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...audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials instead. TV news...
...With only a couple of hours left before I was scheduled to join the official White House Pres corps again, I retired to type a few notes before settling into the gently listing bed. When my host heard that I was going to work he barked out in his broken English: "Oh, and we have...
...More space might be saved by using the figure 1 for "one," Sen. for Senator, Pres. for President. A good example: "Pres. & Mrs. Coolidge & Sen. Norbeck & wife were entertained by 1 Mr. Smith...
...Soundwalk CDs--a hip series of audio walking tours--are like movies you can stroll through. The Soundwalk brand features cinematic sound effects, cool music and colorful insights from neighborhood locals. Since 2002, Soundwalk has produced nine 50-min. audio tour CDs, including ones for the St. Germain des Pres district in Paris and discs that explore areas in New York City, including Chinatown and the meat-packing district. Says Stephan Crasneanscki, Soundwalk's founder: "Rather than bring my friends and relatives to places I love over and over again, I just decided to give them an audio guide...
...Ellington and Charlie Parker, the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young is considered one of the seminal figures in the history of jazz. From his first recorded solo in 1936 through his small group sessions with Billie Holiday and his memorable stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, Young (known as "Pres," short for "President of the Tenor Saxophone") created some of the most memorable recordings in American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester Young, and the result...