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...project's supporters, foremost among them Mayor Coleman Young, say that with hotels and apartment buildings springing up at prospective People Mover stops, the system has already encouraged as much as $345 million in private development. They trust that when the construction quandaries are finally resolved, Detroit's monorail will emulate the success of similar systems in Toronto and Vancouver. George Pastor, president of Urban Transportation Development Corp.-USA, the company that is building the People Mover, claims the train will pay its own way within three years of start-up. "These systems are cheaper in capital and operating costs...
...earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials instead. TV news veterans will wince at the familiarity of that archetypal scene...
Murrow's antagonists are equally exaggerated. Coleman's Paley is a weak-willed and rather distracted chief executive, hardly the sort of man who founded and built a broadcasting empire. And Stanton, as played by John McMartin, is a cardboard corporate foil, forever jabbering about ratings, opinion polls and bottom lines. "Stanton is fascinated with numbers . . . profit statements . . . power," says Paley, trying to persuade Murrow to accept a vice-presidential position. "You know what I want? A conscience. Integrity...
...wanted to find a composer I could connect with about form,” Maxwell says. “Balanchine found Stravinsky, I found Coleman.” She notes that her favorite piece, “Trinity,” was composed for two dancers and a violinist playing Coleman’s music...
...very enticed because her dance has as many forms as there are in music, and I was really moved by the way she performed. She’s very natural and very creative,” says Coleman, noting that Maxwell sees no difference between her dancing and the music from the violin...