Word: pbs
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...networks, where the individual voice tends to get lost in the Valium murmur of a hundred soap sellers, newscasters and tough private eyes. For the unique noise of a writer's whirring mind or an actor's seductive rhetoric, one could only turn in gratitude to PBS and its Great Performances and Theater in America series. Now there is another venue: cable. In their early years, the pay-movie networks dropped an occasional stage hit into their feature-movie schedules. Recently, with the proliferation of culture systems like CBS Cable and Hearst/ABC's ARTS, the trickle...
...potpourri of songs, sketches and buffoonery so good-naturedly crude that it becomes accepted as the quintessential wholesome family entertainment. Few in England remember music hall; in America, even fewer have heard anything beyond the comic ditties that used to serve to round out the hour on PBS after episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs. Yet with the passion of theater people for unearthing every oddment of stage history, an off-Broadway team has assembled Charlotte Sweet, an ingratiating pastiche that re-creates typical music hall turns and simultaneously concocts a conventional Victorian melodrama among the members of a particularly nutty touring...
Shown on national television by PBS, the film, says Bennett, was "unabashed socialist-realism propaganda" that should not have received public money. Bennett argued that the film presented a one-sided view of the Nicaragua story. One of the film's defenders, Wisconsin Humanities Chairman Morton Rothstein, says, "While I personally would have preferred a more 'balanced' presentation, I found it a stimulating presentation that shed light on a major public policy issue." But Bennett insists that the content and methods of Nicaragua Today "do not fall within the humanities...
OPPENHEIMER PBS, beginning May 11,9p.m. E.D.T...
...Hoskins is a galvanically repellent actor. Hoskins (seen on PBS in BBC's Pennies from Heaven and Othello) has a torpedo-shaped head attached to a bulldog's body. He moves, and barks out his dialogue, with the arrogant energy of Cagney and Robinson, but with precisely none of their charm. In The Long Good Friday, Hoskins gets to play a Little Hitler of the London underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show...