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Movie Over the years, Sidney Sheldon has become a brand name for a particular kind of popular novel, the damsel-in-distress with an exotic background story. Its latest monster best seller, "Windmills of the Gods" comes to TV this week in a two-part adaptation that stars Jaclyn Smith as the damsel and features international terrorism as the distress. Smith plays a University of Kansas political science professor tapped by the President to become the new destitute-minded U.S. ambassador to socialist Romania. Her problem: a super secret and super powerful gang of international bad guys from both sides of the Iron Curtain who will stop at nothing to break up any East-West rapprochement.

Movie: Over the years, Sidney Sheldon has become a brand name for a particular kind of popular novel: the damsel-in-distress-with-an-exotic-background story. His latest monster best seller, "Windmills of the Gods," comes to TV this week in a two-part adaptation that stars Jaclyn Smith as the damsel and features international terrorism as the distress. Smith plays a University of Kansas political-science professor tapped by the President to become the new detente-minded U.S. ambassador to socialist Romania. Her problem: a super-secret and super-powerful gang of international bad guys from both sides of the Iron Curtain who will stop at nothing to break up any East-West rapprochement.

Movie: Over the years, Sidney Sheldon has become a brand name for a particular kind of popular novel: the damsel-in-distress with an exotic background story. His latest monster best seller, "Windmills of the Gods," comes to TV this week in a two-part adaptation that stars Jaclyn Smith as the damsel and features international terrorism as the distress. Smith plays a University of Kansas political-science professor tapped by the President to become the new detente-minded U.S. ambassador to socialist Romania. Her problem: a super-secret and super-powerful gang of international bad guys from both sides of the Iron Curtain who will stop at nothing to break up any East-West rapprochement.