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Masterpiece Theatre has had precious few masterpieces in the past few years, but this intricate, lacerating political thriller atoned for a lot of boring nights with Alistair Cooke. Ian Richardson played a conniving Tory leader who took us into his confidence as he schemed and blackmailed his way to the top. If only real political skulduggery were this much...
Masterpiece Theatre has had precious few masterpieces in the past few years, but this intricate, lacerating political thriller atoned for a lot of boring nights with Alistair Cooke. Ian Richardson played a conniving Tory leader who took us into his confidence as he schemed and blackmailed his way to the top. If only real political skulduggery were this much...
...radiant two-part adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's autobiography, French writer-director Yves Robert imagines family life in Provence as a storybook dream: loving parents, adventurous but obedient children, an idyllic refuge every summer. This old-men's view of youth tells us that memories are precious because life is short...
...some of the pathways it has taken -- than John Paul II. Devotion to Mary was ingrained in the Pope in his Polish homeland, where over the centuries the Madonna has been hailed for turning back troops of the Muslim Turks, Swedish Lutherans and, in 1920, Soviet Bolsheviks. The precious Black Madonna icon was a mobilizing symbol for the country's efforts to throw off communism, and is still a unifying image for the entire nation...
...open his coin shop. By 1980, with the price of gold soaring, the boy wonder enjoyed a statewide reputation. "He was fencing ((buying and reselling)) all the stolen gold in the area," recalls a local federal agent. "Kids were busting into houses left and right, stealing precious metals and lining up outside his store." By the time he pleaded guilty in 1985 to tax evasion, Saccoccia was reputedly a key moneymaking "associate" for New England's Patriarca Mafia family. After a brief stint in jail, say investigators, he started his laundering business...