Word: pbs
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...more money and without the carpenter's apron. A Washington lawyer will broker a book deal, and he may also talk to agents in Manhattan eager to package this most mediagenic figure into a brand: big-ticket speeches taped to become one-hour specials; missions to Africa turned into PBS series, to do for the starving masses in the sub-Sahara what Harvest of Shame did for migrant workers...
...deliberation, and occasional anger, the history of America's finest, proudest indigenous music. Its 75 interviews, 2,400 still photographs, more than 2,000 film excerpts and over 500 pieces of supernal music are spread across 10 episodes, which will take up a good deal of the primest time PBS can spare from Jan. 8, when the first segment will air, to the last day of the month, when the final chapter, an accounting of the music's past quarter-century, a hopeful peek into the future and a fond envoi, will close everything out in fine style. The mighty...
...play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have to go the mute route. He gets to extend and explore all those feelings, amplify them and put them all onto what may be the longest documentary PBS, or any other network, has ever shown. Lucky him. Lucky...
...PBS Lehrer network wins the election by never calling it--thus never calling it wrong...
...chef as passionate about a cuisine as Bayless is about Mexican food? Now that America is beyond the "spaghetti-and-meatballs stage" of Italian cuisine, the award-winning Chicago chef is determined to move north-of-the-border cooks beyond the taco. Thanks to Bayless's 26-part PBS series, Mexico: One Plate at a Time, and this luscious new cookbook, he just may succeed...