LIZ & DICK DRAWS LACKLUSTER RATINGS

For a cable-TV movie, Liz & Dick, which aired on the Lifetime channel Sunday night, the ratings were OK — about 3.5 million viewers watched, according to Nielsen Research, making it the fourth-highest-rated movie of the year on cable. (The other three also aired on Lifetime.) But clearly, given the amount of publicity the movie […]

BRITISH DIRECTOR CLIVE DONNER DEAD AT 84

Director Clive Donner, whose films included The Caretaker, Nothing but the Best, and What’s New Pussycat?, has died in London at age 84. In its obituary, the New York Times observed that Donner got his start as a director to be reckoned with in 1963 with the film version of Harold Pinter’s play The Caretaker, […]