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| The 70's
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| Four friends
graduate in the year 1970, the
start of a new decade. In 170 minutes,
this NBC-produced miniseries
hoped to capture a decade--and in
many ways, it did. The '70s
traces the lives of four friends
from their senior year at Kent
State (marked by the killing of
four student protestors by the
National Guard) through the era
of Watergate and Tang. At its
worst, it's a so-so soap opera
held together by fascinating bits
of historical trivia, giving
equal time to the issues of the
era (the Equal Rights Amendment,
the oil crisis) and inescapable
bits of pop culture (Mary Tyler
Moore and the hustle).
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| The characters are pretty
obviously engineered to plumb every angle
of the decade's cultural topography: the
young black National Guardmember who
deserts to Los Angeles in time to join
the Black Panthers and open a cinema
featuring hits like Shaft and Cleopatra
Jones, the sorority girl turned disco
queen turned California cultist, the
young intellectual woman who finds
feminism and abandons marriage in favor
of a career, and the conservative law
student turned Watergate burglar turned
pipeline worker turned environmentalist.
The acting's not bad and the story hangs
together, but the show is really at its
best when the soundtrack takes over,
allowing montages of memorable photos and
archival film clips to reveal (and revel
in) the real history behind the
melodrama. --Grant Balfour; Amazon.com
Review |
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| Michael Easton:
Nick; co-star |
Cast: Brad Rowe:
Byron Shales; Guy Torry: Dexter Johnson;
Vanessa Shaw: Eileen Wells; Amy Smart:
Christine Shales; Kathryn Harrold: Connie
Wells; Graham Beckel: Paul Wells; Laurie
Moglen: Wendy; Tina Lifford: Aunt Olavee;
Leslie Silva: Yolanda; Chandra West:
Elizabeth; Robert Joy: Hal Shales;
Jeanetta Arnette: Doris Shales; Michael
Easton: Nick; Robert Bailey: Jo-Jo (8);
Orlando Brown: Jo-Jo (12); Peggy Lipton:
Gloria Steinem.
Writer: Mitch Brian, Kevin Willmott;
story by Jeffrey Fiskin, Mitch Brian,
Kevin Willmott;
Director: Peter Werner; Executive
producer, Denise Di Novi; producer, Jim
Chory; associate producer, Lori Motyer
Production: NBC TV mini-series;
Filmed in Los Angeles by Di Novi Pictures
in association with NBC Studios. |
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