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Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...
...voters have been called creaky (retired folks with time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell...
...least one major question remains unanswered: Who financed Yousef on his wide-ranging travels? Speculation has centered on the usual pariah states, particularly Iraq and Iran. But experts in and out of the various intelligence services warn against jumping to conclusions. Says Steven Emerson, the director of the PBS documentary Jihad in America: ``He is not high maintenance. The World Trade Center bomb cost less than $3,000, so the monies involved in carrying out these kinds of plots are not extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement...
TELEVISION'S GREAT POWER TO ENLIGHTEN has been surrendered to the crass hucksterism of commercial television that bombards us daily. PBS is the one bright spot in the vast wasteland. It may be broke, but it sure ain't broken...
...make it official--or informally official, as Dole put it. Though he had hinted broadly that he planned to run in an interview with David Frost aired earlier that night on PBS, Dole's more emphatic declaration on the highly rated Late Show--and his witty bantering with the host--was smart politics. ``Well, I'm going to run. For President. In '96,'' Dole said in his familiar growl. ``I thought about it a lot,'' the Senate majority leader added, ``and I think every country ought to have a President.'' The studio audience loved it. And loved it even more...