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Pioneers of THIRTEEN The ‘80s –Trusted Voice Airing Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 9:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN
Featured clips include:
Adam Smith’s Money World o Interview with Warren Buffett American Masters o “Martin Scorsese Directs” o “Unknown Chaplin” American Playhouse o “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” starring Alfre Woodard o “Longtime Companion” starring Bruce Davison o “Tales of the City” starring Laura Linney and Parker Posey o “True West” starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise Art of the Western World The Brain Brideshead Revisited o Starring Claire Bloom, John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier Brooklyn Bridge Childhood Ethics in America Good Morning, Mr. Orwell o Hosted by George Plimpton o Oingo Boingo performing “Wake Up (It’s 1984)” Great Performances o “Baryshnikov by Tharp” with Mikhail Baryshnikov o “Tap Dance in America” featuring Gregory Hines and Savion Glover Heritage: Civilization and the Jews o Hosted by Abba Eban Independent Focus o Jim Jarmusch’s “Permanent Vacation” o Ang Lee’s “Fine Line” o Spike Lee’s “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads” Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers Koyaanisqatsi The Lathe of Heaven Life on Earth o Hosted by Sir David Attenborough MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour o Interview with Ayatollah Khomeini o Interview with Fidel Castro Nature o “The Flight of the Condor” o “Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind” The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis o Interview with then-Senator John Kerry Sesame Street o Introduction of Elmo o “Monsterpiece Theater” o “Special Report: The Missing Cookies Affair” Shining Time Station o Hosted by Ringo Starr Style Wars The Times of Harvey Milk Tony Brown’s Journal o Interview with President Ronald Reagan o Interview with Tamalge Hayer, one of the assassins of Malcolm X o Performance by Eubie Blake Wrap Around the World o Performance by David Bowie o Comedy skit by Al Franken and Tom Davis
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