Word: teleplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...
...series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...
...felt no foreboding at all. This TV movie wonders just what he was capable of feeling. Hauer is a Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange, Nighthawks) with a sharp-featured face that emotion seems never to have touched. Thus he makes a perfect Speer, whom E. Jack Neuman's teleplay depicts as a young man not so much on the make as on the irresistible rise. He is a camera that, too late, became a witness...
With Scotch and certitude, he became Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee in the movie All the President's Men. Now, with legendary cigarette-holder, Actor Jason Robards is Franklin D. Roosevelt in an NBC-TV teleplay, F.D.R: The Last Year. The three-hour show, to be aired this spring, is likely to be memorable for two reasons. One is Robards' portrayal of the four-term 32nd President in his twilight, down to a remarkable re-enactment of Roosevelt's heart attack and death at Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that...