Over the next two years, Broadway Theatre Archive plans to release a total of 300 digitally restored adaptations of plays from PBS’ ‘Great Performances,’ ‘Theatre in America’ and ‘Hollywood Television Theatre,’ and such commercial network series as ‘Hallmark Hall of Fame’ and ‘Du Pont Show of the Month.’ “I have always been surprised that Broadway, in particular, has never successfully made the leap to television. The only way it did was through staging original productions for television. I was curious what that body of work was.” – Chicago Sun-Times 07/14/00
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“I OFFERED TO BE PEACEMAKER”
“Barry Fischer envisioned an intimate program for a few dozen high school and college students from around the country. He imagined a place where they could take classes in the rigorous Graham technique and learn some of her repertoire. The three-week program, scheduled to start this Sunday, was to culminate with a performance of excerpts of Graham works danced by members of the Martha Graham Ensemble, a junior company.” And then came this week’s call for a boycott from unemployed Graham dancers. – Washington Post
UN “PATRIOT”-IC
The British are protesting the gratuitous rewrite of history in “The Patriot,” but there are other reasons to worry about this movie. “Thanks to the sheer raving outrageousness of ‘The Patriot’ – which climaxes with the use of an American flag as a bayonet; which evokes Waco in a scene in which a church-full of militia sympathizers are burned alive by the British; and which peddles a right-wing agenda so outlandish it would make Rambo blush – you’d have to be a flaming, wood-paneled idiot to miss the movie’s politics.” – Toronto Star 07/14/00