E. L. Doctorow
Also Known As: E.L. Doctorow
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Department: Writing
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Overview: Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-24
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Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
Overview: A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and television specials as well as interviews with Fosse, remembrances from his friends, and commentary by Gwen Verdon. A Dance in America presentation, broadcast as part of Great Performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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Salinger
Overview: An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Greenwich Village Writers: The Bohemian Legacy
Overview: For more than a century, New York’s Greenwich Village was home, playground, and inspiration to many of America’s leading writers and artists—Henry James, Edith Wharton, Eugene O’Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Cather, e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan, among many others. How these writers used and were shaped by the Village is the subject of this lively history, which includes readings and commentary by today’s Village authors E. L. Doctorow, Galway Kinnell, Grace Paley, and Louis Auchincloss.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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