MACNEIL/LEHRER NEWSHOUR, THE {EXCERPT}: AIDS AND THE ARTS (TV)

Summary

This segment focuses on how the AIDS epidemic has affected the arts community. Featured are interviews with Arnie Zane, a dancer who had been diagnosed as having AIDS, the cause of his death in 1988; Bill T. Jones, who with Zane co-founded a modern dance company; editors Frank Meyer of Variety magazine and Richard Goldstein of the Village Voice Weekly; actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein; producer Joseph Papp; artist directors Mikhail Baryshnikov and Peter Martins; actors Richard Gere, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Sarandon, and Colleen Dewhurst, president of Actors' Equity. Also included are clips from Fierstein's Broadway production of "Safe Sex"; Showtime's production of "As Is "; and the off-Broadway production of "Beirut," with Laura San Giacomo. No commercials. (Co-anchor Jim Lehrer does not appear in this installment.)

Details

NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
DATE: July 27, 1987 7:30 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:19:01
COLOR/B&W: COLOR
CATALOG ID: T90:0219
GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries; News
SUBJECT HEADING: AIDS (disease)
SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1983-1995
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Les Crystal … Executive Producer
Lee Koromvokis … Associate Producer, Assoc. Prod. for segment
Robert MacNeil … Introduction by
Joanna Simon … Special Correspondent
Frank Meyer
Richard Goldstein
Harvey Fierstein
Arnie Zane
Bill T. Jones
Joseph Papp
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Peter Martins
Elizabeth Taylor
Susan Sarandon
Colleen Dewhurst
San Giacomo, Laura
Richard Gere