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	Family Roots
		In societies with a sexual division of labor, marriage, and the resulting relationship between a husband and wife, is necessary for the formation of aneconomically productive hous...
		Roots (TV miniseries), a mini-series based on anovel by Alex Haley
		Roots: The Saga of anAmerican Family, a novel by Alex Haley
	www.altvetmed.com /face/17802-family-roots.html (498 words)

	USATODAY.com - Is the TV miniseries extinct? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The splashy, big-budget miniseries might be extinct, at least on network TV, were it not for TV showman Robert Halmi Sr.
		Network miniseries today, their audiences fragmented by cable and other entertainment pastimes, can't hope to draw anywhere near the ratings of 1977's Roots, whose final episode attracted more than half the USA's TV households, or to hold on to viewers for a week's time.
		Although the miniseries is shrinking in number and length on broadcast TV, the genre is thriving on cable, with everything from Anne Rice's Feast of All Saints on Showtime to Attila on USA.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/2002/2002-05-08-dinotopia.htm (1336 words)

	TV Miniseries on DVD - Roots, Traffik, Traffic, Salem's Lot, Spartacus, The Phantom of the Opera, Shogun, Shaka Zulu, ...
		This is, at its root, a family tragedy, focusing on errant father Gary (T.K. Carter, in a heartbreaking performance) a once-successful investor trapped in a tailspin of heroin dependency.
		Here King redresses the balance in a miniseries that follows his original almost to the letter, and manages to be effectively creepy despite the budget and censorship limitations of the TV format.
		V - The Original TV Miniseries - In its day, V was a monumental event that for one generation remains a pop-culture touchstone.
	www.appletothecore.com /tvshowdvds/miniseries.htm (6887 words)

	Wednesday
		Their time was the '70s and '80s with mega-productions such as “Rich Man, Poor Man,” “Holocaust,” “Centennial,” “Shogun,” “Lonesome Dove” and of course “Roots.” The miniseries allows for stories of depth and complexity not possible within the confines of the traditional half-hour or hour-long TV series.
		Many miniseries are based on best-selling novels, and the novelist’s name is often attached to the project as a selling point (“Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers,’” “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’”).
		Miniseries are usually part of a network’s strategy for the television season.
	medialifemagazine.com /News2005/jun05/june27/3_wed/news3wednesday.html (931 words)

	miniseries - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Roots (novel and TV miniseries) : miniseries and sequel
		With an estimated $3 billion in advertising going to television this year, even the network placing third in the annual scramble for viewers was guaranteed healthy profits for the 1977-1978 season.
		Nevertheless, the competition for ratings was more intense than ever, and all three networks made...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /miniseries.html (120 words)

	Blue's News: Edit Message
		I took a reference of the TV miniseries “Roots” which would probably only really be known by people in America who are over thirty years of age.
		“Roots” the miniseries is about slavery, which most people agree is wrong.
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	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-R---Sc/Roots.html (194 words)

	The power of 'Roots': Special celebrates 25th anniversary of landmark miniseries
		At some time during the miniseries' eight nights, 130 million Americans watched "Roots," and the series went on to garner countless awards including nine Emmys and a Peabody.
		There is also a three-disc DVD version of the miniseries being released today, which includes commentary from the stars and the producers and a documentary.
		The television program was based on "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley that chronicled seven generations of his family.
	www.post-gazette.com /tv/20020115roots0115fnp4.asp (1041 words)

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		"Roots" had transformed Haley, who died in 1992 at the age of 70, from a prominent freelance magazine writer and author into a revered American cultural figure.
		"The reason that 'Roots' is so important (is that) through the microcosm of one man's personal family story, represented a whole race in this country, the representation of which had never been done before in literature," she says.
		"'Roots' was so much more than one man's family, no matter how important his family was." END OPTIONAL TRIM Although Haley inspired a generation of amateur genealogists, questions and discrepancies about facts in "Roots" continue to prick at his legacy.
	www.nnpa.org /nnpanewsite/newswire/1-14-02/roots.txt (855 words)

