Backstage : stories from my life in public television

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    • Hull, Ron

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Backstage : stories from my life in public television

Ron Hull

(A bison book)

University of Nebraska Press, c2012

  • : pbk

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Born in 1930 in "Diddlin' Dora's" establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story-from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his "real" mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Before he even owned a television set, Hull produced a military TV show at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But it wasn't until he got a job in public broadcasting in Lincoln, Nebraska, that he truly found his medium. Hull has a lifetime of fascinating anecdotes to tell: working as a producer and director, encountering celebrities like John Wayne and William Shatner, befriending famous Nebraskans like writers Mari Sandoz and John Neihardt and actress Sandy Dennis, moving to Saigon in 1966 to bring television to embattled Vietnam, and working in Washington as director of the program fund for the CPB. Through it all, though, Hull's story is a tribute to his adopted Nebraska, a celebration of the people-stars and unsung heroes-he's known, and a moving memoir of the dramas of life, large and small.

目次

Acknowledgments 1. Where the West Begins in the Middle of . . . 2. The Mystery in Grandmother's Trunk 3. The Stranger in the Night 4. The Hulls and the Kayes 5. On Becoming a Storyteller 6. Front and Center 7. With Thanks to the gi Bill 8. Our Town 9. We Had a Dream 10. Shapers of the Dream 11. My Two Friends John Neihardt and Mari Sandoz 12. Bringing Television to Vietnam 13. Actors, Politicians, and Airplanes 14. Like Dragons Take to Maidens 15. Brief and Memorable Far East Encounters 16. Programming the Vietnamese Way 17. Goodbye, Saigon 18. The House that Jack Built 19. Back to Vietnam 20. David and Goliath 21. The Big Time 22. Sandy, Jean, and Phil 23. The Gang of Seven 24. The Missed Opportunity 25. Exciting Times, Stimulating People 26. Feeling the "Old Washington Squeeze" 27. The Peace Tree

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