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...saga of Forrest Carter's book is a publisher's dream. The Education of Little Tree, a sensitive memoir of Carter's Native American childhood, was published in hard-cover in 1976 to little fanfare. Released in softcover by the University of New Mexico Press this year, the book now tops the New York Times paperback best-seller list, with 600,000 copies in print...
Where Homefront is loud and brassy, I'll Fly Away is quiet and relentlessly sober. Sam Waterston, with his somber mien and drooping shoulders, plays Forrest Bedford, a liberal-minded prosecutor in a small Southern town who is raising three children on his own. (His wife has been hospitalized after a nervous breakdown; Forrest, meanwhile, is growing friendly with a rival lawyer, played by Kathryn Harrold.) The family has just hired a new maid, Lily (Regina Taylor), who becomes the focus for an exploration of changing race relations at a crucial historical time...
...year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would prefer to remember...
...testy, as tight-lipped officers evaded questions as simple as what the weather was like over Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams was fending off more attacks than an Iraqi supply depot. "There is a beast of war out there, an elephant we're trying to describe," said a frustrated Forrest Sawyer on ABC's Nightline. "Based on the information we're given, we're about at the toenail range." Pentagon briefings, meanwhile, churned out sterile numbers (1,000 sorties a day, 80% of them successful) and confusing generalizations (Saddam's communications network was cut; then it wasn...
...Self-Censorship Issue: "Where do you draw the line?" ABC's Forrest Sawyer repeatedly asked Madonna on a nationally televised Nightline appearance...