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...stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure, in which kids are given a chance to live out fantasies. The Children's Television Workshop, which gave birth to Big Bird for PBS, is developing an animated show for ABC next fall based on David Macaulay's book The Way Things Work...
ASPEN: SAFE UNLESS YOU'RE STUPID (PBS): Documentary on the safety and beauty of the Aspen area. Narrated by Charlton Heston, with major funding by the Tourist Board of Aspen...
Bill Moyers avoids both extremes in a five-part PBS series premiering this week called Healing and the Mind and in a companion book that has already hit the best-seller lists. Level-headed, curious and skeptical, Moyers is the perfect tour guide. His question: Are our emotional lives entirely separate from our physical lives, or can one affect the other? To some degree, the latter is obviously true. Under mental stress, the heart rate climbs, and muscles tense. Conversely, breathing deeply and relaxing muscles can calm the mind...
...only as straight as an arrow," recalled a former agent last week on PBS's Frontline. "We had to give every perception that we were straight as arrows." In 1972, at age 77, the omnipotent FBI chief became the first civil servant to be granted a state funeral, at which he was eulogized by Richard Nixon in the Rotunda of the Capitol as "one of the giants . . . a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." But the year before, bedeviled by fallout from his efforts to tap the phones of journalists, the President had confided...
...ACTRESS ON TV SHUNS MAKEUP MORE defiantly than Helen Mirren. As London's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison, she wears every sag and wrinkle as if it were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective...