Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of good, gray Masterpiece Theatre dramas, this three-hour import from Britain's innovative Channel 4 comes like a bracing wind from the North Sea. No decorous Edwardian soap opera, no fine period costumes, no tasteful cello music. This is a crackling, contemporary political thriller, directed at headlong speed by Mick Jackson from a witty, clued-in script by Alan Plater. The dialogue is dense, often overlapping, sometimes unintelligible. Compared with such relatively simpleminded American efforts as the NBC mini-series Favorite Son, A Very British Coup seems revolutionary in its own right: a TV political drama...
Armed with a list of six items, TIME Moscow correspondent Ann Blackman set out last week to see what Soviet consumers experience when they try to buy even the most basic goods. On Blackman's list: beef, apples, carrots, sugar, laundry soap and toothpaste...
These days the life of recuperating Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 69, is more Hollywood soap opera than Greek tragedy. His countrymen are regaled almost daily with tattle about his highly public love affair with Olympic Airways flight attendant Dimitra Liani, 34, and contentious divorce from American wife Margaret, 64, after 37 years of marriage. Liani, not Margaret, tended his bedside during recent surgery...
Some of the changes seem laughably overdue. One daytime soap producer, observing that network censors no longer monitor his show regularly, says he is more likely to approve language that was once prohibited: "It used to be that you couldn't say, 'My God!' I let it go by now. You could say 'hell,' but you couldn't say, 'You go to hell.' I would allow that...
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...