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Eric Porter, who was Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, re-creates another cuckold as Karenin, Anna's husband...
...young mother, Marie. After her artist lover commits suicide because he cannot provide for the family, she sacrifices all to survive with her two small children, and as her self-confidence grows, finds she can be perfectly content on her own. And there is something, too, in the saga of the feminist groupie, Pomme, although most of her polemical songs and free-spirited antics are pretty silly. But the value of all this lies in its novelty, not in its depth. For in all her feminist enthusiasm, French director Agnes Varda fails to delve beyond the difficult circumstances of these...
Television's Biggest Sleeper: ABC'S Roots, the eight-part saga of the black in America and the most successful show in history...
...China was free to demonstrate that "reality is complicated, varied and colorful" -even though true Communist art should reflect "the facts of revolutionary life." Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China. A kind of Chinese equivalent of Gone With the Wind, the novel was the basis of many film and theater versions until it disappeared from circulation in 1965. In a postscript to the new edition, Pa Chin, 73, has obligingly provided...
...York City Corrections Department did not classify the TV showing of The Godfather as a special event, but it turned into one. Just as the first segment of the four-part saga of the Corleone Mafia family began to get violent, the clock struck 10 p.m., lockup time in the city's jails. At the Queens House of Detention, 43 inmates protested and refused to go back into their cells, and extra guards had to be called to herd them...