Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show is not even good soap opera. The backgrounds are beautiful and authentic looking-despite the fact that the film was shot in California-but the producers seem to find the atmosphere of 1936 as alien as 1066. Nor are they helped by the actors. Faye Dunaway (Simpson) flutters her eyes a lot, but she is not a woman for whom a king would give up his crown-or even a good night's sleep. Richard Chamberlain looks remarkably like old photographs of Edward, but he seems to think that the way a king shows his regality...
...dashing young king gives up his throne for a woman while half the world breathlessly watches and listens. The courtship of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson may be the romance of the century; but to the producers of this dramatized recreation, it is just another soap opera, with Windsor Castle taking the place of General Hospital, Edward standing in for the handsome doctor on rounds, and poor Wally playing the inevitable "other woman...
Portrait: The Woman I Love. Hour-long special recounts the 1936 love affair of England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice-divorced American, that led to Edward's abdication. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway star. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
...precise, detailed game plan that has become the U.S.C. trademark. The best evidence that McKay's intricate preparation works is his record at U.S.C.: 96 wins, 33 losses; six Pacific Eight Conference titles; five Rose Bowl teams; 23 All-Americas; two Heisman Trophy winners (Mike Garrett and O.J. Simpson); two undefeated seasons; and two national championships...
...English adolescent's fondness for American rhythm and blues. His most recent music stands on this as much as anything. "The Jeff Beck Group," his latest release, contains a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Gotta Have a Song," and a brilliant instrumental of Valerie Simpson's "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You." Also, Beck journeyed to Detroit several years back to do some sessions with the Motown house band that've become an underground legend. Nothing from the seasions was ever released, but critical consensus is that the mating of slick Detroit soul and lower...