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...time for blacks to drop the crutch of racial victimization and rely on their own efforts to gain access to the American mainstream. The opportunities are there, he says. Blacks have only to stop hiding behind racism and take advantage of them. Last May he focused a PBS television special about Bensonhurst on that recurring theme. And next month a collection of his essays will be published in his first book, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (St. Martin's Press), raising him to center stage in America's tortuous debate over race relations...
PRESTON STURGES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER (PBS, July 2, 9 p.m. on most stations). Hollywood's brilliant burnout, who created a string of comedy classics in the 1940s, then faded into oblivion, is profiled in the first American Masters segment of the summer. If only for the wonderful clips, a don't-miss...
...concert halls. Last February he conducted the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony in the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth -- no mean accomplishment for a man who could not read a note. Next fall he will work with the same musicians in Suite for Kindergarten, a piece he commissioned. One PBS special was broadcast last Thanksgiving; another will air next year. Random House is currently offering a seven-figure contract for the next collection of his thoughts. And the Rev. Robert Fulghum bobs in his houseboat on Lake Washington in Seattle, staring at the words of Matthew...
...Carnes, the most important support for the sex-addiction idea is that treatment programs based on the theory often work. The family therapist, who is featured on Contrary to Love, a TV series aired on PBS, is working on a book analyzing the kinds of recoveries made by 500 sex addicts who have been in treatment for five years or more. Among the more successful cases is Burt Schneider, 48, an author from Tucson, who sought help after going through multiple extramarital affairs. "Up to a point I could control it," he says. "After that I couldn't." Schneider learned...
Actually the reverse is likely. Corporate arts underwriting oscillates with the laws on tax deductions, and the NEA controversy could reduce it. In any case, corporations prefer "safe" institutional culture: Ford puts Jasper Johns in the National Gallery, Mobil puts Masterpiece Theatre on PBS...