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DIED. LANCE LOUD, 50, journalist, punk rocker and eldest son of the Santa Barbara, Calif., Loud family, whom PBS filmed for 300 hours for the groundbreaking 1973 documentary An American Family; of complications from hepatitis C; in Los Angeles. With its intimate look at family life, the 12-part series won the praise of Margaret Mead; the openly gay Lance, who wore blue lipstick and came out on the show, was its star. The Louds later regretted participating. Lance wrote, "Television ate my family...
...second, more controversial film was made by a young filmmaker who had won an Academy Award for a film on orphans in Russia. I was told that he had a film on the children in Gaza which was to be shown on PBS. We could see it before that airing. This again seemed interesting in order to bring an important social and political problem to the attention of our students. Gaza is a dangerous place. It is critical in the peace process. The film was grim. Indeed, it reflected the miserable situation in Gaza which is worsening...
...sets fall into two categories: too comprehensive or not comprehensive enough. Count this four-disc companion to the PBS music documentary among the latter. Sixty-eight tracks is plenty for an individual act but a mere freshman introduction to American roots music. With limited breadth, the curatorial choices are critical. There's not a false step on the Country and Blues discs, with room for both the obvious (B.B. King, Hank Williams) and the exuberantly obscure (Whistler's Jug Band?). But while the Cajun, Tejano and Native American selections are individually clever, their close proximity emphasizes similarity rather than...
...group has felt the sting like Evening With Champions. Another kink in their fund raising process was the apparent lack of interest from the press. Evening With Champions lost PBS funding in March 2001, and with news of airport security, strikes on Afghanistan and anthrax dominating the papers, a figure-skating show was not front-page material. “We couldn’t get stories written about us,” explains Mendez. “We’re an exhibition, not an athletic competition, so sports [sections didn’t] like us. Everything was backlogged...
...relationship between patients and their doctors that is still used in medical schools. Widely known as a muse for her husband, humorist and TIME contributor Calvin Trillin--in whose works she often appears as a voice of wisdom and reason--Alice Trillin also co-founded the innovative PBS show Behind the Scenes, featuring Penn and Teller, designed to teach preteens about creativity...