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American Playhouse, acclaimed for its dramas on PBS, has changed its emphasis to making films for theatrical release. Already, 40 of its 185 productions have first played in theaters (e.g., Longtime Companion, Smooth Talk), and that number will rapidly increase: Playhouse plans 15 films over the next three years. PBS has broadcast rights...
...America, PBS is hoping for at least a mini-hit, and Random House has issued a handsome new Modern Library edition of the book. But can the series' success at home be duplicated here? It's hard to say. As Masterpiece Theatre host Russell Baker wryly suggests, many Americans, like himself, developed a terminal aversion to Eliot's writing after having to read Silas Marner in ninth grade. That is a shame. Middlemarch is truly among the greatest books ever written and is, as Virginia Woolf put it, "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people...
...shopping segment of the morning ends when Zlata's publicist announces that it is time to head for a taping of Charlie Rose's pbs talk show. Here again, Zlata holds her own, even when the usually unctuous host prods his child guest to defend herself against a New York Times review excoriating her book. Even when Rose asks Zlata, who is still struggling with English, if writing the diary was a "catharsis" for her. Returning to the green room, Zlata is delighted when Rose's next guest, novelist Paul Theroux, tells her she guessed the meaning of the term...
...School attended by nearly 500; feature articles in The New York Times. The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard magazine and many other widely and moderately-circulated newspapers and journals; appearances on national radio talkshows and local shows in Boston, New York and Chicago; a PBS documentary; and the admission last year by the Perspective that we killed homosexual activism on campus...
Smith burst into the national consciousness with Fires in the Mirror, which played off-Broadway and around the U.S., became a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for PBS. That piece took on a confined conflict between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn. Her new Twilight tackles the complex sociology of the Los Angeles riots. After a spellbinding debut there, it has been revised and restaged for an off-Broadway run starting next week, with a transfer to Broadway planned for April...