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- A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
- A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
- Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
- New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.
- Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
- While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
- The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
- Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.
- A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
- One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
- A smooth-talking man falls for a hardened columnist while helping a shy accountant woo a beautiful heiress.
- Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.
- A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
- George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie MacLaine, and somehow they hit it off, and just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
- A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
- Eight small-town teens travel to New York City for a one-in-a-million shot at stardom in a national dance competition.
- The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
- Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
- A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.
- Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
- A mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when older, the son prefers to play with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra. But Mama's wishes prevail and the son appears at Carnegie Hall as the composer-conductor-pianist of a modern horn concerto, with Harry James as the soloist. Frank McHugh is along as a Carnegie Hall porter and doorman, and Martha O'Driscoll is a singer who provides the love interest for Prince. Throughout the story a brigade of classical music names from the 20th century appear - the conductors Walter Damrosch, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski; singers Risë Stevens, Lily Pons, Jan Peerce and Ezio Pinza, plus pianist Artur Rubinstein, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz.
- One is too shy to start a relationship, other too unsettled to stay in one. Will their friendship help them to find the right woman for both?
- The story of a mentally handicapped middle-aged man and how he, and his elderly parents who must take care of him, manage to get along in New York City.
- Roger Daltrey and guests perform the music of Pete Townshend, accompanied by the Juilliard Orchestra.
- Jazz legend Count Basie and His Orchestra performs a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, with guests Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett and George Benson.
- Movie star and jazz afficionado Clint Eastwood presents some of his favorite music in an evening that celebrates a uniquely American art form as the soundtracks of many of his films are performed by some of America's hottest jazz musicians at New York's Carnegie Hall.
- Filmed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union Great Hall on April 28, 2014 during the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night. Judith Butler speaks of turning rage and grief into theory and reflection which is inspired by her 2006 book and was one of 8 people to speak that evening. Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" challenge the sex/gender distinction and develops her theory of gender performativity Butler's conception of gender performativity has shaped the scholarship of feminist and queer studies. Butler has also been outspoken on many contemporary political issues. She has been active in lesbian and gay rights.
- A concert given to celebrate the reopening of Carnegie Hall in 1987, after its renovation.
- Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his humanitarian efforts. Featuring songs and speeches by Harry's friends, family and peers.
- When an orphan raised in a secluded country hamlet is filled with wanderlust, she leaves her desolate surroundings to find her birthright.
- International best-selling author and media personality Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 'America's Rabbi' and world-renowned atheist and author Christopher Hitchens' in a hard-fought and electrifying debate on 'Is There An Afterlife?' The event, hosted by This World: The Values Network (www.thisworld.us), was moderated by author and actress Lisa Oz. Shmuley and Hitchens took no prisoners as they fought it out over the meaning of life and whether life ends with the termination of the body. This was their fourth debate and by all accounts the most illuminating, dynamic, and memorable. A fantastic mix of intellectual rigor, humor and spontaneity.
- Maestro Arthur Fiedler leads the Boston Pops Orchestra in a special concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall, with special guest vocalist Lena Horne.
- A salute to the performing arts on public television.
- On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln addressed the Young Men's Republican Union in Cooper Union's Great Hall arguing against allowing slavery in the Western territories. This electrifying speech catapulted the little-known Midwesterner into the forefront of Presidential candidates on the Republican ticket and ultimately led to his election as the 16th President of the United States. From the same stage where Lincoln spoke over one hundred years ago, historian Harold Holzer describes the impact of the speech as well as his historical context, followed by actor Sam Waterston delivering the actual address.
- She was rich and a good business woman, but she didn't look it. Her home in the country was comfortably furnished, and she lived there for choice, although property in the city was in her name. One building she owned was a city mansion, and the necessity of collecting the rent induced her to take a trip to the metropolis. Crossing a crowded thoroughfare, she became confused, but was rescued by a polite young man, who, finding her rather upset by her experience, volunteered to escort her to her lawyer's office. There he saw a large sum of money paid over to her, and at once grew to like her the more. The fact was that the young man was a crook, and saw a chance to make some easy money. The woman, who had taken a fancy to him, decided to be his "fairy Godmother," intending to test him out, and if he proved worthy to put him in the way of making his fortune. She was feeling most benevolent that day, and could see a popular storybook ending to what promised to be a very ordinary adventure. So she listened while he told her of an excellent and cheap boarding house, went to the place with him, and was well pleased with her reception there. The dishonest young man devoted much time to planning a way to relieve "the easy mark" of her wealth. Some were dangerous, others he regarded as "too coarse." Then Dame Fortune threw a chance in his way and he accepted it gratefully. He found the keys of a stylish mansion, and soon proved to his satisfaction that the owner had gone abroad, and that the place was untenanted. Se he went to the woman from the country and offered her a bargain in real estate, and strangely enough the price was within her means. It was so easy to swindle the rural visitor that as he told his pal, the boarding-house keeper, it was "like taking water from the ocean."' He gave her a deed, accepted her money, and expected to be happy while it lasted. There was one little flaw in his yarn, one fact he had overlooked and it aroused the suspicion of the "easy mark." In the very moment of victory he met defeat, and went to prison, angry at himself, the grieving because dishonesty had cost him the best chance he had ever had to make a fortune.
- An hour of music with bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman, who performs at his home studio, at the Rainbow Room in New York City, and at Carnegie Hall, with special guests Cleo Laine and Mel Tormé.
- A second television concert of Wagner music conducted by Toscanini, in which a few of the selections played in the first concert are repeated.
- Ada Forbes loves Eugene Cory, but she marries Stapleton, a political boss who promises Ada's father a Senate seat in return for his daughter. After several years of an unhappy marriage, Ada leaves Stapleton and returns to Cory, now married to Alice Wood, to be his mistress. Alice finds out about the affair and confronts Ada, who promises never to see Eugene again. Then, Ada learns that her mother is dying. The double shock of losing Eugene and her mother brings on a breakdown, and Ada is put under a doctor's care. Her round-the-clock nurse falls asleep, however, and a half-insane Ada wanders away, falls into a river and drowns.
- Celebration of Carnegie Hall's 100th birthday. Featuring performances and recollections of some of the greatest talents and personalities in music and the arts.
- A bachelor, with plenty of money and not a care in the world, suddenly finds himself involved in a sea of trouble. It all starts when his brother, who lives in Trenton, wires that his wife and baby are on their way from the mountains and that he will appreciate it if "Brother Jack" will meet them and see them across town. The bachelor, with a sigh, prepares to be gallant. He meets the woman and child, also much luggage, and escorts them across town to the Pennsylvania station. There he takes them aboard a train, and believes that his task is over. But the mother suddenly remembers some purchases she must make, and the good-natured bachelor is prevailed upon to stand guard over the child until she returns. The mother forgets the time and misses the train and the baby and its bachelor uncle start off together. But the mother is a woman of resource. She wires tips on caring for the baby to various stations along the line, and all would be well were it not for the uncle's awkwardness. But he annoys the other passengers, fights with the conductor when that official remonstrates with him, and is finally thrown off at a little station far from Trenton. It is a hot day and that, together with the necessity of singing to the baby, had made uncle thirsty. He sees a saloon nearby, but does not care to take baby there. Furthermore, the baby will not remain quiet all by itself. But finally fortune smiles on the uncle, although, as afterwards develops, it is a hypocritical smile. A dog is being shipped to Philadelphia in a dog basket, and is left on the platform near the pair of unfortunates. When no one is looking, the thirsty uncle ejects the astonished dog, and places the baby in a place of security. Then he goes off to the café and enjoys himself. Time passes rapidly in joy parlors, and trains do not wait for highballs. The car pulls in, the dog basket starts on its journey, and uncle is still in blissful ignorance of what is transpiring. The baggage man finds that instead of a live dog he has a squalling baby on his hands. Being a matter-of-fact individual, he hunts through the train, hoping that some woman will relieve him of his burden. One of the passengers is the baby's mother, and she greets her offspring with glad surprise and delight. And mother and child are reunited. The uncle sent his apologies by wire and then went for a long trip abroad.
- A piano recital by Rudolf Serkin on the occasion of his 75th birthday.