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...style soon became associated with the macabre themes of his drawings. He was asked to illustrate the opening credits of the PBS television series "Mystery" as well as many other book covers. Gorey also designed the set and costumes for the Broadway show Dracula, for which he received a Tony Award...
...documentaries on the visual arts. Following a near fatal car crash in Australia last year, Hughes is back in full swing for TIME and is in the final stages of completing a six-part series on his native country that will run there as well as on PBS and the BBC. The series, he says, "is meant to get past all that Crocodile Dundee garbage and show what Australia is actually like." He is also working on a book about his car accident and ensuing battles with Australia's legal system and its press...
...course, there was then, as there is now, the seemingly universal tension between the artist's authenticity and the demands of his audience. This often led to regrettable consequences, like the Guy Lombardo schmaltz familiar to frequent viewers of PBS fundraisers and other lost souls. But remarkable, and remarkably lucrative, artistic freedom remained for those who were faithful to the omnipotent...
...PBS's Between the Lions warns viewers that it contains "extreme silliness that may not be appropriate for adult audiences." That's a little white lie on the part of this imaginative literacy series for kids ages 4 to 7 (weekdays; check local listings). In fact, well aware that parents are part of the kiddie TV audience whether they like it or not, PBS has created a welcome thing in the age of Teletubbies and Barney--a fun educational show for kids with enough sops for adults to avoid inspiring a wave of vasectomies and tubal ligations...
Lions does keep its earnest goal upfront, introducing kids to books through a fuzzy feline family that runs a library (this being civic-institution-loving PBS) and reads--and lives out--a different story every episode. But the real stars are the words that the program's Sesame Street-esque skits, songs and cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain...