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PBS series on Annie Oakley

Posted by David Hardy · 8 May 2006 08:58 AM

Just was informed PBS should be running tonight (Monday) a documentary on Annie Oakley, entitled "Annie Oakley: Little Miss Sure-Shot." I don't have schedule information, so consult your local source.

This is the documentary that Riva Friefeld has been working on, for several years. Don Kates just emailed me a review in the NY Times (can't find it online yet) that praises it with NY Times-type reluctance, beginning "Plenty of women accomplished plenty of things in the first century or so of United States history, so it's a little dismaying to think that the country's first female superstar was famous not for her voice or her musicianship or her brain, but for her ability to shoot firearms accurately. Yet tonight's installment of "American Experience" on PBS makes the case that Annie Oakley was the first American woman whose fame and knack for spawning legends (a close cousin of gossip) qualified as superstardom."

3 Comments | Leave a comment

juliesa | May 9, 2006 6:47 PM | Reply

Here's a link to whole review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/arts/television/08oakl.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

After sniffing his distaste for the sport a couple of times, the reviewer at least goes on to praise the show.

I saw the show, and found it inspiring and very moving. One could do much worse than to aspire to be more like Annie Oakley.

Windy Wilson | May 10, 2006 12:30 PM | Reply

Let me get this straight. The NYT is disturbed that a woman became a superstar not for her looks or for performing on stage but because she could do something that usually men do but she was able to do it better? Hey, everybody, the NYT is engaging in sexist stereotyping!

juliesa | May 10, 2006 7:14 PM | Reply

Precisely, Windy. And I think a great markswoman is a much better role model for kids than a hootchie-cootchie like Madonna or Britny.

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