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...tiny Tuscan village of Collodi (pop. 1,800), where Author Loren-zini spent much of his childhood and whose name he later took as part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past the "Inn of the Red Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built...
...surprised itself in 1976 with the popularity of the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, and astonished itself a year ater with Roots. This Wednesday through Friday, the network tries to braid the formats and themes of those shows in a 19th century drama of Irish rebellion and emigration, The Manions of America. The Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those...
...Herman Wouk, 66, presiding over a Truman Capote lookalike contest? No, just posing with some extras for the ABC-TV mini-series of his sprawling novel The Winds of War, to be aired next year. When the author dropped by during location shooting in Siena, Italy, he was written in for a nonspeaking walk-on as an archbishop. Director Dan Curtis figured there was no point in making it all play and no Wouk...
...short features tucked in between. "Give us 18 minutes," Satellite NewsChannels boasts, "and we'll give you the world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel will also produce a five-minute segment each hour of local and regional news, a bonus that CNN does not provide...
...leaky pens, misplaced notes, carbon paper inserted backward-all the inevitable vexations of the writing trade. They may be annoying, but they are not enough to turn off the current of this newest electronic revolution. Even the biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have...