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...chorus of keening on TV news and variety shows threatens to extend the state mourning for this talk-show host to a Reaganesque six days. On CNN (your official site for the Carson reliquary), on PBS (The Jim Lehrer News Hour) and of course on NBC (where Carson's successor, Jay Leno, emceed a comely hour last night), the Grey Panther parade of Carson's octogenarian guests came, to pay a last homage to the man who had made their careers - and, only incidentally, to score rare face time on the medium that nurtured them. "His death," David Steinberg said...
...model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University of Nebraska was on Benny and the mastery of comic pacing. Was it called...
...whom had tiptoed toward the dumbing-down issue. "If you're selling hard goods - like soup or dog food - you simply can't afford to put on culture," he said. "Exxon, the Bank of America - organizations like that can afford to do it [by sponsoring 'Masterpiece Theatre' and other PBS shows of higher brow]. But they aren't selling hard goods, and that's what 'The Tonight Show...
...Burns' two-part PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (debuts Jan. 17; check local listings) rediscovers the story of an athlete who not only broke the color line but insisted, to white and black critics, that his color was irrelevant. The title of Blackness--the companion to last year's book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward--is no throwaway. Towering and obsidian-dark, Johnson was the kind of black man, critic Stanley Crouch says in the documentary, who makes whites "think they're in the presence of something aboriginal...
...going to keep the Venus Williams set. But two or three things are going to be different next year. We're going to be part of the PBS prime-time lineup on Fridays. I'm also going to produce three prime-time specials for PBS...