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Shirley Jones is yet another sitcom widow in discreet heat in The Partridge Family, the saga of a Cowsills-like pop sextet. The show is carried by Danny Bonaduce, who has the showbiz cunning and Manhattan mouth of a David Merrick-in the body of a freckled, redheaded ten-year-old. Clap-Trapp though it was, the Partridge premiere never got as icky as another show-biz-set sitcom, the late (1953-65) Danny Thomas Show, which has now been exhumed as Make Room for Grandaddy. The same old cast is back, but in TV's Age of Relevance...
...Love Story (New York: Harper and Row, $4.95) is at the very top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard '58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathon and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie. Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this hope on the fact that his short novel (130 small pages of large type...
...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...