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...some Bartlett's and James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...
...Sons has widely been regarded as dated. But this year it has enjoyed two exceptional revivals, a PBS production starring James Whitmore and a staging by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that opened on Broadway last week. Both demonstrate that it is a timeless story of self-delusion. The Broadway version, directed by Arvin Brown, evokes an America struggling to believe in itself. At center stage are an old hand, Richard Kiley, as the machine-shop boss, and a stunning newcomer, Jamey Sheridan, as the son who has always sort of known about, but never allowed himself to acknowledge...
...PBS adaptation of Saul Bellow's 1956 novella Seize the Day stands apart from the usual run of prestige TV drama in several respects. First, for its unrelenting bleakness: the only possible relief from Tommy's mounting misfortunes is a bitter laugh at their Job-like extravagance. Then, for its particularity: the movie is a vivid portrait of a fortyish Jewish man on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the mid-1950s, yet it refuses to promulgate a larger message about Jews, New York City or life in the '50s. And finally, for the very fact that it was made...
This modestly budgeted effort, from the producers responsible for a fine PBS adaptation of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, uses its resources well. The New York setting, for example, might have been sketched more elaborately. But a single scene of Tommy hustling an irascible old man (Tom Aldredge) across the street before the light changes conveys all that is needed. Trying to squeeze his car into a tight parking space, Tommy huffs mightily as he turns the steering wheel back and forth while his front-seat companion, the indomitable Tamkin, rattles on: a perfect visual metaphor...
...despite one hell of a try, Dewitt never found "it" and the journey has been a failure that has haunted Dewitt for the rest of his days. Recently, prompted by a re-run of Woodstock on PBS, Dewitt decided try again, twenty years after the fact. Unfortunately, his Harley was long gone to the junk yard and his motorcycle operator's permit had been revoked after an unfortunate accident with an errant toddler, so Dewitt had to settle for a Schwinn ten-speed for transportation. Undaunted, Dewitt forged ahead: if some of the old ambience was missing, at least...