Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another, of Jacqueline Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill, Ava Gardner, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg and Candice Bergen. He has also been a long and close friend of the Kennedys'-"a kind of choric figure," in the words of one of his friends, to that family's tragic saga. In fact, so familiar is the Plimpton name, so ubiquitous the Plimpton presence, that there is something of a Plimpton backlash. Manhattan is the center of what amounts to a club of Plimpton haters, who simply cannot stand the thought of George gamely attempting some new and improbable feat...
Agencies frequently choose new fields that reflect their special talents, or the bent of the boss. Wells, Rich, Greene, mirroring President Mary Wells Lawrence's flair for drama, recently established a motion-picture company, W.R.G./Dragoti Ltd. Two films, Dirty Little Billy, a saga of Billy the Kid, and Spoiled Priests, about a Catholic priest who leaves his order, will go into production within the year. Most of the photographic, writing and editing talent for Billy will be drawn from the W.R.G. staff. Lois Holland Callaway's ventures are in keeping with the canny flamboyance of its president...
Another Remembrance of Things Past? Never. Another Forsyte Saga? Perhaps. As with Galsworthy, Snow's respectable achievement has been to make honest drama out of the undramatic stuff of compromise...
...Circle Game. The film espouses no ideology whatsoever, preferring to concentrate on the boy-meets-girl saga. Director Stuart Hagmann, making his film debut after a few years' training in television, seems to have decided that the dominant image of the film is Indians v. the wagon train, so he and his cinematographer lose not a single opportunity to have the camera track 360° around the principals. He stuffs the film with other round-and-round imagery (a carrousel, the pattern of the protesters on the floor) while the sound track drives the point home with constant repetitions...
Much is genuinely funny in Perera's saga of a guilt-ridden innocent abroad. Bendana has a mad. malapropriate sister, who feels "like a fish in Coca-Cola" instead of a fish out of water. He finds himself standing on the road before a brothel "tallying figures in his head, wondering uneasily if they would take a traveler's check." There are lapses, of course. Perera slumps toward collegiate humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection...