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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A. B. Guthrie's frontier saga, These Thousand Hills (1959), stars Don Murray, Lee Remick, Richard Egan and Stuart Whitman...
...spite of the fights, verbal outbursts, and cries of anguish that punctuate The Crucible, Arthur Miller's play remains essentially intelligent and serious, never exciting or theatrical. Written during the height of the McCarthy era, just after HUAC's infamous investigation of Hollywood, Miller's saga of kill-crazy colonial Salem was unmistakably allegorical, its theme chillingly contemporary...
Some Second Thoughts. The strange saga of Svetlana actually began in December when the Russians gave her permission to fly to New Delhi with the ashes of her late lover Brajesh Singh, a member of a distinguished Indian political family and a Communist who had worked at a Soviet publishing house. In India, Svetlana visited the Singh family, scattered her companion's remains on the waters of the Ganges. Then, one day last week, she quietly slipped into the American embassy and flabbergasted American officials by requesting asylum...
...find this mixed bag of songs, some sentimental (including the title number, a sweetmeat from the Beatles), some revolutionary (Marat/Sade). Her songwriters include Leonard Cohen, a Canadian poet who makes good use of Collins' dark, low voice and powerful delivery; his Dress Rehearsal Rag is a five-minute saga of a has-been on "the long way down...
This same will toward unself-conscious candor goes into another popular series, a running serialization of the Forsyte Saga. As soap operas go, it beats the U.S. product on all levels-story, acting, direction. One recent episode centered on the scene in which Soames Forsyte, raging with jealousy, assaults his wife, crying, "Any man can have you! I can have you!" And he does, with the camera discreetly turning its head at the proper moment...