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...with a commercial network. CBS signed him to make American Family, a drama pilot starring Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga and Raquel Welch, unusual in that it portrayed a Latino family whose kids are upscale strivers. CBS passed but let Nava shop it around. The show landed at PBS, which will air 13 episodes next season. Cable has filled in some of the breach too, notably on Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., TV's first Hispanic drama, returning in June. Creator Dennis Leoni says the story, about a family with roots in the boxing world, "was the perfect metaphor of Latinos...
...discussion was moderated by Gwen Ifill, an anchor on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
...prestigious ensembles as the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet, both of which commissioned new pieces from Morris this season. He is the subject of a just published coffee-table anthology of essays and interviews about L'Allegro. "Some of my dancers first saw the company on pbs when they were 11 and dreamed of dancing with us when they grew up," he says bemusedly. "It's a little strange, this whole thing of how the baby-boom people are now in power. Like kooky Bill Clinton gets elected President, and menopause has become something to be proud...
...hooked on robot fighting when it became a sort of geek tractor-pull attraction for the San Francisco-area nerdoisie in the mid-'90s. In 1999 they started mounting competitions for pay-per-view. (A similar program, Robot Wars, is a hit in Britain and is rerun on some PBS stations.) They shopped a series to cable networks, and Comedy Central bit, seeing a good fit for its young male audience. (Anyone who argues that demolition isn't comedy has obviously never seen David Letterman drop a watermelon off a six-story building...
Burns's 17 and a half hour long documentary began airing on PBS...