Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominating character of The Pallisers, a 22-part British-made series based on Trollope's political novels; it begins next Monday, Jan. 31 (9 p.m. E.S.T.), on PBS. Hampshire is only one of many reasons to watch The Pallisers. In the grand tradition of The Forsyte Saga and Upstairs, Downstairs, the series is elegant, historical soap opera, complete with duels, lecherous dukes, love lost and found, intrigue in the Houses of Parliament, exquisitely smart costumes and roman tic settings amid the topiary...
When an aspiring songstress nervously faces her nightclub debut, where does she turn for advice? If she happens to know them, perhaps to Jon Peters and Barbara Streisand, producers of that weighty saga of show biz A Star Is Born. Dancer-Actress Lesley Ann Warren has done just that. A veteran of Broadway and such television series as Mission: Impossible, Warren is aiming for bigger fame in a "hot, sexy" song-and-dance act that opens this week in Los Angeles. Streisand has been bolstering Warren's courage with almost daily pep talks ("Get out on that stage, take...
Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...
With an all-star cast-Robert Redford, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery -Producer Joseph Levine claims to have already received enough backing from eager distributors to cover his $25 million outlay for A Bridge Too Far. The saga of the abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think...
British Beginnings. This sort of generational drama, though in tamer form, has long been a staple of British television in series like The Forsyte Saga and, more recently, The Pallisers. The latter, based on the novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache...