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...time "withdrawn and very, very angry," nursing murderous fantasies. Working eight to ten hours a day for six weeks at his home in Switzerland, he churned out his first vengeful draft of S.O.B. That was in 1973, and it was not until eight years later that Lorimar agreed to make his black comedy about Hollywood. It is a typical movie business irony that after Edwards finished making it, Lorimar signed a distribution agreement with Paramount, where, as Edwards sees it, his troubles began. It is certainly typical of Edwards that although his old nemeses have left Paramount, he has been...
Such remarks may cause Wildman's opponents almost to choke with anger. "Wildmon is like Hitler with his hit list," says Lee Rich, president of Lorimar, the company that produces such likely targets as Dallas, Flamingo Road and Knots Landing. "No one should tell the American public what to watch or what to do. Who is Wildmon to say he is the judge? When does it stop?" Joel Segal, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Ted Bates ad agency, was aroused enough to fault giant P & G for giving "credence and support to a bunch of radicals...
...audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie over a Triscuit. These mechanisms had propelled daytime drama-the radio and TV soaps-for nearly half a century before the Dallas pioneers, Lorimar Productions, streamlined them for prime time. Dallas proved that mobile America would sit still each week for a continuing story of byzantine complexity. Since the current TV season began in November...
Since Dallas, Lorimar has launched three more sexy serials, and two of them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
...season neared, Lorimar announced that Mary Crosby, who plays Kristin, would appear only in the first five episodes. "My part was up," she gallantly deadpanned early last week. "They need new people." In fact, Kristin was always the ideal perpetrator. As Sue Ellen's sweet sister and J.R.'s conniving mistress, she was in the family but not of it; her purging from Dallas would set off enough shock waves to surprise the unwary viewer without destroying the basic family unit. Moreover, Kristin had both motives and nerve for the deed...