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Other programs provide similarly elusive Kennedy retrospectives as well. ABC presented a lengthy review two weeks ago, and will televise a memorial service for JFK today. PBS will telecast "Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK"; local programs in Boston--like "Good Day!" and "Chronicle"--will provide similar examinations...
Savitch became increasingly isolated after the tragedy, and her career seemed to stall. She took a partial leave from NBC to host the PBS program Frontline, and later lost her Saturday anchor slot. There were rumors that she had turned to cocaine to fuel her still relentless pace. Friends deny it. "Work is my narcotic. I get high from it," she told a colleague. But some fellow workers wondered, notably after she slurred words and stammered on a recent Digest spot...
This Saturday, as the Metropolitan Opera turns 100 years old, it is wrestling with this question as never before. The centennial celebration, to be telecast live on PBS, is an extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life...
...years and more than $4 million went into PBS's representation of a war which lasted over 12 years taking as its toll over $150 billion, and more than 57,000 American lives. The 13 terse and instructive episodes start with China's domination in the first century and end with an assessment of the war's effects on Vietnam and the United States. Marked by a no-frills production, the footage and interviews speak for themselves. By presenting both old and new images, thoughts and perspectives, the film provides a detailed and provocative, and yet somehow ambiguous, treatment...
UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS PBS Masterpiece Theater, Sunday, 9 p.m. E.D.T. If the family ever dies, as radical social psychologists keep predicting, Public Broadcasting may go out of business as well. Among its best and most popular offerings have been series that examine that institution. First there were the Forsytes, then the Louds. Now there are the Bellamys, masters of an Edwardian town house in London and, to their way of thinking, masters of the world as well...