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Taxin said he composed their skit while watching television. "I wrote it during the Discovery Channel's special on man-eating tigers," Taxin said...
Between 1940 and 1970, 5 million blacks moved up north from the South, a mass movement described in The Promised Land, a five-part documentary series airing next week on the Discovery Channel, as "the greatest peacetime migration in American history." It was a phenomenon that went largely undocumented at the time. Many of the migrants-and the ones focused on in this lucid, moving documentary-came from the Mississippi Delta and headed due north, to the booming city of Chicago...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British conservationist and best-selling writer; of complications from a liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel island of Jersey. The self- described "champion of small uglies," Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British animal lover, conservationist and best- selling writer about the creature kingdom; of complications from a 1994 liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey. As a self- described ``champion of small uglies,'' Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife. In 1958 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, where he bred endangered species such as the Mauritius pink pigeon to return to the wild. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, Durrell (pronounced Durl) began writing about his life's work, filling books such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) with witty anecdotes...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...