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
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–PBS officials Sunday kept telling us what a big deal it was to have David Geffen in the house.The media mogul had left his yacht and flown in from Sardinia just for this occasion, we were told. He’s notoriously press shy and camera shy, added Susan Lacey. She’s the long time executive producer
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Full disclosure: I’ve long had a big crush on Diane Lane. The 47-year-old actress joined Meg Ryan, America Ferrera and husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn at Sunday’s TCA press tour session for PBS’s Independent Lens documentary special Half the Sky (premiering Oct. 1 and 2).Lane and the others talked about their participation
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood this morning as PBS hosted a breakfast for early risers at the TCA press tour. On each table were several machine washable coffee thermos, compete with a little red knit sweater–just like Mister Rogers used to wear, only shrunk. Fred Rogers died in 2003 at
McGovern and MacLaine. Rahoul Ghose/PBS As one might have expected, Shirley MacLaine stole the show at the Downton Abbey press conference Saturday night at TCA. If anything, the 78-year-old Oscar-winner didn’t speak enough–and skipped the post conference social–but when she did talk she was blog gold. MacLaine will appear this coming season (beginning Jan. 6
“Stop tweeting my jokes, dammit!” Rahoul Ghose/PBS This is legendary comedian Dick Gregory. He’s mad I`m not at his TCA press tour session this morning. Calm down, Dick, I’ll be there soon.The summer 2012 Television Critics Association press tour kicked off this morning with Day One of two days of PBS. (The tour runs through
Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson at the start of their 30-year run It always surprises me that the kids don’t know Johnny Carson. My son is 19, born the year after Carson ended a 30-year run on The Tonight Show, and to him Carson is a footnote on The Simpsons. (A cartoon Carson is seen in
Seems Melissa Gilbert bonked her noggin on Monday night’s Dancing with the Stars. The former Little House on the Prairie moppet, now a sizzling 47, got thrashed around by dance partner Maksim Chemerkovskiy and had to get checked out at a hospital. The former Scree Actors Guild president is expected to remain in the competition.I’ve