Candice Bergen and Larry Hagman in Sidney Lumet’s 1966 adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s 1963 bestselling novel “The Group.” THE GROUP begins as eight female friends graduate from college in 1933. Of them, Lakey (Bergen in her screen debut) leaves her school chums behind with the cushion of her family’s wealth and her art history degree to explore life in France. The rest of the group stay home, many of them marry or pursue new relationships, but life doesn’t necessarily take them in the direction t