Lonigan and Augie March and the real Al Capone. His mother owned a boardinghouse and later leased a hotel near the Loop. Its lobby was a stage set filled with bit players of the '20s: drifters, grifters, autodidacts, a few nuts and bolts from the political machine. Some of the guests, Terkel remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this...
Died. James Henle, 81, longtime president of Vanguard Press (1928-52) and first publisher of some of his generation's best-known authors, including Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim), James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan trilogy), Dr. Seuss and Mystery Writer Rex Stout; of Parkinson's disease; in Arlington...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "The Tough and Joyful World of James T. Farrell," a dramatized look at the feisty author of Studs Lonigan...
...Diversion. To show how things are, with nothing subtracted for propriety or added for spice, is the sole aim of naturalism, the earnest flat-footed literary school of which Farrell has been perhaps the most determinedly flat-footed U.S. member. His career, beginning with his wildly successful Studs Lonigan trilogy, has been ruled by the naturalistic writers' obsessive need to prove, over and over again, that life is not art. It is a lesson that occasionally needs teaching, and Farrell and such hesitant early experimenters as William Dean Howells cleared away a good deal of literary rubbish by writing...