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It's a gray, stormy Tuesday in Manhattan--Sept. 11, to be precise--a day that can't help calling to mind a sunny Tuesday six years ago, a day that makes New Yorkers think about war and history, a good day, therefore, to be talking to Ken Burns.
Burns is quick to say that The War, his elegiac, exhaustive 15-hour documentary on World War II (PBS, debuts Sept. 23), is about that war, not today's. But he and co-director/producer Lynn Novick are not naive. "We're not unmindful that it will engage people with...
The film, which shows interviews with more than 40 surviving soldiers and civilians, mostly from four U.S. cities and towns, was conceived before Sept. 11, 2001. Most of the interviews were conducted after the attacks--which, Burns says, reawakened vets' post-Pearl Harbor memories--but before the invasion of Iraq...
Burns' 1990 The Civil War first aired in wartime too, just after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Today the most powerful statement of The War is its simple, brutal willingness to show what war looks like. Without wallowing in gore, Burns and Novick combed through archive and newsreel footage to...
Olmo's scars - the result of needle pricks, cigarette burns and scrapes - mark more than three decades of getting high on heroin. He says he first tried the drug at 13 and "was practically married to it" by the age of 22: "It became my total love. It was everything...