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...drama in Selma in March 1965 was the culmination of a decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying...
Roth's monastic schedule varies only a little when Actress Claire Bloom, 55, is in residence. The two have lived together since 1976 and occasionally worked together as well. His co-adaptation of The Ghost Writer appeared on PBS's American Playhouse in 1984, with Bloom playing a woman trapped in her writer-husband's hermetic life somewhere in New England. Roth and Bloom are hardly trapped; they now divide each year between Connecticut and her house in London. "We try not to be apart for more than a month at a time," says Roth. The author and the actress...
That bizarre sequence opens Tonight We Improvise, a play by Luigi Pirandello, adapted and directed by Robert Brustein for his American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Brustein also plays the impresario advocating auteurism; the cameraman is Frederick Wiseman, renowned for such PBS cinema verite documentaries as Canal Zone and Meat. Their monologues, just serious enough to be plausible -- Brustein actually does believe that directors have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying...
UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (PBS). Hitherto unseen footage of the great filmmaker at work. Assembled with uncommon care and intelligence, this entry in the American Masters series illuminated a genius...
Everything about mid-19th century Vienna was larger than life, from the caloric content of the pastries at Demel to the Emperor Franz Josef's mustaches. For its new Die Fledermaus, televised by PBS on New Year's Eve, the Metropolitan Opera has constructed outsize rooms in Johann Strauss's idealized waltzing city with such vivid realism that they could be sold today as luxury condominiums. Eisenstein's residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes...