Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedies and four crime shows. The thrillers will include Shaft, with Richard Roundtree repeating his movie role as a flamboyant black private eye, and Cojack, starring Telly Savalas as "a tough but compassionate" cop. Savalas won acclaim this year in a similar role in CBS's The Marcus-Nelson Murders. Another thriller will bring Perry Mason back in a new series. Another Perry has to be found, however, since the old one, Raymond Burr, is busy fighting crime from his wheelchair on NBC's Ironside...
Engaged. Rod Steiger, 47, Hollywood's intense, burly character actor (Al Capone, The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night); and Sherry Nelson. 36, his secretary. It will be his third marriage, her second...
...skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
...film begins with Nelson returning home after two years in the Mediterranean, heartily sick of the navy and hungry for Emma Hamilton's freewheeling affections. The admiralty hopes that after a few weeks of shore leave, he will be ready to re-engage the pesky French Admiral Villeneuve. Lady Hamilton insists that her feelings must come before the welfare of the Empire. Her wiles prove so alluring that Nelson opts for permanent shore leave at his country estate in Surrey. But then Nelson's Flag Captain Hardy (Michael Jayston) pops up to press Nelson back into service. Villeneuve...
Honor prevails. "I don't want only half a man, with the better half pining to be out at sea," Lady Hamilton finally decides. Nelson goes to sea and the fleet triumphs, but in the process Nelson is killed. He leaves Lady Hamilton as a "bequest to the nation," so that she may be officially provided for during the rest of her life. An epilogue provides the information that Nelson's dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than...