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...screen. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the magazine's March of Time newsreels were a popular movie theater attraction. Starting in 1985, TIME has helped produce annual television programs on its Man of the Year choice. Now we are about to take a more ambitious leap into the video world by joining forces with the Public Broadcasting Service's award-winning documentary series Frontline to produce television public affairs specials. The first TIME-Frontline production will air Tuesday, May 24. Titled The Defense of Europe, the one-hour documentary will examine the changing U.S. role in the NATO alliance...
...Europe and Washington and rummaged through material from Time Inc.'s extensive library. "One of the most useful things was having access to TIME's remarkable research files," says Sullivan. In addition, Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, an authority on arms control, topped off the show with a video essay linking European defense to global nuclear deterrence...
...video-verite style of America's Most Wanted is duplicated in The Street, a fictional series about Newark cops on the beat. The wandering camera and washed-out color give the syndicated show a home-movie look, and the plotless half hours are filled, realistically, with long stretches of small talk. But there are also silly interludes of outrageous comedy (a pair of cops cleaning up vomit in the backseat of their squad car try to figure out what the "little yellow things" are) and a rather smug assumption that anything the camera records, no matter how drably "real...
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...Broadway version of Chess is daringly different from London's gaudy expressionistic phantasm. That show's chess matches are displayed on 128 video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...