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The Salt Lake Tribune | 1 week ago

Repertory Dance Theatre: Saving contemporary dances

...Duncan (1877-1927) or Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) are recognizable. So in 2009, when RDT received an American Masters grant by The National Endowment for the Arts to become the...

The Seattle Times | 1 month ago

'Visual Acoustics' zooms in on architectural photographer Julius Shulman

...when Eric Bricker began filming this appreciative documentary. It plays like a stylish episode of the PBS series "American Masters," embracing Shulman's jovial, occasionally egotistical...

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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 1 month ago

Women give Alcott’s life a fresh airing in film, book

...friend with whom she collaborated on a film by the same name that started airing last month in the "American Masters'' series on PBS. The docudrama, which Reisen wrote and Porter...

TV Squad | 1 month ago

Jay Leno and the missed opportunity

...the box thinker, and everyone since has followed his lead. I remember watching Carol Burnett on American Masters. She was talking about how nobody believed The Carol Burnett Show...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 2 months ago

Tuned In: PBS faithful to arts; NBC late-night soap goes on

...on PBS will include "Masterpiece: The Diary of Anne Frank" (April 11), "The Buddha" (April 7), an "American Masters" documentary on The Doors and a "Great Performances" production of...

Contra Costa Times | 2 months ago

Newhouse: Cooke to Charles -- best male singers

...and symphonic. I can't sing or play, but I sure can listen. And when I learned PBS will present an American Masters special on Sam Cooke tonight at 10, I planned my evening because...

thestar.com | 2 months ago

Hot Box: TV worth talking about

...that Penny believes in psychics (CTV, CBS at 9:30). The great Sam Cooke is the focus of a new episode of American Masters, which outlines the soulful singer's rise to pop stardom (PBS at...

L.A. Times - Music News | 2 months ago

'American Masters: Sam Cooke: Crossing Over'

...are given more weight than his artistry in "Sam Cooke: Crossing Over," a new one-hour documentary for PBS' "American Masters" series airing tonight on KCET-TV Channel 28 and on Jan. 26 on...

"At the height of his career, Dalton Trumbo was willing to lose everything for his principles and did," says Susan Lacy, series creator and executive producer of American Masters, a six-time winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series. "Trumbo is a portrait of a man steadfast in his beliefs. "

THIRTEEN's American Masters Traces Journey of Dalton Trumbo from Hollywood Success to Blacklisted Screenwriter to Academy-Award Winner in Trumbo Airing Wednesday, September 2 at 8 p.m. on PBS Business Wire Entertainment News | 6 months ago

washingtonpost.com | 2 months ago

TV preview: PBS's American Masters show, 'Sam Cooke: Crossing Over'

...be a lighthearted moment in "Sam Cooke: Crossing Over," which airs Monday night in another of public television's "American Masters" series, in fact underscores the dilemma presented in...

Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 2 months ago

Again, we see the singer more than the man

...of a depth and breadth not previously known in popular music. The man we see in archival footage on tonight's "American Masters'' broadcast, "Sam Cooke: Crossing Over,'' isn't just...

New York Post | 2 months ago

Don't miss

...did when first released in the early 1960s. In the portrait of Cooke (above right, with Muhammad Ali) on "American Masters," viewers will learn how the singer combined spirituality and...

Miami Herald - 5-minute Herald | 2 months ago

A look at the week ahead in the movies and on TV

...(No. 4 on my list). Sam Cooke: Crossing Over (9 p.m. Monday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- The PBS documentary series American Masters presents a biography of the singer who crossed gospel with pop...