	ABC rejects its 'Roots' / NBC, ironically, to celebrate silver anniversary of miniseries
		ABC ran "Roots" for eight straight nights, from Jan. 23 to Jan. 30, "because they wanted to get rid of it," said one of the program's stars, Leslie Uggams, who accompanied Wolper at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
		The best evidence that Uggams is right is the fact that "Roots" was on the air ahead of, rather than during, the February sweeps in 1977.
		It was a big, burly miniseries that gripped the least savory theme in American history -- slavery -- wrapped it in a good story and depicted it with an iron dramatic fist.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/16/DD82358.DTL (796 words)

	Roots
		Finally, Roots was credited with having a positive impact on race relations, expanding the nation's sense of history.
		Through it all, however, Roots depicted its slave characters as well-rounded human beings, not merely as victims or symbols of oppression.
		Overall, Roots had a powerful and diverse impact--as a cultural phenomenon, an exploration of fl history, and the crown jewel of historical mini-series.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/roots/roots.htm (883 words)

	Floridian: Revisiting 'Roots'
		Based on Haley's bestselling book of the same name, Roots was a TV phenomenon no one saw coming.
		Wolper got involved with Roots after mutual friend Ruby Dee introduced him to Haley, who had already written a landmark book: The Autobiography of Malcolm X. This time, he was tracing his family history back to the time of slavery, a delicious concept Wolper knew would bring a new take on American history.
		Uggams, who became one of the first fl women to appear on national TV when she performed with Mitch Miller at age 17 in 1961, remembers Roots as the most diverse project she'd ever seen.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/18/news_pf/Floridian/Revisiting__Roots_.shtml (1494 words)

	GenWeekly -- Genealogy Weekly News & Information Service
		Now, continuing its 30th Anniversary celebration of "Roots," TV One announces the telecast of "Roots: The Next Generations," the continuing saga of Alex Haleyâs family line from the post-Civil War era to the Pulitzer Prize-winning authorâs genealogical search for his roots in the 1960s, which led him to Africa.
		As reported on Fox News, "German Morticians Plan TV Channel Dedicated to Death," viewers could be in for a surprise the next time they break from their favorite TV shows to surf the channels.
		The channel, which is set to be distributed on satellite TV and on the Internet, is to focus on the general concept of dying.
	www.genweekly.com (2420 words)

	Roots (TV miniseries) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots was a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family, his critically acclaimed genealogical novel.
		A second sequel, Roots: The Gift, was also produced as a Christmas movie and is widely considered inferior to the other two entries in the series, despite the fact that Levar Burton stars.
		Roots and the book it was adapted from revived interest in oral and genealogical history among all segments of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots_(mini-series) (348 words)

	Alex Haley's "Roots" was plagiarized from a White author.
		Alex Haley's "Roots" was plagiarized from a White author.
		But plagiarism is the least of the problems in "Roots." And they would likely have remained largely unknown, had journalist Philip Nobile not undertaken a remarkable study of Haley's private papers shortly before they were auctioned off.
		Yet the uniqueness of "Roots" is that it was presented as factual history, albeit with fictional embellishments.
	www.martinlutherking.org /roots.html (585 words)

	TRIO: Pressroom
		The top ten miniseries of all time were selected by TRIO¹s "blue ribbon" panel which included television executives, critics, producers, directors and actors.
		The documentary counts down the top ten miniseries of all time that have made the biggest and most lasting cultural impact on our society and the genre itself.
		Following the premiere of Epic TV: The Top Ten Miniseries Of All Time, TRIO will air three critically acclaimed miniseries throughout the Thanksgiving weekend: Shogun, Holocaust and Brideshead Revisited.
	www.triotv.com /corp/press/2003/pr20031022b.html (501 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		This is a perfect format for TV fans that want to get miniseries or entire episodes of seasons of their favorite shows.
		And, of course, live TV had its appeal, even though I've seen this before and know what's going to happen, I still laugh every time I see it because, of course, this happened before millions of people as he kisses her and -- that's good stuff.
		He throws a tomahawk on live TV at a dummy and it gets him at a point that Carson called a frontier bris.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0201/26/smn.15.html (1044 words)

	roots - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Roots : Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
		Phrases that include roots: grass roots, aerial roots, adventitious roots, olfactory roots, plant roots, more...
		Words similar to roots: root, lineage, origins, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=roots (210 words)

	Re-runs of "Roots" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		"Roots" has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero Kunta Kinte was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.
		One TV miniseries is not enough to affect the condition of the Black community then or now.
		The TV show was not an academic exericise; It was a dramatization of the experiences of African slaves brought to America.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/618510/posts (5446 words)

