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DIED. Kenneth Clark, 79, genial and erudite British art historian, whose 1969 BBC (and PBS-aired) television series Civilization brought him transatlantic praise and popularity; in Kent, England. An unhappy only child of the idle rich, Clark spent a post-Oxford two years in Florence steeping himself in Renaissance art. At 30, he became the youngest director in the history of London's National Gallery. Between knighthood (1938) and the award of a life peerage (1969), Lord Clark wrote a score of books, maintained heady friendships (Winston Churchill, Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles...
...Miller has successfully met the diallenges of acting, directing and writing for the stage in such productions as "King Lear" and "The Goon Show." More recently, the 48 year-old London resident wrote and hosted the highly acclaimed BBC television series. "The Body in Question," which also aired on PBS...
...Pittsburgh Symphony. With Andre Previn, 54, at its helm, the Pittsburgh Symphony achieved a high profile, thanks to the PBS television series Previn and the Pittsburgh. Similar in sound to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony is a dark-toned ensemble that is especially good in the romantic showpieces and in the music of English composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a passion of the England-based Previn...
...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...
...with circulation hovering around 45,000. McManus one of the few official spokesmen for the Society--writes a syndicated column published in more than 100 county newspapers, although few big city papers run "The Birch Log." Recently, McManus has appeared on CBS's "Nightwatch" and is also scheduled for "PBS Latenight...