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Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...
British Beginnings. This sort of generational drama, though in tamer form, has long been a staple of British television in series like The Forsyte Saga and, more recently, The Pallisers. The latter, based on the novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache...
...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. The author of the masterly One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) imagines a mythic despot in a fictitious South American country and creates a Kafkaesque saga with a Latin beat...
...easy to gauge how far Read's reach has exceeded his grasp. In less than 350 pages he has stretched to cover a family saga of three generations, on location in Poland and France, with side trips to Spain, the U.S. and England. He has encapsulated the causes and consequences of one depression and two wars, not to mention their fury. As a philosopher-novelist he has tried to see to it that all the Great Ideas are discussed: Christianity, Marxism, Art, Love, Innocence and Corruption...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...