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...hour "drama-documentary," co-produced by Britain's Associated Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, after will televise it for U.S. viewers on May 12, was intended as "a serious and concerned journey into the Arab world," in the words of U.S. Executive Producer David Fanning, But within hours of the broadcast, Saudi Arabia reacted with a howl of protest. The Saudi embassy in London denounced the film as a "sensation-seeking piece of fiction" and "an unprincipled attack on the religion of Islam." What seems to have particularly offended the Saudis, besides the vivid re-enactment...
Christopher Lydon, a newscaster for WGBH-TV, proposed the conference's most startling theory when he said that President Carter knew that militants would occupy the American embassy in Tehran if he admitted the deposed Shah to the United States for medical treatment. Lydon said Carter may have planned beforehand to use the hostage issue as a means of toughening his image for the re-election campaign...
Stephen Bailey, professor of Education, who helped to draft the report of the Carnegie Commission for the Future of Public Broadcasting, and Henry Becton, general manager of WGBH-TV, offered different perspectives on how public television could best adapt to meet the needs of the public...
...Morton (whom Bostonians will remember for his central role of Mr. Geeter in the long television series Watch Your Mouth, shown last year on WGBH) is giving the one outstanding performance in the current Tempest. With the splotchy face and long nails referred to in the text, Morton has worked out a fully rounded characterization. He crawls on his belly, he walks with a special bow-legged gait, and he indulges in puling vowels and animalistic exhalations of spleen. He knows how to emphasize the explosive consonants with which the dramatist peppered his part, and he displays a splendid singing...
...Physics is assembling Einstein memorabilia for a traveling show. The East Germans are sprucing up Einstein's old summer cottage at Caputh, near Berlin. Japanese Einstein buffs are planning a pilgrimage to some of his European haunts. Television too is paying homage with several Einstein specials, including the BBC-WGBH two-hour Einstein's Universe, starring Peter Ustinov as a wide-eyed student of relativity, and PBS's 60-minute Nova documentary Einstein. Above it all is the "Einstein Observatory," an astronomical satellite launched in November to investigate stars and other celestial objects that radiate high-energy X rays...