One of the best new offerings of the 2014 Fall TV season begins Sunday night: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The seven-part, 14-hour miniseries airs every night this week through to the 20th on PBS. It chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three well-to-do Americans who had a tremendous impact on the lives of
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Bill Carter started something on this press tour I can’t get out of my head. It’ all has to do with this cool book idea which involves gathering names of celebrities that can also be interpreted as sentences. Think Hugh Downs, or W.C. Fields, or Jeremy Irons. Or Ken Burns. PBS’s documentarian-in-residence and frequent
PASADENA, CA–That Ken Burns. He pays attention to detail.Monday afternoon, he was back at press tour for the umpteenth time, this season promoting The Address. At 90 minutes, The Address is about four score and seven years shorter than many of Burns’ epic docu-films of the past. That’s because it is based on Abraham Lincoln’s
Burns demonstrates how the bowl is placed BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Ken Burns says no, The Dust Bowl is not the thing he uses to cut his hair.The ever articulate documentary film maker (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) has always sported a Beatles ‘do, circa 1965. But The Dust Bowl is apparently not how he gets his