Discover the life and career of Raúl Juliá, the charismatic, award-winning actor and humanitarian known for versatile roles on stage and screen, from Shakespearean plays to Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Addams Family.
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AMERICAN MASTERS
PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS
A Conversation with America’s Poet Laureate: W.S. Merwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and accomplished literary translator William Stanley Merwin shares his thoughts on creativity, conservation, communication and more in A Conversation with America’s Poet Laureate.
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Merwin, the first Poet Laureate from Hawaiʻi, discusses his upbringing, his literary and philosophical influences, and his kinship with the Hawaiian culture in this wide-ranging one-hour interview. Set against the lush, serene background of his Maui home, Merwin expounds on the meaning of language, the practical purpose poetry and literature serve, Hawaiian myths and values, the future of mankind and much more. He also shares poems from various stages in his six-decade career, including readings from some of his 26 published collections of poetry.
AMERICAN MASTERS
Mel Brooks
This program profiles the larger-than-life yet very private comedy giant. He has never authorized a biography and has requested that his friends not talk about him, making his participation in this AMERICAN MASTERS special a genuine first. Interviews with Brooks himself and stars Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers among others are featured.
A CRAFTSMAN’S LEGACY
The Stone Carver
Host Eric Gorges visits with Walter Arnold. Walter is an accomplished stone carver who started his career at a very early age. Eric learns a little about what it takes to carve lime stone and marble. The history of stone carving and early days of Walter’s apprenticeship in Italy, including kicking around the same quarry that Michelangelo went shopping for his marble.