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...DOLL'S HOUSE (PBS, March 29, 9 p.m. on most stations). Ibsen's war-horse gets a powerful, unpatronizing new production in this Masterpiece Theater import. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) perfectly calibrates Nora's progress from docile wife to proto-feminist, and Trevor Eve avoids easy caricature as her husband Torvald. Superb...
What is public television made of? Snips and snails and Big Bird tales, many viewers might answer. For them, PBS is the home of Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and all that's best and most wholesome in American...
...Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan used a PBS show as Exhibit A in his attacks on President Bush for condoning "pornographic and blasphemous art" funded by the NEA. A Buchanan TV ad featured scenes from Tongues Untied, a documentary about the gay black life-style that ran on 114 PBS stations last July...
Anti-NEA invective has hit a nerve and thus proved a fund-raising tool for Senator Jesse Helms and other conservatives. Last week it became a rallying point for presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. Assailing Tongues Untied, a PBS documentary by a gay black who received $5,000 from the NEA via two intermediate agencies, a Buchanan TV ad intoned, "This so-called art has glorified homosexuality, exploited children and perverted the image of Jesus Christ...
UNFORGETTABLE, WITH LOVE (PBS, March 7, 8 p.m. on most stations). For anyone who didn't get enough of Natalie Cole and her dad on the Grammys (anyone out there?), this Great Performances special, shot during her recent concert tour, should fill the bill...