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...never have to scratch again. Her recently completed, laudable BBC series on the life of Elizabeth I should follow The Forsyte Saga and The First Churchills to a long-playing appearance on U.S. television screens. The role lets her display more than neurotic lubricity. To accept it she piqued Director Russell by turning down a role as a nun-with an insatiable sex habit, of course-in his next film The Devils. "It had nothing to do with Ken," she says. "He creates a proper climate for actors, even if he doesn't care anything about them...
...SWEETMEAT SAGA by C.F. Gravenson. 241 pages. Ouferbndge & Diensffrey...
Composed of chips of life, snatches of dialogue, news flashes, commercial interruptions, sight gags and puns arranged to resemble an eccentric audio-visual TV script, The Sweetmeat Saga is a nicely transparent put-on about the disappearance of Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, twin rock superstars of the '60s. In keeping with the author's mythic intent, Pookie and Paul never appear. As the subjects of a nation-stopping search, however, their presence is never in doubt...
...profits of his immensely successful Dirty Dozen, probably because no studio would put up the money; MGM finally distributed the movie-but Lylah died a quick critical and box-office death, thereby insuring its banishment to quadruple bill drive-ins during leap years. It's a shame, for this saga of Hollywood is one of the most personal and intriguing American films of the past three years...
...First Churchills, a lusty historical chronicle of Restoration England, is the BBC's successor to The Forsyte Saga. Donald Wilson is again the writer-producer and Susan Hampshire the star. She plays Sarah Churchill, who, she concluded after researching through some 25 books, was "the most important woman in England who hasn't been Queen." The hero, John Churchill (John Neville), an estimable court counselor and the military strategist behind the victory at Blenheim, became the first Duke of Marlborough. (The late Sir Winston was his direct descendant.) The performances are marked by uncommon grace and gusto...