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DIED. Preston Jones, 43, late-blooming playwright widely hailed in 1976 for A Texas Trilogy, his saga of life in a one-horse West Texas town; following surgery for ulcers; in Dallas. Born in Albuquerque, big, burly Jones spent the last half of his life in Texas, working as a director, ticket taker and lead actor at Paul Baker's Dallas Theater Center, where his wife Mary Sue is second in command. Almost 40 when he finished his three plays set in mythical Bradleyville, Jones was discovered by Tennessee Williams' agent, Audrey Wood, who arranged for a Washington...
...Gioconda, it unfolded a Mediterranean saga of a mysterious letter, bitter rivalries and ominous threats. And that was only backstage. Pavarotti, who is conscientious and meticulously punctual when he finally gets down to business, clashed at rehearsal with his costar, Soprano Renata Scotto, over her lateness and somebody's fluffs (whether hers or his was part of the dispute). They even stopped in mid-aria to exchange words not found in the libretto. On the day of the gala opening, Scotto received a letter warning that a claque was planning to boo her. It was signed "Enzo Grimaldo," the character...
...best-known movie performances, Susan Sarandon scored as Brooke Shields' momma in Pretty Baby, a saga about a New Orleans house of you know what. Momma, who is 30, has pretty good gams herself. In her latest movie, Something Short of Paradise, Sarandon plays a feminist writer who wants love and security but not necessarily the marriage commitment that her partner, David Steinberg, insists on. Says Sarandon: "It's a pretty modern love story, which means everyone is fairly confused." In any case, the best shots of her are thigh...
...wish Jimmy Carter could have read your story on leadership [Aug. 6] aloud on his Sunday TV talk after returning from the mountain, instead of giving us that "peanut butter and jelly" saga...
...sharpening interest in the war. Novels such as The Boys from Brazil, The Eagle Has Landed and Soldier of Orange have found their way into the movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about to-even as he puts together yet another World War II saga. If World War II films have naturally been less numerous than books, they have also-ever since George C. Scott swaggered across the screen in Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World War II documentaries and dramas, ranging from the recent...