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...sort of video phonograph that converts any TV set into a home movie projector and screen. The variety of available programs should be almost endless: Olivier's Hamlet, all kinds of other films (including instant home movies), Broadway musicals, or how-to series by Arnold Palmer or Julia Child. Owners will be able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby. Because the signal goes...
...latest acknowledgment came this year in the U.S., where she has emerged as, of all things, the first sex symbol of educational television (if one ignores Julia Child). Susan is Fleur, the exquisite arch-bitch of The Forsyte Saga, a role for which she last week won an Emmy Award as the best actress in a dramatic series. In most of the 40-odd other countries that have been enthralled by the greatest soap opera ever filmed, Susan is already a major star. In Norway a mob of 60,000 turned out to see her-in a town of only...
...Ship of Fools, a long, messy novel published in her 73rd year. A major bestseller, later made into a blockbuster movie, it took her more than 20 years to write. She says it would have been easier if she could have written it two columns to the page, like Julia Child's recipe book...
...rest of Losing Battles is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...
...going down. When I look at TV, ain't nothing in there I've seen before. Like in all the pictures with black people, they got to be some white guy who's his best friend. It ain't always that way. And that show Julia-she's just a nurse, and she's got all this fantastic furniture. Ain't that...