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This is the man Abel Gance gives us in his film Napoleon...
...service is a bold gamble of more than $10 million on a market that has often proved treacherous for TV: cul ture and fine arts. In the first seven days, viewers were almost buried under good shows, or, at the very least, good intentions. Shakespeare, Beethoven and Napoleon were among the big names; Calamity Jane, Quentin Crisp and an odd English botanist named David Bellamy were among the smaller ones. Not always successful, CBS-C's first week was nonetheless al ways impressive...
...first choice of its programs to the RCA/Rockefeller Center network, which will go on the air early next year, CBS-C is leaning heavily on Britain's commercial stations and TV companies in Italy and Germany. From Britain comes a nine-part series on the love life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with Ian Holm as the Little Corporal and Billie Whitelaw as his Josephine; a drama series called A Play for Love, which debuted last week with a new one-acter by John Osborne, starring Alec Guinness; and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, with Ian McKellen...
...know what astounds me most about the world?" Napoleon asked in his later days. "It is the impotence of force to establish anything . . . In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind...
...most important thing in my life is Jodie Foster's love and admiration. If I can't have them, neither can anybody else. We are a historical couple, like Napoleon and Josephine, and a romantic couple like Romeo and Juliet...