Description:
Interview with Taylor Branch, author of "Parting the Waters" on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/16/1989
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Description:
Interview with author Thomas McGuane. He visits his family's old neighborhood in Ayer.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/20/1989
Description:
Parts of a series of interviews with John Updike. First interview is about his interest in visual art and his experience drawing. He comments on cartoons and modernism. After a long pause in footage, there is a discussion between Updike and Lydon, while the cutaways are being shot. The second interview is about Eastern European writers, during which he mentions Danilo Kis, Bruno Schulz, and Milan Kundera. Tape ends with an extended shot of Updike's book "Just Looking." part 1 of 2.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/21/1989
Description:
Studio interview with John Updike about Eastern European writers. He recommends Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis, although it might be hard to find in bookstores. He also talks about a Polish writers including Bruno Schulz. He compares Polish poets and prose writer. He talks about the work of Milan Kundera. He describes Eastern Europeans writers' situation and their often surreal styles sometimes resulting in "magical realism."
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/22/1989
Description:
Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/19/1989
Description:
Actor David Warrilow reads from works of Samuel Beckett.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/26/1989
