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...show appears to be an attempt to crossbreed Roots with Upstairs, Downstairs. It purports to tell the story of eight Administrations (from Taft's through Ike's) from the homely vantage point of Lillian Rogers Parks, a black maid whose bestselling 1961 memoir is the series' source material. Apart from an early and crippling bout with polio, Parks (Leslie Uggams) led a rather stable life. She met many famous people but played no role in great events...
...show's first five hours, the Chief Executives can mainly be told apart by their most mundane domestic foibles and the relative shrewishness of their wives. Taft (Victor Buono) ate too much. Wilson (Robert Vaughn) was cheap. Coolidge (Ed Flanders) kept animals in the White House, while Harding (George Kennedy) ordered toothpicks and spittoons for state dinners. Though the show's title promises a smattering of gossip, only that old whipping boy Harding receives less than reverential treatment. Instead of dirty linen, there's clean linen: in one scene we learn that Harry Truman (Harry Morgan) regularly...
...York City superstar Tony Price, a former schoolboy sensation at Taft, took control with his 20-ft. pop shots, en route to a 23-pt. night. The Quakers quickly ran off 12 unanswered points. As Penn got stronger, finding its shooting range, Harvard fell to pieces. The usually dependable Fine and Taylor lost their backcourt composure, committing 13 of Harvard's outrageous 30 turnovers...
...year Elvis Presley, who died only 16 months ago, will re-emerge on ABC in the person of Kurt Russell. Elvis Redux will be followed by an ABC-TV movie with Robert Duvall playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. This month, an all-star acting team will impersonate every President from Taft to Eisenhower in NBC's eight-part mini-series called Backstairs at the White House. In a bizarre turnabout, Producer Larry Jacobson, of American International Television, has persuaded 16 stars and sports celebrities, including Rosemary Clooney and Neil Sedaka, to re-enact turning points in their lives -everything from...
Paul Schoenstein's stock with his young son rose even higher when, during World War II, he was kept under surveillance by a couple of FBI men (the Journal-American had discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...