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...Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals. "It's fun, I guess," he said of his stardom. "But I'm dead set against...
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson's tenure as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been sponsored by the letter c, for controversy. In 2003 he became the head of the board, which oversees and funds public TV and radio. Since then, the Republican has fought what some conservatives consider PBS's liberal bias and been accused of partisanship. PBS has had a string of culture-war flare-ups, including a spat over an episode of the kids' program Postcards from Buster that featured two lesbian moms. Prominent Democrats last week called for Tomlinson's resignation, while some House Republicans tried...
...dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter. But the BBC version that begins next week on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre cuts brilliantly through the mists to create what may well be TV's dramatic event of the year...
...Payments allegedly made by the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for background reports on the political leanings of PBS guests...
...them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about shootings. These days the cops barely engage. The night before, Rowdy had spray-painted a two-story design of PBS, the Playboys logo, on the front of a building on Pico. It took him nearly three hours--from 2:30 a.m. to past 5 in the morning--and in that time not a single police car came by to stop...