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City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday that Boston attorney Edward F. Lawson would lead the city's legal inquiry into Scheme Z. Healy also announced the appointment of a committee of area residents and city officials to investigate the controversial project...
...Lawson herself grew up next door to Mississippi, in a suburb of Birmingham. She dropped out of Tuskeegee Institute to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Later she moved to Washington, then spent two years in Tanzania helping bring together Africans and African Americans interested in the arts. After getting a master's degree in film from Columbia University and making "a few mediocre documentaries that definitely will not be shown on public television," Lawson got a job teaching film at Brooklyn College. She also served as executive director of the Film Fund, which financed independent documentaries, and later...
Given the long gestation time for PBS programs, Lawson's impact on the schedule will not fully emerge for at least a year or two. But an early indication came last month, when Lawson made public her list of current PBS series that will be funded for next season. Most of the PBS fixtures, from the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour to Nova, will be back, as will independently financed series like Mobil's Masterpiece Theatre. But Lawson decided to end funding for the children's show Newton's Apple and the documentary series American Masters after one more season. (Both series...
...Lawson's choices have calmed fears that she is about to make drastic changes in PBS's direction. Yet some PBS veterans are wary of her plans for sitcoms and other popular programming formats, contending that the quest for bigger audiences will turn PBS into a clone of the commercial networks. "A perfect program to me," she responds, "is one where the viewer never questions the value or importance. But it's also engaging and compelling, so that you feel you have to watch it. Entertainment and intelligence can live well together." Just how well, and how often, Lawson...
...Jennifer Lawson, public TV's first programming czar, wants to appeal to more than just the "Chardonnay and Brie crowd." But first she will have to tame the unruly PBS bureaucracy...