Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this might have on the foreign delegations-the government last week stocked up stores and markets with huge quantities of normally scarce merchandise. As a result, Muscovites, in a near stampede, charged through shops buying up such scarce delicacies as lettuce, mushrooms, chickens, Czech glassware, Hungarian shoes and Indian soap...
Kolzak's powerful stage direction compensates for the flaws of his overambitious update. Naturalistic acting undercuts the philosophical pronouncements of each character, rescuing the production from pomposity or soap-opera sentimentality. David Moore's ultra-modern set is a nice consequence of this update; the usual drawback of a one-room set--visual boredom--is offset by diverse and dramatic lighting by Chris Stone and Ginger Thomson...
...skills as a serious dramatist, Harold Pinter, 45, seems to have patterned his private life after a daytime soap opera. Last summer the British author of The Homecoming separated from his wife of 19 years, Actress Vivien Merchant, 46, and took up housekeeping with Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, a whirling dervish of London society, a biographer (Mary Queen of Scots) and mother of six. Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser kept discreetly quiet about his wife's affair, but Merchant sued Pinter for divorce, and the new lovemates quickly assumed a low public profile. Lately, however, those profiles have ventured back...
Norman Lear, who gave Archie Bunker to the world, is now in love with Mary Hartman, an idea he thought up seven years ago. He does not see Mary as a soap satire; it is a way "to show humanity and comedy true to life in society-but perceived through a bent glass." He spends more time on the show than on any other project. In fact Lear may even be Mary. Says Chief Scriptwriter Ann Marcus: "If Mary sees an article in a magazine, that usually means Norman saw the article in a magazine." But despite suggestions from Lear...
...Columnist Bob Greene thinks that time slot lets viewers avoid "the merely hesitatingly slapstick news shows and instead enjoy genuine entertainment in the classic Chicago tradition: crude, snickering, dirty and easy to follow." Greene may be right. Mary is doing fine late at night. For a show with a soap-opera format, it is quite contrary. Quite contrary...