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...greatest peacetime migration in American history"--the movement of blacks from the rural South to the booming cities of the North between 1940 and 1970--and this Discovery Channel documentary series recounted it in the grave, eloquent words of those who lived through it. Another strong addition (along with pbs' Eyes on the Prize, Parts 1 and 2) to TV's ongoing chronicle of the black experience in America...
...They are the Sons of Seinfeld, and among the brightest of their number is Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, the little fable of half a dozen or so college grads. It's an upmarket Clerks, a less fraught Jeffrey, Barcelona with a faster pulse--or maybe Friends on PBS. Grover (Josh Hamilton) doesn't want his girlfriend Jane (Olivia d'Abo) to go study in Prague--she'll "come back a bug." Max (Chris Eigeman), a guy so jaded that every new experience is deja vu, falls in with cheeky Kate (Cara Buono). Chet (Eric Stoltz) is a professional...
...First Amendment when they had cut such a deal--a deal, he asserted, that would not be countenanced elsewhere at the news division. The new information so disturbed Morley Safer that he wrote a letter to Charlie Rose, apologizing for some of the remarks he made on Rose's PBS show a few days earlier. "I am dismayed that the principals involved in the story who had been so vocal on this issue misled their colleagues," Safer wrote...
...upmarket "Clerks," a less fraught "Jeffrey," "Barcelona" with a faster pulse or maybe "Friends" on PBS, "Kicking and Screaming" is a postmodern comedy of manners in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk about the imminent threat of becoming thirtysomethings. Writer-director Noah Baumbach's characters wear cool like a dinner jacket, says TIME's Richard Corliss; their offhand wit is so studied that their bull sessions seem like a final they crammed for. "But Baumbach is canny enough to salt the stew with poignance, so that by the end these attitude machines have become human beings, more than the sum of their...
...upmarket "Clerks," a less fraught "Jeffery," "Barcelona" with a faster pulse or maybe "Friends" on PBS, "Kicking and Screaming" is a postmodern comedy of manners in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk about the imminent threat of becoming thirtysomethings. Writer-director Noah Baumbach's characters wear cool like a dinner jacket, says TIME's Richard Corliss; their offhand wit is so studied that their bull sessions seem like a final they crammed for. "But Baumbach is canny enough to salt the stew with poignance, so that by the end these attitude machines have become human beings, more than the sum of their...