Word: two-part
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even by the often slippery standards of TV's other so-called docudramas, this two-part made-for-TV movie is preposterous. In four mindless hours, it purports to resolve the major mysteries surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. To do so, Trial garbles history with wild abandon, but unlike ABC's similarly reckless Washington: Behind Closed Doors, it never entertains...
...Martin," he says, "I doubt I would have been able to make a success of acting. He raised black people's aspirations and changed white folks' opinions." Winfield co-stars with Cicely Tyson (as Coretta) and Ossie Davis (as Martin Luther King Sr.) in NBC'S two-part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march, led by King, took place in Alabama, the cast and 300 extras were restaging it in southern Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role...
Next week the classical Christ-on-celluloid comes back full force in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, created not for the movies but for television. For sheer spectacle and expense ($18 million), nothing like it, religious or otherwise, has ever been attempted on TV. The two-part film will fill three hours of prime time on NBC on both Palm Sunday and Easter,* and it is well worth viewing. Director Zeffirelli, an Italian and a Roman Catholic, has brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming...
...peacekeeping" mission punched their way down the mountainous Damascus-Beirut highway last week to the outskirts of the Lebanese capital. Twenty-five miles to the south, Syrian armor drove to within range of Sidon, the only significant port and supply depot still in Palestinian-leftist hands. The two-part attack, if it succeeds, will reduce Palestinian-held territory to three enclaves cut off from ammunition and fuel. If that happens, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, "the war in effect will be over, though real peace will be a long time coming...
...BEGINNING of this month, The Law School Record published an article with a bold black headline reading "Chicago Firm Exonerated of Discrimination Claim." It was the first of a two-part series on a discrimination charge filed by Gail E. Bowman, a third-year law student. The essence of Bowman's charge was that a recruiter for a prestigious Chicago law firm made several insulting and racist remarks to her last spring during an interview for a summer...