European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 on to Sarah Bottorff to plus it a important its literary a and you wont like it do you cringe at the sound of an upper crust British accent coming out of your to set if a series starts with a lot of classical music blaring at you do you run and stick in a video do the Mere words Quot from pcs Quot make you wish you were Back in the states with a Channel a changer in your hand Well the truth is Public television has produced a number of Brilliant series and specials that you would love a yes even you. Unfortunately brides head revisited is not one of them. Everything you dislike about Public to is Here in this series in Spades. You be got your effete. Aristocratic englishmen. You be got your historical perspective a this is set in the 1930s and 1940s a so that you be got to remember a lot of stuff from 11 the Grade history. You be got your stiff upper lip even in the midst of torrid love affair characters All Over the place. Brides head revisited is magnificent in its Way but its hard to take even for those of us who actually watched pcs by Choice Back in the states. And it was something of a mystery to everyone Back in 1982 when Britain s Grenada television sent it Over to american pcs stations that this adaption of a novel by the extremely British Evelyn Waugh a minor hit in the colonies. Well the scenery is wonderful and the action is All Over the map a in palaces in Yorkshire venetian canals crumbling monasteries in Morocco and aboard luxury Ocean liners Anthony Andrews under the Volcano and Jeremy Irons dead ringers the French lieutenants. Woman do a wonderful Job As the aristocrat Sebastian who s lost his soul and his More Plebs an Friend Charles who never had one. Puzzling out their Odd Friendship May be enough to get you through All 11 episodes a Charles affair with Sebastian a sister Julia Diana Quick May help too and the heart of the Story is fascinating the characters struggle to escape embrace and escape again from god and organized religion Landing in a world that has few morals and too Many world wars. What it All comes Down to though is very slow action and a Bunch of characters it s not too easy to identify with particularly when they re grown men carrying around Teddy bears you anti posers May think there a nothing wrong with these people that going out and getting a Job would t cure. Unfortunately the Way this series is us pro posers end up agreeing with you. An to perhaps wisely has put brides head revisited on sunday night after sports. You la need to Check daily television listings to find out what time it comes on each week. The series Heads to Southern european broadcasting in mid september what Peculiar programs they re sending us this week. First brides head revisited and now time express an american series that was on the air for a grand total of one month in 1979. Express starting saturday on an is a sort of a fantasy Island on tracks. Vincent Price and Coral Browne Star As a couple who Are apparent to living out their lives in the dining car of a train that travels through time in a Bunch of Mist taking on unsuspecting passengers and sending them off on time travelling experiences. Like or. Roarke and Tattoo on fantasy Island Jason and Margaret have the Best of intentions though each of the passengers has some crisis in his or her past that they get to go Back and change by travelling through time. In the first episode for example we have a Guy Steve Kanaly who s gone on to become Ray Krebbs in Dallas sent Back to see if he can prevent his Lover from getting on a plane that crashed years ago. Interesting idea and time express is not All that hard to sit through it has Only four episodes though so Don t get too attached to it. Armed forces radio and television service plans to replace it with the 1988-1989 version of time travel the hit Abc series quantum leap. The big chill the Black Hole and snoopy Are tiding seb watchers Over this week while they wait for brides head revisited to arrive. The big chill is the 1983 Glenn close William Hurt film that spawned years later thirty so meshing and other Young soul searching drama. Its a Little dated but Worth seeing it s on Friday the Black Hole has Yvette Mimieux and Anthony Perkins and a lot of outer space special effects though this too is a bit dated. It s a 1979 Disney film coming on saturday morning then there s my bodyguard with Matt Dillon a 1980 comedy about a High school kid hiring a bodyguard on Friday and this is America Charlie Brown in which snoopy and co. Discover the country on saturday. Finally or. John and ten years after Are among the musicians making up a two part special starting tuesday called we like the blues. We sure do. Lbs a this is America Charlie Browne airs on Southern european broadcasting saturday. To plus sunday july 15,1990inside to plus the Nielsen ratings 4 to briefs 4 to listings 5-8 video reviews 9 top 10 videos 10 movie reviews 10 top 10 movies 10 cafes movie schedule 10 staff editor Sarah Bottorff Art direction Sharon Kilday production Lisa Williams Denise Adams editorial assistance Louis Pierce Marian Hamilton on the cover Anthony Andrews left and Jeremy Irons Star in Quot brides head an if part series beginning on an to today. A stars and stripes publication
