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New Documentary is a Nightmare.

Television critic David Bianculli reviews "MGM: When the Lion Roars." It's an eight-hour documentary about the MGM studios. It premieres this Sunday on the TNT cable network (which by the way is owned by the same man who owns MGM, Ted Turner).

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Other segments from the episode on March 17, 1992

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 17, 1992: Interview with Joel Blau; Interview with Lawrence Block; Review of the television show "MGM: When the Lion Roars."
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Myths about the Homeless are Leading to Misguided Policies.

Homeless expert Joel Blau (rhymes with "plow"). Blau spent years as a policy analyst for the city of New York, trying to solve their homeless problem. He eventually became disillusioned with government's approach to dealing with the homeless. He explains the fallacy of some of our basic assumptions about the homeless in his new book, "The Visible Poor: Homelessness in The United States." (It's published by Oxford University Press).

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