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Has total 5 videos

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Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate

2003

Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This 59-minute...

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Bart Cook: Choreographer

1986

Bart Cook became a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet in 1979. He worked extensively with Jerome Robbins, Associate...

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Barry Harris: The Spirit of Bebop

1999

This intimate portrait of modern jazz pianist, Barry Harris, becomes a historic walk with some of the best-known jazz musicians...

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The Paris Review…: Early Chapters

2001

In the summer of 1953, an expatriated trio of young Americans -- Peter Matthiessen, Harold "Doc" Humes and George Plimpton...

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James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime

2011

This 54-minute documentary traces the writer James Salter's lifelong love affair with France, unforgettably expressed in his 1967 masterpiece, A Sport...

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