Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent PBS production of Titus, Andronicus (a.k.a. the Elizabethan Chainsaw Massacre) showed, a gutsy director can turn even Shakespeare's faults into virtues. Had Kilty focused his attention on energizing Labour's silliness with some more madcap excess, a merely promising production might have grown into greatness. As this is Kilty's second shot at the play, maybe the third time will do the charm...
Television would seem to have devoured the documentary film whole: in 90- second bites on the nightly news, in the lapel-grabbing journalism of 60 Minutes, even in the nature studies that now stud the pbs schedule. So why put nonfiction on the big screen? Because there are stories whose subjects, and filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco...
Hollywood is in the throes of a love affair with Arquette. Besides Susan, she is starring in The Aviator, a Christopher Reeve adventure movie; the first part of a PBS series, Survival Guides, directed by Jonathan Demme; this summer's Silverado, a Lawrence Kasdan western; and After Hours, made in New York City by Martin Scorsese. Not bad for someone with, as she puts it, "a chronic insecurity problem. As an actress I think I have a lot to learn. And I think I'm learning...
Then the walls came tumbling down. Two of the culture networks, CBS Cable and The Entertainment Channel, called it quits within a year of start-up. PBS's venture never got off the ground. Bravo, a pay service offering cultural programs and art movies, is still in operation but has only 109,000 subscribers. For most of the nation's TV audience, just one channel remains to carry the frayed banner of culture on cable: the Arts & Entertainment Network...
...PBS will send the data by satellite to its member stations, which will broadcast the information to consumers on the unused portion of the television signal. Subscribers will be given decoding devices that will convey the data from a TV antenna or cable to the personal computer. The service, to begin by the end of the year, will be available from 8 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and noon to 11 p.m. on weekends. PBS has not yet disclosed how much it will charge. The primary clientele will be financial managers, including Merrill Lynch's broker network. The broadcast signal...