	BAM: 'Roots' Down Under, The Classes, March 1997
		When Anne Haley Brown moved to Australia last fall and began lecturing in law at Queensland's Bond University, it was not her legal skills that most intrigued the locals.
		She is also the niece of the late Alex Haley, author of the novel Roots and of the miniseries' screenplay.
		As a teenager, Brown was cast as a friend of her grandmother, Bertha Palmer, in the miniseries' sequel, "Roots: The Second Generation." "They did their best," Brown says wryly of her small-screen debut, "but I think I'd better stick to the law and let my husband do the acting."
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=1015 (411 words)

	Vic Morrow
		Film and TV roles of Vic Morrow (with fan comments)
		Stars Vic Morrow as a young man on a quest to find all the men who were involved in lynching his father.
		(1976 TV miniseries) Vic has a small supporting role in this epic rags-to-riches tale of a poor Irish immigrant who gains wealth and power in 19th-century America.
	www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/bookstore/vicmorrow.html (901 words)

	AOL's Jason Whitlock- 'The Wire' Calls Out Destructive Culture - AOL Sports
		Alex Haley’s TV miniseries "Roots" set Nielsen Ratings records, won numerous awards and made the whole country take part in an uncomfortable-but-healthy conversation about race and racism.
		For a lot of people, "Roots I" and "Roots II," released in 1977 and 1979, put the Black condition in context for the first time.
		And TV networks are passing out phat contracts to fl men and women willing to Flavor Flav and Nat X for dollars.
	sports.aol.com /whitlock/_a/the-wire-calls-out-destructive-culture/20061013131409990001 (1232 words)

	Alex Haley's roots revisited Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		That odyssey produced Roots: The Saga of an American Family, an amazing book that garnered Haley a special Pulitzer Prize and caused many African-Americans to swell with pride: Perhaps they, too, were descendants of an African named Kunta Kinte.
		Greater glory came with the Roots TV miniseries, which was reportedly watched by 130 million people and catapulted Alex Haley to international fame.
		He uses one condo as his office and the other is a residence he keeps so he can easily fly out and back from the average 50 speaking engagements he makes a year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n10_v22/ai_11812537 (806 words)

	ARCH 566/AAS 406D: Syllabus - Feb. 8
		Above Left: Scene from the ABC-TV miniseries "Roots," first aired on eight consecutive nights during week of Jan. 22-31, 1977.
		The development of the festival has coincided with the fostering of non-traditional "roots" in the West - with the Nation of Islam, for example, which funded the building of the Alex Haley Mosque in Juffure (opened by Minister Louis Farrakhan during the 1999 Roots Festival).
		For those living within the national boundaries of The Gambia, having a festival of this sort has allowed the emergence of new social practices and ways of participating in the nationhood of the country.
	www.virginia.edu /~woodson/courses/arch566/week4.html (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Roots: DVD: Maya Angelou,Ji-Tu Cumbuka,Moses Gunn,Thalmus Rasulala,Hari Rhodes,William Watson (III),Ren ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in 1977.
		The story is told complete in Roots: The Next Generations, which isn't available on DVD yet.
		"ROOTS" was the result of this research and it tells an incredible story of one mans family and American slavery.
	www.amazon.com /Roots-Maya-Angelou/dp/B00005QW6Y (1844 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, QUINCY JONES has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, and multi-media entrepreneur.
		As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African, and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including records, live performance, movies, and television.
		He is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 79 Grammy nominations.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=962 (87 words)

	Coming To America
		A regal beauty, Madge Sinclair was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to America at the age of 30 to pursue her career as an actress.
		She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Bell in the TV miniseries Roots and appeared in various TV series, including Trapper John M.D. After being diagnosed with leukemia in the early '80s, Sinclair continued to perform.
		She also worked with Jones in the TV series Gideon's Fire, for which she won an Emmy.
	www.tnt.tv /title/?oid=71321-3500 (129 words)

	The Black Roots of Slavery
		The common version of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the version taught in school and popularized by the TV miniseries Roots is not true.
		The reason for looking back is that the root of the crisis facing African societies is their failure to come to terms with the consequences of that contact.
		Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/626149/posts (7602 words)

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