He's been instrumental in shaping both country and pop music, yet his appeal crosses all social and economic lines. Sometimes he's called an outlaw, though it is Willie Nelson who brings us together.
For Lon Chaney, the art of acting was the art of continual transformation. His gift for playing a vast array of characters even made him the subject of a popular joke at the time: "Don't step on that spider. It might be Lon Chaney!"
The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory located in New York City. The school trains about 850 students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leading drama, music and dance schools.
Follow Alice Waters through a year of shopping and cooking, and discover the vision of an artist and advocate, who has taken her gift for food and turned it into consciousness about the environment, nutrition and a device for social change.
Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, "The Education of Gore Vidal" explores Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-side villa in Ravello, Italy.
