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...mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost his job at Harvard Law School after taking an extended leave to protest the lack of minority women on the faculty, is also working on a TV project for PBS that deals with the Declaration of Independence...
TIME: FOUR MONDAYS STARTING MAY 3, 9 P.M. EDT; PBS...
...journalism. In response to the 1991 Crown Heights racial disturbances (which erupted after a black youth was killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew), she re-created onstage the words of more than two dozen witnesses and participants, based on her own interviews. Adapted for PBS's American Playhouse (April 28), the 90-minute piece is riveting, a TV documentary as performance art. Smith precisely reproduces every word and stutter, the rhetorical bombast and silly yammerings. All seem to be aspects of the same human need for self-justification, yet Smith shows empathy for each...
...brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects were still being approached late last week...
HEDDA GABLER, A FIERCELY INDEPENdent woman trapped in bourgeois-marriage hell, keeps a set of pistols around the house, and it's only a matter of time before one goes off. The tragedy may be inevitable, but a new MASTERPIECE THEATRE production of Ibsen's classic play (PBS, March 28) is possibly the first to make it seem like a blessed relief. Fiona Shaw's self-absorbed, unsympathetic portrayal makes Hedda ditso from the start: darting, distracted gestures, nervous facial tics and a voice that drops to an inaudible whisper about every third line. Stephen Rea (The Crying Game...