Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jazz is a hundredfold more popular now than it was when I was younger," he says, "and I know more than I did earlier." Last week the bebopping hornman kicked off a two-week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless...
...Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months," she complains. Instead of standing on tiptoe, Seymour has kept herself quite busy, thank you, by globe-trotting from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary on the country, to Argentina and Spain, where she filmed El Tunel (The Tunnel) with Spanish Director Antonio Drove. "I played a woman obsessed with love," reports Seymour. Hmmm. Would "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" sound more macho in Castilian...
...Hearsts be unhappy? Five are listed among Forbes' 400 richest Americans, and the company is prospering. No longer synonymous only with tabloid sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took his advice...
...content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older the anecdote, the clearer in detail. Typical of her much analyzed years, she will forget the sentence before last but in the next will come up with a name from 1923 and a Gershwin lyric that...
...Most ethics become important when the roof falls in." So said TV Producer Fred Friendly recently as he plunged into the making of a PBS series designed to examine the tangled state of American ethics. His task could not have been more timely or more daunting, nor could his comment have been more appropriate. Large sections of the nation's ethical roofing have been sagging badly, from the White House to churches, schools, industries, medical centers, law firms and stock brokerages -- pressing down on the institutions and enterprises that make up the body and blood of America...