Versatile director Michael Apted's fondness for both documentaries and dramas has provided him with a balance and perspective matched by few of his contemporaries. Beginning his career with England's Granada Television first as a researcher, then director, notably of the long-running soap "Coronation Street", he branched into features at the helm of "Triple Echo" (1973), an off-beat wartime romance in which Oliver Reed falls for an AWOL soldier disguised as a woman. Apted displayed his enthusiasm for the music scene with his follow-up, "Stardust" (1974), chronicling the rise and fall of a