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...Hearsts be unhappy? Five are listed among Forbes' 400 richest Americans, and the company is prospering. No longer synonymous only with tabloid sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took his advice...
...content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older the anecdote, the clearer in detail. Typical of her much analyzed years, she will forget the sentence before last but in the next will come up with a name from 1923 and a Gershwin lyric that...
Twelve years ago, Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and now better known simply as "the fat one," was asked if he would appear on a new movie-review program being produced by WTTW, the local PBS station. He was intrigued by the idea but not by the prospective costar: his archrival from the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel. "The answer," Ebert recalls, "was at the tip of my tongue: no." Nor did Siskel, now frequently referred to as "the other one," relish the thought of sharing a stage with "the most hated guy in my life...
Siskel and Ebert still do not get along, at least in public, but they have put that antagonism to good use. Their show, originally called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You and later Sneak Previews, went national in 1978 and soon became the highest-rated series in PBS history. In 1982 they moved to commercial syndication. Today, under the title Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, they reach an audience of 8 million, ranking in the Top Ten of all once-a-week syndicated shows...
...Most ethics become important when the roof falls in." So said TV Producer Fred Friendly recently as he plunged into the making of a PBS series designed to examine the tangled state of American ethics. His task could not have been more timely or more daunting, nor could his comment have been more appropriate. Large sections of the nation's ethical roofing have been sagging badly, from the White House to churches, schools, industries, medical centers, law firms and stock brokerages -- pressing down on the institutions and enterprises that make up the body and blood of America...