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Idea Gambler. Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). "Volcano: Birth of an Island" presents stunning scenes of lava erupting from beneath the sea to form the island Surtsey, off the coast of Iceland. Preview of a new series under the general title "Challenge...
...doomsday talk reached fever pitch. Disk jockeys were spinning a hit calypso tune called Day After Day, which asks: "Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?" A book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, which gives a jolt-by-jolt preview of the disaster, was a bestseller...
...special preview of next season's series featuring Robert Young as a dedicated family physician. James Brolin plays the doctor's young assistant; Anne Baxter, Susan Strasberg and Lew Ayres are guests...
...simultaneously-and to increase his fee to $22 per assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas as "a land without style, a confused and chaotic society" obsessed with guns. Now he is also managing director of three suburban London weeklies acquired by his father...