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...never not done M*A*S*H." Ask them what the show was, what made it unique, and you get a jumble of answers and impressions. From Alda: "The audience made a pact with us. We could be as imaginative and exploratory as we wanted-black-and-white newsreel style for 'The Interview,' surrealist in 'Dreams,' shooting in actual time or covering a whole year in one episode-because they knew we would never be wanton with them." From Morgan, a veteran of eight TV series: "M*A*S*H was about helping people." From Stiers...
Each Sunday night for the past three weeks, millions of French viewers have tuned in to a three-part, three-hour documentary in which Bardot bares herself for the first time while keeping her clothes on. Titled Brigitte Bardot Quelle Telle (As She Is), it splices together old photos, newsreel footage and film clips along with Bardot's own reminiscences and observations on the legend of B.B. In her finest performance, the woman of the world reveals an otherworldly quality of wistfulness and sadness...
Like the recent television docudrama based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Evita presents itself as newsreel-supported fact, leading to an occasional gap in credibility. While it seems reasonable to expect audiences to understand that some of Evita is fiction, for instance, the revolutionary narrator is superfluously identified as Che Guevara. As the program notes. "Che and Evita never met... when she was at the pinnacle of Argentine politics. Che was a student in medical school." Characters never even refer to Che by name. "I don't know why they didn't just call him Juan, or Roberto," Baker...
Four Friends is a retrospective lock right. It's an ass-backwards cavalcade of newsreel-type images lacking sound and fury, interspersed with gratuitous about ethnic groups, a kitchen sink toward detail, and a felling of amity that never gels...
...newsreel of our President as he was presented with a live Thanksgiving turkey. One couldn't be sure whether he would eat it or appoint it to his Cabinet...