Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, as ABC is presenting it, the 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...
...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...
...robe falling like a black christening gown the length of the form. The church and courtroom farces are samples of the excitement Victor Budnick projects with his direction. Maintaining a rapid pace, Budnick sets one character group against another so that scenes expand and pop like a string of soap bubbles. The lighting cues are slightly off and the low-lighted scenes too dim, but these slips do not undercut the production's exuberance...
...indefatigable Stanley Kramer, and it ends up as an Eisenhower-culture fantasy; the Jewish lawyer gets to ask, in the final moments. Where all of Captain Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine, and he's fine: it's fun to watch Fred MacMurray and Van Johnson flounder in his midst...
...cameras because of a strike against CBS by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker...