Word: pbs
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...urgency made her a superb choice to sing Mimi opposite Tenor José Carreras' Rodolfo in Franco Zeffirelli's spectacularly realistic new production of La Bohème at the Met-perhaps the most lavish setting ever created for Puccini's tale. (The production, which PBS is televising nationally this Wednesday on Live from the Met, surpasses in opulence even Zeffirelli's famous La Scala staging of 1963. In the second act, it seems that tout Paris is milling about the Café Momus...
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED PBS, beginning Jan. 18, 8 p.m., E.S.T. It is an odd book by one of the century's oddest writers, and even he had serious reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh regarded as the last gorgeous days of the British aristocracy. Now, in this lavish and beautiful eleven...
LIFE ON EARTH. PBS, beginning Jan. 12 a 8 p.m. (E.S.T.). In the beginning was the word, but David Attenborough and the BBC seem not to have been far behind recording the story of evolution from the primordial ooze to the uncertain present The result, a 13-hour television series, is PBS's gift for the new year, a fresh and often astonishing examination of a very old subject: life on earth...
...most ambitious dramatic series in PBS history, American Playhouse is an attempt to deal with that old and irritating question: Why can't we do these things as well as the British? The answer, if the Cheever play is an indication of what follows, is that we can, if we are true to our own talents and our own idiom. That, at least, is what a consortium of four stations-in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and South Carolina-are trying to prove. With a budget of $12.9 million, they have filmed or taped programs all over the country...
...SHADY HILL KIDNAPPING by John Cheever. PBS, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. (E.S.T.). In his own way, John Cheever has been writing about life on earth for the past 50 years. He does not roam very far-usually no farther than one of the tonier suburbs of New York City-but his concerns are universal. He was a logical choice, then, to lead off what promises to be another notable PBS series: American Playhouse, a 25-week program of original works by American writers...