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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of his last bout of despondency. Though he did surfer over the divorce and worried about his ten-month-old son, those closest to Prinze minimize the domestic problem. Indeed, Prinze had been threatening suicide for more than a year. His morbid bent had led him often to watch a copy he had of the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into himself. But he would recover. He would joke, have fun, kibitz around. Then...
Lady Glencora, played by a dazzling Susan Hampshire, is the dominating character of The Pallisers, a 22-part British-made series based on Trollope's political novels; it begins next Monday, Jan. 31 (9 p.m. E.S.T.), on PBS. Hampshire is only one of many reasons to watch The Pallisers. In the grand tradition of The Forsyte Saga and Upstairs, Downstairs, the series is elegant, historical soap opera, complete with duels, lecherous dukes, love lost and found, intrigue in the Houses of Parliament, exquisitely smart costumes and roman tic settings amid the topiary...
...classes. But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that B was the motivation behind C, who was so important that he could not conceivably be strong-armed into oblivion. "It was the same...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...
...M.B.A. tournament is largely the creation of Gary D.J. Orosy, 23, a second-year Cornell student from Montvale, N.J., who likes to wear three-piece suits complete with gold watch tab and chains. He is given to statements like "They don't crown No. 2 in life...