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...society increasingly fascinated with violent crime, the Ted Bundy story captured the public imagination. Five books and a television mini-series were produced about the boy-next-door killer. With network-TV broadcasts of the murderer's last interview and scenes of crowds gathered outside the penitentiary, even his execution became a media circus. Whether Bundy intended it or not, his final encounter with death renewed his nightmarish grip on the nation's attention...
This seems to portend more than what follows, which is a long, fairly routine mini-series of a novel. Without appearing to have much on his mind, the author follows the adventures of three families -- one Welsh, one Russian- American, one Jewish-English -- through three wars. The founding patriarch is a young ship's cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World...
...June for $61 million, is now plunging his company into the equally high-risk field of movies and television. In doing so, Gordy, 59, is banking on the talents of his ace protege, Suzanne de Passe, 42, the president of Motown Productions and one of the most promising new mini-moguls in Hollywood...
...viewers will get the chance to judge for themselves next month, when CBS broadcasts Motown's first mini-series, the eight-hour Lonesome Dove. Starring Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Danny Glover, the series is based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling 1985 novel about a 19th century cattle drive. The epic will air on four consecutive nights, starting...
...Board of Overseers member John Lithgow '67 announces plans to film the deliberations of the board for a poignant three-part television mini-series. Lithgow will star as a member who is silenced for his proposal of divestment from companies that dump sewage into Boston Harbor, and Fred Grandy '70 will portray the stern President Bok in the film, to be called, "Divestment Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry...