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Like fine wine, 'Knots Landing' ages well
Providence Journal
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Providence, R.I.
While both Dynasty and Dallas lately have been resembling a Saturday Night Live parody more than a solid soap opera, Knots Landing has been busy supplying traditional soap opera fare - plausible and engaging plots about alcoholism, teenage drug abuse, adultery, divorce and the pressures of child rearing. Knots Landing kicked off this TV season with Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and his ex-wife Val (Joan Van Ark) enmeshed in a romantic triangle similar to the one in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. [Lawrence Kasha] says that the triangle plot stems from newspaper reports on similar nightmarish liaisons, including People Magazine's article on actress Sean Young's dangerous attraction to James Woods. One attribute universal to soap operas and a major aspect of Landing is a conniving J.R. Ewing-like character audiences love to hate. Filling the J.R. role in Knots Landing is actress Donna Mills as home wrecker-superschemer Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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