Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startlingly similar to John Winthrop's famous Journal. Samuel's descendants apparently managed to maintain a unique historical proximity to many of the most prominent figures in American politicla history, from William Penn to FDR. Even more surprisingly, they left behind an invaluable set of documents to tell the tale...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS was a vehicle for Carol Burnett, who used the leading role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone as a stepping stone to television immortality. The show is based on the fairy tale of the princess whose royal lineage is proven when a pea lying beneath 20 mattresses disturbs her sleep. The show's one-dimensional fairy tale plot exaggerates the frothy, cute tendencies inherent in most American musical comedies. With minimal character development and a score which also lacks distinction, the play depends on a showcase of individual talents rather than the merits of a coherent story...
Radio broadcasts, the ubiquitous wall posters and rumors whispered to foreign diplomats offered new allegations in the unfolding tale of Chiang Ch'ing's evildoing. After an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Premier Chou En-lai in 1971, Mao's fiercely ambitious wife joined with radical Politburo Members Wang Hung-wen, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Yao Wenyuan to organize a second parallel government competing with the existing administration, while they plotted to usurp power. The gang is said to have tried to persuade China's armed militia to take over the army...
Alongside the Prince storyline the film develops the tale of Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), the leading actor in the show Prince "writes." Brown is under investigation by an ominous character named Hennesey who works in an agency called Freedom Information. (The blatantly fascist-trappings of Hennesey's character and office are an effective touch.) The eventual blacklisting of Brown, because he once marched in a May Day parade, which Hennesey recommends to the networks, provides the catalyst for the remaining events of the film...
Died. Edward E. Tanner III, 55, who, under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, wrote the 1955 bestseller Auntie Mame; of cancer; in Manhattan. Tanner was promotion manager for Foreign Affairs magazine when the eleventh publisher he tried agreed to print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...