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...fully formed by the time I was 21 or 22." Indeed, his work, beginning with The Unstrung Harp of 1953, has been remarkably consistent: anachronistic, morbid and arcane from the first. Besides illustrating his books, Gorey's drawings grace countless engagement calendars and postcards, the animated opening sequence of PBS's "Mystery!" series, the covers of paperback classics published by Anchor Books in the '50s and '60s, dorm-room posters, and so on. If you do not think you have seen his work, you are probably wrong...
...night I nearly died closed off one of the best days fishing I'd ever had. It was late last May, and I was shooting a TV series about Australia for PBS, the BBC and Australia's ABC network. The crew and I had a day off in the old pearling port of Broome, on the Indian Ocean. I decided to visit one of my favorite spots on earth: Eco Beach, two hours' drive south. On that unblemished coast I fished with a friend, Danny O'Sullivan, who had taken up guiding after a long stint...
Before the discussion began, the audience viewed the documentary, which the rest of the country will see Oct.5 PBS when it airs nationally...
...monochrome. The small-screen picture of race has inevitably suffered, for while in cop shows and historical movies race is an "issue," only in our most intimate domestic and social arenas can we see it as a multifaceted fact of life. For that reason alone, An American Love Story (PBS, Sept. 12-16, check local listings), a 10-hr. documentary about an interracial family, is noteworthy. What makes it extraordinary is how it shows a family--period--dealing with mundane life and marriage, from work to school to health scares, and on the way interrogates racial categories in America from...
Emmy and her little brother Max (and with names like those, you can bet their folks are PBS donors) find a magic dragon scale and are whisked off to Dragon Land, where they encounter a gaggle of warm, goofy reptilian friends to whom they are just as strange as the monsters are to them. Besides fantasy and rich, hand-painted scenery, this animated series offers an encouraging message--don't be afraid of new situations--to a young audience exploring its own realm of freakish curiosities...