A TV executive I know is fond of pointing out that an issue-oriented film like "Silkwood" or "Norma Rae" could not be made today, that nobody would finance such a project; his implication is that people who care about radiation and about the labor movement are now working for TV instead of for Hollywood. But I mean, we're just tossing that one around now. Rosamond became a simp, not a predator, and Casaubon was so desiccated in Patrick Malahide's characterization that his slimy reptilian side -- the side that was interested in Dorothea for more than just her footnoting ability -- was all but lost sight of. TV drama is also one of the few remaining art forms to continue the tradition of classic American realism, the realism of Dreiser and Hopper: the painstaking, almost literal examination of middle- and working-class lives in the conviction that truth resides less in ideas than in details closely observed. In any given week the show overflows with narrative -- stories about "skels," "mungo guys," junkies, rapists and thieves, and about the private lives of the cops who pursue them. Even when you tune in to the best shows you have to endure the constant onslaught of commercial interruptions, and commercials, it has to be said, have not improved over the years. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. And then he gets a case of a mother who tries to commit suicide, who happens to have a baby! New York City, perhaps more than any other place on earth, harbors large pockets of people who brag about being too busy to watch TV. Instead of slowing TV time down, as "Hill Street" did, and making it resemble novelistic time, a typical episode of "E.R." A New York Times bestseller! ZUCKERMAN (detective-like): That the girlfriend did it? And then he takes his coat off. He quickly became enthusiastically Americanized, educating himself by reading and writing and attending night school. (Bochco, now the chief guru of TV drama, has to his own credit such ground-breaking shows as "Doogie Howser, M.D." . Charlie Thomas Cox was born in London, England, to Patricia C. A. ZUCKERMAN (so totally skeptical that he may even be squirming a little): And that was an affair situation? Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. What's surprising is that by operating within the ancient conventions, and sometimes right at the very edges of them, these shows often manage a considerable degree of originality. In 1890 the American steel industry’s output surpassed that of Great Britain’s for the first time, largely owing to Carnegie’s successes. . ZUCKERMAN (on to something now): I think she'd kill me, not the hooker. Andrew Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Your B.P. bad . During his trips to Britain he came to meet steelmakers. In the case of "Chuzzlewit," great chunks of the plot fell out, and the characters, even one-dimensional types like Pecksniff, turned into caricatures of themselves; it was Dickens's illustrator, Cruikshank, rather than Dickens himself, who became the real inspiration for the series. Updates? Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world. I don't mean the tabloid exposes of Sally, Ricki, Geraldo and the rest. "N.Y.P.D. In 1974, he quit N.P.R. That should make you feel better right away. From about 1872–73, at about age 38, he began concentrating on steel, founding near Pittsburgh the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, which would eventually evolve into the Carnegie Steel Company. It has raised the specter of race riots in New York, and turns on the issue of a lone gunman versus a conspiracy of shooters. Many of them are lying -- at least a little. Andrew Carnegie made millions -- then made that money work for the good of other people. CHERNUCHIN (unruffled): Thinking that he was having an affair, she sees what he's really doing, kills the hooker and makes it look like he did it. In 1966, after completing school on an M.C.A. TV is actually enjoying a sort of golden age -- it has become a medium you can consistently rely on not just for distraction but for enlightenment. And Kelly basically says, 'What do you want to hear? ZUCKERMAN (definitely squirming now, perhaps anxious to break for lunch, which is what they will do in about two minutes): Ask your wife. In any case, it's generally the writers, not the directors or the editors, who have the final cut. 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