Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some TV shows can be at least as educational for the performers as the audience. Actor Edward Herrmann, who will portray President Franklin Roosevelt in a Jan. 11-12 special titled Eleanor and Franklin, was less than two years old when F.D.R. died in 1945. "Until recently, I knew very little about him," says the actor, "except that my father didn't like him and my mother did." Besides Herrmann's show, which COstars Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, the small screen will soon show at least two more documentary dramas based on America's past. Arthur...
...plays a young sophisticate who happens to fall in love with an older woman - and married, at that. Despite the androgynous appeal of Husband Mick Jagger, rock star of the Rolling Stones, Bianca confesses to strictly traditional romantic tastes. "It's a very difficult role for me to portray; I have never fallen in love with a woman...
...Morocco filming The Life of Jesus, Director Franco Zeffirelli has assembled a decidedly ecumenical cast. To portray Christ at various stages of his life, he has chosen a newborn Berber baby, a two-year-old Arab boy, a five-year-old Jewish lad and Actor Robert Powell, 29, an Anglican. For the Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic director settled on Argentine-born Olivia Hussey, 23, who first starred in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet eight years ago. Her religious preferences? "This may sound a bit far out," she says, "but two years ago a medium told me that...
...wholly admirable, are an indispensable part of the American political system and should not be despised merely because they fail to transcend its limitations. But, as Richard Nixon used to say, that would be the easy way. Instead, whether out of gullibility or perversity, Steinberg has chosen to portray Rayburn as a statesman of principle, integrity and elevated vision--a poor country boy who, through hard work and trust in the Lord, grew up to be "by far the greatest" Speaker in American history, and a hell of a cracker-barrel philosopher to boot...
...reduced by your staff to a simple inaccuracy, I am not going to try to state what my play The Orphan [Sept. 15] is about. I will merely tell you in as simple a way as I can that never in my life have I written a word to portray Charles Manson as a "misunderstood victim," an "oracle," or a "messiah...