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...quite have been another Roots, but the TV event that swept the country last week was no less stirring. The Civil War, Ken Burns' beautifully crafted series, got virtually unanimous raves from the critics before it was telecast. Even so, few expected that an audience of great size would sit still for the 12-hour, five-night history lesson -- a lesson, moreover, with almost no film footage to enliven it, no Hollywood gimmicks to romanticize it and no network publicity machine to hype...
...version of Roots week, as Ken Burns' masterly 12-hour documentary drew record ratings and reintroduced viewers to a crucial part of American history...
...casting contretemps over Miss Saigon may have been resolved, but the reverberations continue. When American actor Ken Page was cast as God in the forthcoming London musical Children of Eden, the British actors' union prepared to lodge an official protest. How could audiences accept a Yank as the Almighty? Director John Caird countered that he had auditioned British actors for the part, and all were, well, inadequate. British Equity backed off, but an official noted dryly that the union "welcomes talented foreign artists working in our country even when they are required to play such an obviously British part...
...CIVIL WAR (PBS, Sept. 23-27). For five consecutive nights, Ken Burns' 12- hour documentary series will chronicle the nation's bloodiest conflict, using interviews, archival footage and readings by such people as Morgan Freeman and Jason Robards from documents...
Filmmaker Ken Burns, director of acclaimed documentaries on Huey Long and the Brooklyn Bridge, has collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...