Law: Elizabeth Taylor vs.Tailored Truth

Legal test looms for TV docudramas based on the famous

Television's latest child is a bastard of sorts. Neither fiction nor straight documentary, the "docudrama" liberally tailors real people and events to fit the TV entertainment format. In recent weeks there have been two such shows based on the romance of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Earlier, Jaclyn Smith starred in a docudrama called Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In the offing are pseudo biographies of Singer Rosemary Clooney, starring Sondra Locke, and of Grace Kelly, played by Cheryl Ladd. Some of the subjects have been paid or are more or less happy with...

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