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...person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind of artful transformation, although essential to the work she does, is the least impressive of her gifts. In her On the Road pieces for regional theaters, in Fires in the Mirror off-Broadway and on PBS, and now in Twilight, she has created a new art form...
...PBS profile proves the contrary. As intelligent and unpretentious as its subject, the program touches variously on Tales, Maupin's Southern conservative background and his homosexuality. Most tantalizing are the segments that juxtapose book excerpts with interviews of Maupin's prototypes. Pam Delaney, for instance, doesn't feel she's really like heroine Mary Ann Singleton. "She showed up a lot more naive than I did," says Delaney, her open-faced smile a sweet self-refutation. Such moments whet the appetite for the six-hour adaptation of Tales coming to PBS this winter...
TIME: JUNE 15; PBS...
...activities as the disease progressed. When Tom died, Mark finished up, and when Mark died, the film was completed by a friend, Peter Friedman. The result is Silverlake Life, a wrenching documentary that won top honors at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, and will kick off the PBS summer documentary series P.O.V...
...well as sentence reductions in capital crimes, came up with the idea that McGhee should stage rock concerts to raise money for drug-treatment programs. Thus was the Make a Difference Foundation born. It has since put on major concerts in Moscow and the U.S., and is planning a PBS documentary on drug use and other problems faced by young people...