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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film stars Jane Fonda as a television news reporter for a Los Angeles station who wants desperately to break out of fluffy features and into hard news. Jack Lemmon plays the supervisor of a nuclear plant's control room and Michael Douglas plays the free-lance cameraman who secretly films Lemmon and his control panel during a near-disaster at the plant. Fonda and Lemmon are well-known supporters of liberal causes and are both outspoken opponents of nuclear power. Douglas, however, is not a political activist and as producer of the film, has a considerable financial stake...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: 'China Syndrome': A Nuclear Thriller Fonda, Lemmon and Douglas Star | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...unprecedented action last fall, Silverman dumped all seven of NBC's new shows, replacing them earlier this year with those more in his image. Most have been disasters, but none has failed quite so resoundingly as Supertrain, which cost almost $12 million just to pull out of the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...that show that will play to all audiences, and once in a while you hit it. All in the Family was one. We all appreciate that the younger audience has almost complete control of the set, and since you want to get the set on and tuned to your station, you make a special effort to get shows on in the early evening that appeal to a younger audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Talking Heads: A Triptych of Network Chiefs on Thrust, Appeal, Consensus, Risks, Holes, Fun, Meaning and . . . | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...structure erratically. He identified two of Lulu's customers with her former lovers but not the third. Where Berg set Lulu's grisly end in an attic, Chéreau was led by his monumental staging scheme to place it in what looked like an abandoned subway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Is the Toast of Paris | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...that the movie fails to engage us? There is the well-realized meeting between two curious and disparate minds. Added to this is a sweet courtship and real marriage between Field and a gas station attendant (Beau Bridges), a man with few brains but good, patient instincts. The problem lies in story development. There is something dreadfully predictable about the way the tale moves. When Norma Rae finally causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strike Busting | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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