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Williams, an Emmy award winner who appears on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and is the author of several books on the civil rights movement, was in town to speak at the Kennedy Library last night—40 years after George Wallace stood in the door of the University of Alabama to block its desegregation...
...WINNER: MTV Europe. B-level awards show held in Scotland turns into a throwdown. Hey, you don't think they manufactured...
DIED. ROBERT GUENETTE, 68, documentarian; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. He pioneered the use of re-enactments that appeared to be shot by on-the-scene news crews in such films as his 1971 Emmy winner They've Killed President Lincoln. His 1974 Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?, about the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman and Bigfoot, is the highest-rated documentary in TV history...
...Iranian Nobelist Iranian human-rights activist Shirin Ebadi, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, said there is "absolutely nothing incompatible or contradictory about Islam, democracy and political freedom" [Oct. 20]. The people in the West have heard these wise words and will, I hope, remember them. Understanding them is a big step toward peaceful coexistence between Islam and Christianity. Ahmed Mahmoud Namfullah Faisalabad, Pakistan...
Taken overall, however, Lorenzaccio is subtle even in its moments of seeming heavy-handedness—or, rather, it’s heavy-handed in a professional, evocative and functionally dramatic way. Animated by Scheib’s supreme sense of action, Lorenzaccio is a persuasive winner, an earnest effort at presenting its audience with complicated, challenging theater...