Word: docudrama
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...until recently the Phillips professor of early American history, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her book, “A Midwife’s Tale,” based on a diary kept by a Maine woman from 1785 to 1812. That book inspired a 1996 PBS docudrama, in which Ulrich herself appeared...
...George Clooney has secured his role as one of America’s permanent sex symbols. Clooney claims that his most recent roles—writing, producing, and starring in “Syriana” and writing, directing and acting in the journalistic docudrama “Good Night, and Good Luck”—are not attempts to shy away from this image. These politically-charged dramas demonstrate his desire, which he reiterated in a recent college conference call, to provoke debate over national politics rather than his dating status. Clooney gained over 30 pounds, seriously...
...Video A docudrama on legendary Newsman Edward R. Murrow has sparked a debate over its portrait of top CBS executives...
...upcoming HBO docudrama on Murrow's career has run into a storm of protest, most of it from the very people who knew him best. Their complaint is not with the film's admiring portrait of Murrow (played by Hill Street Blues' Daniel Travanti) but with its less favorable depiction of the CBS executives with whom Murrow had a sometimes rocky relationship...
What HBO's audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an 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...