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...Britain, the BBC provides a complete range of TV programming-news, sports, music, religion, commentary and light entertainment. But the BBC shows that have found their way to the U.S. and turned a tidy profit for the corporation have been mainly polished dramas and documentaries, such as The Forsythe Saga, Elizabeth R. with Glenda Jackson, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America. The Shakespeare series, says BBC Programming Director Alasdair Milne, with no understatement at all, "is a vast project, the biggest we have ever undertaken...
There is the saga of Joe: "He was hardworking, imaginative, a natural leader--and since his father was president of the firm, Joe's future looked exceedingly bright...
...boys, instead of showing them for what they were: the most viciously self-destructive circle of drunks in Hollywood history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft, hinting that a pagliaccio was hiding behind the bulbous nose and the rasping whine-an insight neither Fields nor his friends are on record as entertaining...
...Mollenhoff's treatment of the Watergate saga is a unique interplay of "outsider" journalistic digging and "insider" knowledge and communication. This dual vision results in a broader perspective on the Nixon kingdom and its demise than either the analyses of outsiders or the recollections that those who sank with the Watergate wreckage have been able to provide. The book delineates Mollenhoff's participation in the Nixon regime and his subsequent disillusionment with it. Soon after Nixon began his first term of office, Mollenhoff left a distinguished reporting career, highlighted by a Pulitzer (1958) and the publication of five books...
...Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...