4320 http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136 en-us American Masters, which pioneered the television biography genre, continues to offer insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life. © 2009 Rocky Mountain PBS http://www.rmpbs.org/resources/files/programs/100x100/136.jpg http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136 100 100 The author of Little Women is an almost universally recognized name. Her reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th-century Concord, is firmly established. However, raised among reformers and Transcendentalists and skeptics, the intellectual protege of Emerson and Hawthorne and Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker with democratic ideals and progressive values about women - a worldly careerist of sorts. Most surprising is that she led, under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, a literary double life, undiscovered until the 1940s. As Barnard, Alcott penned scandalous, sensational works with characters running the gamut from murderers and revolutionaries to cross-dressers and opium addicts - a far cry from her familiar fatherly mentors, courageous mothers and appropriately impish children. http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2207/rss http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2207/rss Mon, 28 Dec 09 21:00:00 -0700 America in the 1960s and 70s was in turmoil. The civil rights struggle, the war in Vietnam and the sexual revolution defined a nation in conflict. But at 10 o'clock every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched "The Carol Burnett Show." For 11 years, the wacky performer yelled like Tarzan and won - and sometimes broke - our hearts with her edgy, always sympathetic, characters. She could fall down a flight of stairs or hold her own in a duet with Julie Andrews. Yet, as with so many brilliant comedians, hers was a difficult childhood. A glimpse of something deeper and darker began to emerge in the dramatic career that followed her TV variety show. http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2008/rss http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2008/rss Thu, 31 Dec 09 21:00:00 -0700 America in the 1960s and 70s was in turmoil. The civil rights struggle, the war in Vietnam and the sexual revolution defined a nation in conflict. But at 10 o'clock every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched "The Carol Burnett Show." For 11 years, the wacky performer yelled like Tarzan and won - and sometimes broke - our hearts with her edgy, always sympathetic, characters. She could fall down a flight of stairs or hold her own in a duet with Julie Andrews. Yet, as with so many brilliant comedians, hers was a difficult childhood. A glimpse of something deeper and darker began to emerge in the dramatic career that followed her TV variety show. http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2008/rss http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/136-2008/rss Fri, 01 Jan 10 01:30:00 -0700