These are two completely unrelated questions about things I saw on TV.
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On some sitcom a character applies for a job and gives the supervisor his resume. The supervisor, a self-important person who sees himself as hip and a shrewd judge of character unmaliciously rips up the resume and says something like “Oh, I don’t believe in these things. I prefer to talk to the person and that’ll tell me what I need to know”. The candidate sits down and the supervisor asks him “So, start by telling me about where you’ve worked, what you did there and your education” (i.e. everything that’s on a resume).
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This one’s a lot further back. It was a TV movie set in 19th century America and I don’t know who was in it or what it was based on or much of anything else. My mother asked me to find out what it was as she’d like to see it again if it’s on DVD.
As well as she can remember it spans about a generation and takes place from before the Civil War to the days before the war. A man runs away with his brother’s wife, has several sons with her, and the sons get into fights with other kids who call their mother a whore. She believes that the brother (the first husband) later shows up many years later to ruin them. (I asked if she was thinking of East of Eden which involves some of these themes [a woman who sleeps with two brothers, is later a whore and has two sons] but she says this definitely wasn’t it and that among other things the woman never became a whore/madam but a society matron of sorts.)
Does this sound familiar to anybody? She thinks it was from the 1970s.