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...Play the King (PBS...
...other, with laser intensity. Redgrave is a magnetic Vita, a free spirit in pearls and riding breeches (she was the model for Woolf's Orlando). Though not as well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply not weighty enough to sustain the nearly 2 1/2 hrs. The words are beautiful...
...terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad bombed Israelis in recent weeks, U.S. officials vowed to clamp down on their fundraising apparatus in -- of all places -- the United States. "Jihad in America," the first look at the groups' U.S. activities, airs Monday from 9-10 p.m. EST on many PBS stations, despite protests and intense pressure from U.S. Muslim groups to yank it. The documentary begins with the World Trade Center bombing and winds through a 38 city support network. PBS, rattled by Muslim accusations that it's an unfair attack on the 6-million-member minority, is now giving Islamic...
Barbeau, the chef of Fullers, a Seattle restaurant, was featured in a PBS cooking special, worked with Julia Child, and has even cooked for the cast and crew of "Northern Exposure...
...came across a flyer advertising help wanted for Jonathan Demme's Swimming to Cambodia; she took a volunteer position on the editing squad. Demme obviously recognized her talent, because not long after he selected her as assistant editor for "Silence of the Lambs." Her experience impressed enough people at PBS to make her one of the 12 people out of 3,000 to be awarded a substantial grant to fund her first feature-length documentary film. "She Lives To Ride" (see review) opened one week ago at the Coolidge Corner theater. Stone half-seriously calls the PBS grant "one-stop...