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...finance that has defied all laws of gravity that usually apply to the tube and become one of public TV's top shows, drawing 5 million viewers every Friday evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird. It has also enabled him to parlay his blend of authority and irreverence into a one-man miniconglom-erate that has both a name (Rukeyser Enterprises, Inc.) and an income that may exceed $300,000 this year...
...PBS, June...
...difficult to figure out what had gone wrong: unlike such other recent imports as Peter Shaffer's Equus and Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged, The Norman Conquests had been given an indifferent production. Miscast American actors clobbered the wit out of Ayckbourn's words. Now, through PBS's Great Performances series, The Norman Conquests has a second chance to make good in the U.S.?and this time it surely will. In its TV incarnation (produced in England), The Norman Conquests is not only funny but impossibly wise about sex, marriage, love and loneliness...
...become assets: they can make difficult material more accessible to a mass audience. It is hard to imagine Holocaust being so effective in another format. Were the show exhibited in movie theaters, no one would sit still for its 9½-hour running time. Were it produced for PBS, Holocaust would probably be drowned in a sea of historical minutiae. By creating their show for NBC, the authors have forced themselves to be equally responsive to the demands of both prime-time show biz and historical accuracy. They prove that such a marriage of commerce and art can bear remarkable...
Pavarotti sang impeccably and with authority, not an easy matter in a part that lies very high even for a tenor. But a week earlier he gave a recital at the Met, broadcast nationwide on PBS, which better presented both his musicianship and his personality. He is perhaps the best and certainly the most popular male singer now. His records dominate the classical charts...