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GARRISON KEILLOR'S HOME (PBS, Nov. 29, 9 p.m. on most stations). Lake Wobegon's favorite son brings his folksy radio humor to TV in the first of three specials. Along with a Keillor monologue on the death of Buddy Holly, Bobby McFerrin offers a nifty a cappella version of The Wizard...
...Eastwick, it just may be a half-hour stint Nicholson did for, of all things, a children's video. He is narrator of The Elephant's Child, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's whimsical story about how the elephant got its trunk. Backed by the music of Bobby McFerrin, Nicholson gives a droll, spirited reading, wrapping his tongue around Kipling's sensuous words -- "the great, gray-green, greasy Lim-po-po River" -- like a gourmet savoring oysters...
...four years, many of us who graduates today took that banal, complacent recommendation from singer Bobby McFerrin to heart. On campus, we abstracted ourselves from the contradictions of daily life, trying to stay happy...
...blame Bobby McFerrin for his stupid song that everyone quotes when telling me to be less tense. I'm worrying; I'm not happy; thank you very much. I blame post-thesis seniors who try to out-do one another explaining how relaxed they are. And I blame my parents, who have given me both the genetic and environmental predisposition to get extremely, extremely tense...
BERNSTEIN AT 70 (PBS, March 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). A musical tribute, held at Tanglewood last August, featuring Beverly Sills, Bobby McFerrin, Betty Comden and many other admirers from the music world...