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ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN THE PLAYER knows how screenwriters are usually treated in Hollywood: either they're laughed off or they're bumped off. PBS'S AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful...
...campaign for the Reverend Peter J. Gomes' resignation as Memorial Church minister by reviving allegations by a former church administrator that Gomes had mismanged the church in the mid-1980s. They have taken their attack on Gomes to the national media--appearing in Time magazine, The Washington Post, on PBS and scheduled...
...truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April 6 on PBS. Crafted from old footage and fresh reportage by a team of veteran Nova and BBC hands, it is less a chronicle of hardware than a loving exploration of the sometimes rocky relationship between the first mindlike machines and the people who created them. Heady data for a generation that tends...
...Senate bill to provide a three-year authorization of $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...goes according to plan -- a big "if" when it comes to new technology -- broadcast history will be made in a meeting room on Capitol Hill this week. A new kind of television signal will leave the Bethesda, Md., TV tower of WETA, a PBS affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever...