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...reality of what happened in Atlanta may more likely be what they saw enacted last week on TV. That was not history, not journalism, but crusading entertainment, with the facts carefully organized to sustain a neat story line and to suit a political point of view: Writer-Producer Abby Mann believes that Williams was railroaded. Responding to local hysteria and national scrutiny, Atlanta officials were, Mann contends, so desperate to close the books on as many as 29 allegedly connected murders that they would have blamed absolutely anyone. Mann's position lacks internal logic: while on the one hand accusing...
Your hostess on tonight's cruise Anita Mann (Robert Sagar Coburn). Entertainment on the Lido Deck, from the bountiful Miles Long (Leonard Dick), who offers up vintage shlock along the lines of "It's love, bigger than a breadbox. It's love, trendier than dredlocks." Cabin assistants include Eileen Dover (Zak Klobucher), Sharon Sharalike (Mark Meredith). Auntie Histamine (Michael Golder) and Alice Fairinlove (Steve Lyne...
...quite good, the show never seriously falters. Alexis Position is the one real standout as the snippity angel who makes her entrance in enough gold lame to redo the State House dome, and who secretly longs to have. "The Devil in Me." Strong performances as well come from Anita Mann and Lou Suffer, proving once again that evil is easier to imitate than is virtue...
...docudramas, of course, have often drawn fire for their uneasy melding of fact and fiction. But rarely has one come along that so clearly demonstrates the potential abuses of the form. The Atlanta Child Murders, written and co- produced by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, King), unearths no significant new evidence; it merely sifts through the record to reconstruct the defense's case. The film's kangaroo court then convicts the Atlanta police of incompetence, the city's black leadership of insensitivity and the criminal- justice system of railroading a suspect on the flimsiest evidence...
Writer-Producer Mann, who researched the movie by talking to most of the principals, insists that his version is fair and accurate. "I bent over backward to be objective," he says. "This goes beyond whether Wayne Williams is guilty or innocent. The case raises tremendous issues: about the use of fiber evidence, about the use of pattern (the admission of evidence from other $ killings besides the two for which Williams was charged), about the closing of the cases so quickly after the conviction." Some in Atlanta agree that the movie will, at the very least, renew calls to reopen...