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THE HUMAN LANGUAGE SERIES.

Three one-hour programs, broadcast nationally on PBS in 1995. On what language is and how it works. Five years in production, with fifty world class linguists including Noam Chomsky, plus George Carlin, Sid Caesar, Russell Baker, Stephen Jay Gould, Pat Oliphant, Lewis Thomas, philosophers, psychologists, former head hunters, aborigines, Eskimos, baseball players, preachers, circus performers, and many many children. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, CPB & PBS, and leading foundations. "This is serious fun," N.Y. Times; "Terrific, original piece of television..." N.Y. Daily News; "Entertaining and fascinating...the best sort of science reporting," Philadelphia Enquirer; "Super. Brilliant," Russell Baker.


FILMS FOR THE METROPOLITAN OPERA (1980-1986)

Five years of intermission features for opera broadcasts. Zeffirelli directing his now classic La Boheme (Emmy award); Pavarotti preparing L'Elisir d'Amore; Domingo jogging while Levine rehearses La Traviata; Teresa Stratas struggling with Lulu; Five Divas in Europe who did not attend the 100th Anniversary Gala (another Emmy). Young Wonders, about the children of Public School 75 as they wrote, produced, and performed their own opera. "The viewer will feel like cheering," N.Y.Times.


FILMS FOR THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (1970-1993)

Living with Pictures: the Walter Annenbergs at home with their art collection, before it came to the Met. In a Brilliant Light - van Gogh in Arles: one-hour film for 1984 van Gogh exhibition, broke all audience records on PBS for films on art. "Heavenly film, shouldn't be missed by anyone," TV Guide; "Genuinely revealing...remarkable," John Russell, NY Times; "Long, loving, detailed looks...moving, meditative." Washington Post; "Eloquent testament," Christian Science Monitor; "Riveting... Like the artist's life, this program ends too soon," N.Y.Post. Ming Garden: twenty-six craftsmen from China join American construction workers to build the Chinese garden courtyard, the Astor Court, at the Met. (Four awards.) Water Stone: the late Isamu Noguchi and Met technicians install his last sculpture - in the Japanese wing of the Met. The Portrait of Pareja: intimate examination of the Velasquez masterpiece. "Outstanding... a breakthrough, both technically and artistically." Theodore Rousseau, chief curator.

PARADOX ON 72ND Street. (1982)
A philosophical and people-watching film, about American individualism and an American street corner. With Philip Slater (The Pursuit of Loneliness) and the late Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell). For PBS, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Fascinating... as a pilot for an extensive humanities series, the film is an extremely persuasive presentation." John O'Connor, N.Y.Times.


EARLY WORK

Phase One (1965 to 1970)

Eight times around the world making films for government agencies and private corporations: The World Next Door for Pepsi-Cola; five films for Exxon, including Life in the Balance, on world hunger, narrated by Orson Welles (six international awards); The Dam at Nagarjunasagar on 30,000 men, women, and children, in India, building the world's largest dam by hand (five awards); A Celebration, for the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of International Education: Fulbright and Ford scholars around the globe.


Phase Two - science and culture (1970-1980)

George Washington Bridge, a film essay. "Spectacular photography...a gem," Library Journal; When Will They Find The Cure?, a research film for the American Cancer Society; Fantasy and Fugue, an hour with Rosalyn Tureck playing and talking about Bach, for CBS; The Festival Frenzy, on European festivals from Glyndebourne to Venice, and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, for ABC; Manhattan Street Band, on a multi-ethnic steel band, for the Mobil Oil exhibit at the Osaka World's Fair (three awards); Motel, theatrical short of play by Jean-Claude van Itallie (AFI grant, four awards); films for Sesame Street; The Heart of the Atom, on small particle physics, for the US Information Agency (two awards); Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, for the National Park Service; Life in a Tropical Forest, for Time-Life.


BACKGROUND

Columbia College; news writer for NBC;
free lance theater director and writer.