Word: zimbalist
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...brazen, even desperate, retooling of stock elements that have already become television cliches. Remington Steele (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), on the face of it, hardly seems more promising. But on prolonged acquaintance, it shows every sign of being the brightest, freshest television caper since Columbo. Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) is an ambitious, adventure-hungry private eye whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist...
...Zlotoff and directed by Jeff Bleckner, borrowed, with shrewd and subtle acknowledgment, not only a plot device but a character from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and did its source no dishonor. That is playing in the big leagues. But with the blithe charms of Zimbalist and Brosnan, Remington Steele is shaping up as championship stuff. -By Jay Cocks
...Much of it is composed of a series of introductions Greene wrote for an English edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain...
...more exposition of the obvious than anyone needs. Horror, as a genre, has lately become the province of functionaries who disregard such niceties as motivations, explanations and, for the most part, production values. It seems significant that The Awakening's only credible performer is young Stephanie Zimbalist, who throws herself zestfully into the part of a girl mysteriously possessed, but gamely fighting her lethal impulses. All others look badly in need of alarm clocks. Audiences will share that need...
...Club,* a Charlotte, N.C., clone of the 700 Club, to write President Carter and their Congressmen protesting "bureaucratic backroom harassment." Referring to a Federal Communications Commission probe of PTL finances, Bakker segues into a half-hour documentary on the club, the narration donated by Actor Efrem Zimbalist...