Ahazzi's lush production designs are acceptable, and Lee Holdridge's ornate score plumps up the action. The rest of the cast traipses through the routine meller looking earnest. Calvert as loyal Teddy does commendable work. Dickinson's mean mother-in-law gives the smart-looking actress a shot at a more mature role, and she's just fine. LaRue, a true beauty, remains in sharp control of the character, whom she even makes plausible. There's much, much more trite plotting and characters, including a third Fullerton son, drunken Greg (Tom Kurlander), and his wife (Natalie Radford), who's supposed to be bitchy because once she was engaged to Jeffrey. by Serena's now-adult daughter Vanessa (voiced by Barbara Tyson). Naturally the world's greatest fashion fotog Vasili (Michael Lowry) wants her for his lens and bed. Of course Jeffrey goes off to Korea, and Serena and daughter Vanessa (Cecille圜arroll), watched over by Jeffrey's medical brother Teddy (James Calvert), begins working for Manhattan's top modeling agent Dorothea Kerr (Barbara Gordon). That presumably proves to Mummy that she loves Jeffrey Mummy doesn't give a hoot. But pregnant Serena, loving her man, dumbly signs a pact giving up any claim to the Fullerton fortune. Brad Fullerton (Jeffrey Nordling) of those wealthy New York Fullertons headed by matriarch Margaret Fullerton (Angie Dickinson), who, loathing Serena for marrying into the tribe, tries buying her off. Italian princess Serena (Eva LaRue) marries Col. Vidpic adapted by David Ambrose from Steel's tome gives the audience the delicious impression that it's watching how the rich-rich suffer and that an outside femme's an intruder formulaic, handsome and vacuous, 'Remembrance,' directed perfunctorily by Bethany Rooney, fits the formula like a Paris gown. NBC, delivering a one-two punch with a couple of Danielle Steelers on succeeding Mondays, will enchant quantities of romance-loving women viewers 18-49.

Cast: Eva LaRue, Jeffrey Nordling, James Calvert, Michael Lowry, Tom Kurlander, Amanda Tapping, Natalie Radford, Cecilley Carroll, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Gordon, Gary Reineke, Elizabeth Sjoli, Tim Progosh, Ray Laska, Barbara Tyson, Paul Soles, Barclay Hope, Tabitha Lupien, Jason Logan, Sharon Heldt, Trevor Bain, Lloyd White, Chris Gillett, Barry Kennedy, Ray Paisley, Judy Sinclair, Susan Potvin, Odette Yustman. Agazzi casting, Jeff Meshel, Nelleke Privett (Toronto).

Cramer supervising producer, Dennis Hammer producer, Julian Marks director, Bethany Rooney writer, David Ambrose based on novel 'Remembrance' by Danielle Steel camera, Laszlo George editor, Janet Bartels-Vandagriff sound, Brian Day music, Lee Holdridge production designer, James J. Danielle Steel's 'Remembrance' (Mon.(2), 9-11 p.m., NBC) Filmed in Toronto by the Cramer Co.

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