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...buzz about the famously misunderstood artist, who uniquely grasped the function of celebrity and mass media in modern society and redefined the barrier between art and commerce. This month Phaidon Press publishes a 15-lb., 624-page visual biography, including 2,000 images, many rare or unpublished. In September PBS will air a documentary by Ric Burns anointing Warhol as the most significant artist of the second half of the 20th century and featuring previously unseen footage of Warhol in his studio in 1962. Also this fall Sienna Miller will star in a biopic of Edie Sedgwick...
...Texas and the University of Missouri and spent three years in the Marine Corps before starting work as a newspaper journalist, initially in order to fund his fiction writing. He switched to television journalism after a decade in newspapers and moved to Washington with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1972. He began his collaboration with Robert MacNeil—a partnership that led to the 20-year run of the “MacNeil/Lehrer Report”—when the two covered the Watergate hearings in 1973. Lehrer has remained with the show, now called...
...also began having international days where they were required to have something weird," she recalls. (That may explain her son's fondness for items like duck testicles, an ingredient in one of the dishes at Del Posto, a $12 million Manhattan restaurant he opened in December with Bastianich and PBS chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Joseph's mother...
RECUPERATING. CHARLIE ROSE, 64, anchor of PBS's highly acclaimed Charlie Rose show; after heart surgery to repair a valve; in Paris. Rose, who had felt short of breath while in Syria to interview President Bashar Assad, hopes to be back on air in several weeks...
DIED. PHILIP KUNHARDT JR., 78, managing editor of LIFE who went on to produce such historical PBS documentaries as Freedom and The American President; in Chappaqua, N.Y. Kunhardt also wrote numerous books, including The Dreaming Game, about his mother, children's author Dorothy M. Kunhardt, who created the 1940 classic Pat the Bunny...