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Parents have managed to develop a mysterious immunity to the virulent cheer of their kids' entertainment. Childless STEVE BURNS, 27, was not so lucky. As host of Nickelodeon's relentlessly upbeat Blue's Clues for five years, Burns put up with all manner of manic happiness, but last week he...
The massive series Ken Burns and his associates have shaped into some 17 1/2 hours of Jazz is full of stories, this one and hundreds of others, all setting out with passionate deliberation, and occasional anger, the history of America's finest, proudest indigenous music. Its 75 interviews, 2,400...
And there is Parker's pal Dizzy Gillespie, who said Bird was "the other half of my heartbeat," a formidable spirit and great artist who tried, and failed, to save Parker from the demons that drove and devoured him. Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was...
It is a vast and complex saga. Burns may be the only documentary filmmaker at work today who would be entrusted with the time and resources to reckon with it, but he is also one of the least likely to have brought it off. Whatever the considerable merits of his...
Neither does Jazz. This is the work of someone taking a long look in from the outside, and this, paradoxically, is its greatest strength. The whole series practically reels from the excitement of discovery. The history is fresh, the music is new to Burns, who, he has said, knew almost...