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...will fight Kallinger's extradition from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, where he is wanted on suspicion of Fasching's murder. But first the victims of the New Jersey crimes will face Kallinger and Michael in a line-up this week. If their identification is positive, the saga of the Kallingers of Kensington will take its grimmest turn...
EQUUS. The bizarre saga of a boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike. Galvanically theatrical, albeit specious in substance. The boy (Peter Firth) and his psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) give performances in the megaton range...
This is the adamantly delirious saga of Queen Christina of Sweden, a role once played by Garbo and now fallen, thanklessly, to Ullmann. She is wise enough not to try to capture Garbo's regal mystery. Ullmann instead goes after Christina's hobbled psyche and knotted libido. The script, however, does not necessarily move in the same direction as the leading actress. Indeed, it gives her very little to go on at all. Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina...
...fact, Franklin's shocking saga of mistakes and mismanagement had caused fears that the nation's banking system was shaky and that lack of public confidence might lead to a run on many banks. The end came surgically, as U.S. Comptroller of the Currency James Smith declared that Franklin, once the 20th largest of the nation's more than 14,000 banks, was insolvent...
Renaming the nether parts of his characters after the Supreme Court Justices who voted to allow communities to set their own pornography standards is one of Gore Vidal's gentler touches in Book II of the Breckinridge saga. It is an invidiously amusing camp fantasy which seems to have been inspired in equal parts by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Claude Rains' Mr. Jordan movies...