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A Documentary Series on the Kennedys Can't Match Past Programs

TV critic David Bianculli reviews "The Kennedys" a new documentary on PBS about the political family. He says it evokes not just their history, but the many television shows made about them.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 18, 1992: Interview with Eric Alterman; Interview with Eleanor Antin; Review of the television show "The Kennedys."
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Journalist Eric Alterman on the "Washington Punditocracy"

Alderman's new book is about mostly conservative pundits -- the likes of George Will, Sam Donaldson, and William Safire -- who appear on TV and write newspaper columns, affecting political discourse in this country. Alterman's new book is called "Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics."

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

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