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...days when a big network mini-series could mobilize the country around its TV sets night after night seem to have vanished. Though none of this season's mini-series were outright bombs, all fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than...
...mandate of male weepies to smash one Hollywood cliche (in this case, that heroes are always handsome) in order to reveal several others (beauty is the beast; the good die young). Anna Hamilton Phelan's script neither sidesteps nor wallows in these homilies; it is notable mostly for the bathetic excesses it avoids. So is Peter Bogdanovich's directorial touch. Bogdanovich may be the last and finest avatar of the classic Hollywood style; discreet tracking shots, invisible editing, no camerabatics, no teary close- ups for emotional blackmail. Nobody is trying to make a masterpiece here. Mask has a sturdy, disposable...
...beginning of her research project, Anne feels certain that one area of her life is fixed and unchanging: "No one would ever know the passion she felt for her children. It was savage, lively, volatile. It would smash, in one minute, the image people had of her of someone who lived life serenely, steering always the same sure, slow course." Yet the more she learns about Caroline Watson, the more troubled Anne becomes. The artist had been, by any standards, a miserable mother. She had borne an illegitimate son in Paris and then, under parental pressure, abandoned...
...seven weeks after the session, the record has hit the stores and the airwaves, and shows strong indications of being the smash of the decade. At Tower Records' Sunset Boulevard store in West Hollywood, 1,000 copies were sold in two days. "A No. 1 single sells about 100 to 125 copies a week," explains Richard Petitpas, the store's singles buyer. "This is absolutely unheard of." Ken Barnes, editor of the trade magazine Radio & Records, says We Are the World was put on the air in its first week by 91% of the 256 radio stations that are regularly...
...quartet ABBA) and the piece's star, Elaine Paige. Chess has spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half a dozen European countries. Now Chess is readying to blitz America. Two versions of Bangkok have cracked the Top Ten of the U.S. record charts. Next year the omnipotent Shubert Organization is expected to bring the show to Broadway...