Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FUNNY GIRL. The many-splendored talents of Barbra Streisand not only recreate the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice but mark the shining birth of the theater's new girl for all seasons...
...afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours later he returns to the cells, insisting he has said nothing to betray his comrades, and the drama hurtles toward a shock climax that suddenly becomes less a saga of physical endurance than a test of one man's moral strength...
Funny Girl. If New York were Paris, Broadway could temporarily consider renaming itself the Rue Streisand. Some stars merely brighten up a marquee; Barbra Streisand sets an entire theater ablaze. Funny Girl-the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice which opened last week in Manhattan-has fireworks. Streisand has firepower...
What Makes Sammy Run? is the musical saga of Sammy Glick, who progresses, like a good heel should, from cutting corners to cutting throats. But since the book came out in 1941, something unsettling has happened to the heel; now the question is whether he should be scorned for his gall or admired for his How-to-Succeed spunk, shunned as a social leper or respected as a social dynamo. When the Sammy Clicks and Harry Bogens (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) first appeared in novels, the socio-economic climate was troubled, and heels were regarded as products...
Saturday, February 29 THE SAGA OF WESTERN MAN-1898 (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Third in a series of four specials centering on important years in history, this one about the winning of the West, the Spanish-American War, and Teddy Roosevelt...