Monthly Archives: October 2002

American Masters - Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces premiered on PBS in 2000. When we think of the silent film era, we think of actors like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Clara Bow, stars who created trademark personas and spent their entire careers testing the ...

The work of William Styron, which includes novels such as SOPHIE’S CHOICE and THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, has generated both praise and controversy over the past fifty years. Grounded in history and epic in sweep, his fiction has grappled with some of the most ...

He is an American icon; his voice as comforting as the American landscape, his songs as familiar as the color of the sky, his face as worn as the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps that's why Dan Rather suggested, "We should add his face to the cliffs ...

AMERICAN MASTERS Online presents an interview with "Willie Nelson" filmmaker Steven Cantor. Q: What first got you interested in doing a film on Willie Nelson? Steven Cantor: Willie is an American icon whose fascinating life story and day-to-day experiences had never been revealed in an ...