--- "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dunno. All of the pre-press says that PBS is > going to show the full 2 > hours in one straight shot. > > 1. If that's so, then the PBS version has more than > two subtitles. In the > PR, my local affiliate calls Wednesday night's show, > 'Joni Mitchell: Chords > of Inquiry'.
There is a Joni-quote in Woman of blah-blah where she's talking about her weird tunings and calls them "Chords of Inquiry." This may have been a working title. Apparently, as you point out, there were a few before they settled on something (maybe "settled" like a fly, for a nano-second, before "settling" on something else.) > But then in the schedule they call it 'American > Masters: Joni Mitchell: > Woman of Heart and Mind "Joni Mitchell: Chords of > Inquiry"' and show what > appears to show a 75minute slot on Wednesday night. > That doesn't match the > PR for the USA version (a single two-hour block) nor > does it support 2 > one-hour segments that Canada got. The Canadian version was shown in two one-hour pieces. There was an intro by Anne Marie McDonald (no relation to Ronald), a Canadian writer and actor - this would have been CBC's own thing. There were also commercial breaks (done in tasteful and logical places so, even though they were commercials, they didn't annoy as much as they usually do - when I say "tasteful and logical", it's along the lines of, well, if I must be tortured, then I'm so glad they're playing that nice music in the background feeling you get when you're at the dentist.) That should bring total running time of the film itself under 90 minutes. I understood the CBC version did cut a bit from the "other" version. I don't know where I read that, but it wouldn't surprise me, since the CRTC allows more commercials per hour than US television does and there's always a minute or two missing from the Simpsons as aired on Canadian TV compared to what airs on US TV - sometimes it's glaringly obvious that something's missing, but most of the time, it's not noticeable (unless you happen to catch the same episode on a US channel and wonder how you happened to miss that part.) What worries me most is the possibility of a 75-minute time slot. It would be so like PBS to stick a pledge-raising thing in there somewhere to bring total running time to 90 or 120. I plan to tape this puppy (whether it ends up being the same as what I already taped off CBC or not) and since I will be taping off my TV at work (it's brand new and its VCR works exactly as it should), I'd be really disappointed to have the whines of "your phone call could make the difference" and "we'll shut up as soon as we've got $10,000 in pledges, so c'mon now and call us at 1-800-bla-blah right now and we can get back to Joni Mitchell!" in the middle of it. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
