First viewed : 4 September 1988
Dear me, I must have been struggling for reasons not to look at my accountancy text books to end up watching this trash. This was a US mini-series based on a Judith Kranz bestseller about a young woman who becomes head of a publishing empire in New York. The cast included slumming Brit Francesca Annis, the ultra-wooden Barry Bostwick and a young Juliane Moore with the obligatory big hair. Perry King played the slimy JR-style villain.
The main role of Maxine was played by Valerie Bertinelli who was attractive but just as bad at acting as Bostwick which I suppose gave their father-daughter relationship in the story a little added credibility. The elongated scene where she has her big idea for a magazine while rolling around the furniture in her apartment was completely unwatchable.
The other thing I recall is Bostwick getting pushed off a high cliff to his death by his envious brother King. In the next scene however we learned that he was "in a coma" which had us all falling off the sofa.
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