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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most interesting-sounding series on the list is W.E.B., a nighttime soap opera about-guess what?-a network. The series was created by Lin Bolen, a former NBC vice president, who was widely rumored to be a model for the Faye Dunaway character in the movie Network. Whether the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waiting for Freddie: Part 2 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

The tour leader for the pleasures of Cat and Mouse is a dapper veteran detective, Lechat (Serge Reggiani), who goes on a wild chase to discover whether a philandering millionaire (Jean-Pierre Aumont) was indeed murdered by his jealous wife (Michele Morgan). The plot is complex and at times ingenious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Joyride | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

There is, in fact, none of the pathos of the aging star about Mae, none of the desperate anxiety of the character played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. Dressed in a white pants suit, her lips painted a bright, girlish peach, she is jollity itself. The famous laugh, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

The title character is a female police inspector (Annie Girardot) who falls madly in love with an absent-minded Sorbonne professor (Philippe Noiret). Together these two whimsical types engage in such breezy activities as eating dinner, singing in the rain and kissing impulsively. In between these escapades, the heroine must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stale Pastry | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Beckett even wore pointed-toe patent leather pumps that were too small because he wanted to wear the same shoe in the same size as Joyce, who was very proud of his small, neatly shod feet. Joyce had been vain about his feet since his youth, when poverty forced him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illuminations of the Grotesque | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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