Word: pbs
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...years by moviemakers, but none of Saul Bellow's works have ever made it to the screen. The first exception will be Seize the Day. Bellow's tragicomic 1956 novella about the decline and foibles of a Manhattan salesman is now being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate...
...Cambridge area, Channel 44 will be providing coverage of the contest. PBS' broadcasting trio--consisting of Marty Glickman, Bob Casciola, and Sean McDonough--will take...
...PBS officials deny that Administration pressure influenced their decision. Barry Chase, vice president for news and public affairs programming, points out that the original series evoked numerous complaints from veterans and Vietnamese refugees, and he contends that the AIM show is a legitimate way to air some of those concerns. "I think a response mechanism of some sort is badly needed on TV," says Chase. "And there's no reason in the world why a producer ought not to respond to attacks...
Some have charged that PBS succumbed to at least indirect pressure from the Reagan Administration to telecast the AIM program. The film was partly funded by a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded by then NEH Chief William Bennett, now Reagan's Secretary of Education. The program was later given a special screening at the White House, to which PBS officials were invited. Such interest at the top levels of Government, critics say, can hardly be ignored by a TV service depending on federal funds for its existence...
Network news executives, while hardly sympathetic to AIM, are reassured by the fact that PBS is placing the show in a larger context. "I think the format they have ended up with is a justifiable one," says Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. Indeed, except for its length, the AIM program seems little different from -- or more troubling than -- the "editorial replies" run frequently by local stations or guest editorials on a newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply...