Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have strongly recommended that the deal for the release of all hostages should be comprehensive and complete and should not take place in stages, for fear some unexpected obstacles crop up," Shamseddine told the BBC...
Hooray for Hollywood. And at least a couple of cheers for Naked Hollywood, a probing, cynical, sometimes annoying but always fascinating documentary about the movie business, produced for the BBC and making its U.S. debut next week on cable. Producer Nicolas Kent got extraordinary access to a host of Hollywood bigwigs, from stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger to studio executives & and other behind-the-scenes brokers. The resulting six-part series has been described by Kent as "a study of a tribe in its native habitat...
...approaching 70 at the time she tells her story; her reminiscences are set off after seeing an obituary of Julia Wilberforce, who was nearly 80. Both women had achieved a certain fame when young, Julia as a sophisticated cabaret performer and Fay as a singer of ballads on the BBC. Their friendship did not begin then or, in truth, ever. They were thrown together because both married men who belonged to the same law firm and were forced to socialize. "I never liked her," Fay muses about Julia, "nor did she like...
...radio and listened to the BBC every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
...That worked well enough in the days when PBS was essentially the only alternative to the three commercial networks. But cable has made life more complicated. Such channels as the Arts & Entertainment Network and Superstation TBS have appropriated the kind of programming that was once unique to PBS, from BBC mini-series to Cousteau nature specials. As a result, the PBS audience has been eroded by nearly 12% in the past four years...