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Product Description ------------------- The Star-Studded CBS Mini-Series Event Starring Stacy Keach, Stephanie Powers, Lee Remick, Robert Urich and Timothy Dalton Based on the Best-Selling Novel by Judith Krantz Witness three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal and bound to a single extraordinary man – Julian Mistral (Stacy Keach), the painter, the genius, the lover – whose passions seared them all… Maggy (Stephanie Powers) – the toast of Paris in the ‘20s. Her luminous was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary… Teddy (Stephanie Dunnam) – Maggy’s daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral’s dazzling love child… Fauve (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) – Mistral’s daughter, whose one dark secret drove her to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the ‘20s Paris of Chanel to the model wars of the ‘70s, this epic mini-series captures the scandal and explosive glamour of the worlds of art and high fashion. ALSO INCLUDES: New Interview with Stacy Keach, Introduction by Judith Krantz .com ---- Mistral's Daughter, based on the book by pulp queen Judith Krantz, hails from the golden era of nighttime soapy miniseries, the mid-'80s--when fans of drama, romance, scandal, and forbidden passion had a front-row seat during prime time. And what a prime Mistral's Daughter is! The miniseries stars TV powerhouses Stephanie Powers, Lee Remick, Stacy Keach, Robert Urich, and Joanna Lumley in a narrative that spans four decades of louche and luxe France and its art and fashion worlds. Keach plays the tormented--and tormenting--genius painter Mistral (based, Krantz says in an introduction to this three-disc set, on both Picasso and van Gogh), whose obsessions and appetites shape his brilliant art--and bewitch and bedevil the many women in his life. The plot revolves around Mistral's legitimate daughter and a love child, who carry on the flame of their overwrought papa as they try to both live up to, and live down, the Mistral heritage. But the plot, as with most Krantz novels, is really not the point. It's love, forbidden and otherwise; scandal in heaping as; fame, fortune--and leaping from one to the next (as well as from one bed to the next). The whole thing is fabulous, soapy fun, and deeply engaging, hour after hour. The boxed set also includes a contemporary interview with Stacy Keach and what he liked best about his character and the filming of Mistral's Daughter--as well as what he loved about the fading art form of the miniseries, and why it's so much fun as an actor--and as a viewer. --A.T. Hurley