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ANIMAL PLANET Unlike those PBS documentaries on cheetahs that high school kids have long enjoyed watching while stoned, the programming on this network is high concept. There is still, however, some gnarly stuff. Crocodile Hunter tracks the boyish-yet-bad-ass Steve Irwin and his wife through Australia, where they pick up snakes and outrun emus. Even those who don't like animals--in fact, especially those who dislike animals--can enjoy Emergency Vets, a cinema-verite take on a Denver veterinary office. Rover and his owner dealing with a run-over paw make great TV. And perhaps the network...
...world, consulting outside experts and historians, and culling through the millions (yes, literally) of votes you've sent us by mail, e-mail time100@time.com and through our website time.com) We also again convened a panel of luminaries with Charlie Rose as host, which was broadcast on his great PBS show; this one, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, included Sheryl Crow, Rob Reiner, Anna Deavere Smith, our art critic Robert Hughes and Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstine. Then, in a series of occasionally contentious (but stimulating) meetings, we sat down to choose a final list...
...PBS documentary on the Tiananmen Squaremassacre, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace," was shownin the Yenching Library Lecture Hall...
...YORK: The suits at TIME's parent company could be forgiven a mild case of angina Tuesday when this story moved on the AP newswire: "PBS Announces Bid to Acquire Time Warner." Said the press release, "Current Time Warner executives Gerald M. Levin and R. E. (Ted) Turner will be encouraged to apply for positions in the new company." A quick scan of the story -- which professed to be "embargoed until 12:01 a.m., April 1" -- revealed its lighthearted intentions. But AP didn't see the funny side, and ran an "urgent" disclaimer advising readers to ignore the story. "Managers...
...ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and landscape architect Julie Moir Messervy. The films, to be shown on PBS starting in early April (following last month's release on CD of Ma's new recordings of the suites on Sony Classical), are only fitfully successful--stunts, one could argue. But their very ambition, their willingness to court failure, ought to be prized in a classical-music world obsessed with...