Television

October, 1979

Round and round we go, in smaller and smaller circles. First there were films about film stars (such bombs as Gable and Lombard), then a plethora of TV "docudramas" about contemporary people and events (Ike and Blind Ambition) and, finally--full turn--a television movie about a television sitcom star who committed suicide just two years ago. Can You Hear the Laughter? which traces the short, unhappy life of comedian Freddie Prinze, is a valiant attempt to tell some painful truths about...