Think with the look in his face, you know that he had won. He beat the odds. He made it. One of chucks outstanding attributes of character is courage, and i think he has the courage to do things that perhaps other people wouldnt attempt. The idea of doing a western was not popular. And a friend of mine, whose name was tommy grise, was a directorwriter. And tommy had written about 30 pages of a western screenplaynot cowboys and indians, not shootemup, but a story of overage cowboys, one particular overage cowboy. And i was knocked out by it, because i felt it was a very honest and a very forthright and a very unusual picture of the west. And it kind of caught my fancy, and i gave the 30 pages to chuck and said, well, read them and tell me what you think. He came back the next morning and he said, lets do it. Well get George Stevens to direct. I said, whoa, hold it, forget it. We wont get George Stevens to direct, because if we want to get this, tommy grise, whos writing it, wants to dir
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose. Bill moyers is here, we had a knighthood for journalism he will be sir bill, for more than 40 years he has been one of the most respected voices on television and television every where. He has over 30 emmies and 9 peabody awards. He once described himself as a beach comber on the shore of other peoples experience. In books, documentary films and news shows he has explored everything from democracy and poetry to the power of myth. He returns to one of his most important subjects, the middle class and the American Dream. Here is the trailer for frontlines two American Families. Next time on frontline, the unforgetable story of two American Families. The newmans this is a very stable job. And the stanleys. When i got laid off, i thought i will find me a job. Filmed over 20 years. A lot of people lost their houses. My mom being one of them. Bill moyers follows these two families chas
I can tell youve been down south a long time. Youre saying, yes, maam. Moyers hard workers, caring parents, faithful churchgoers trying to secure a foothold in the middle class. But as we came back to visit them over the years, we watched their children grow and their fortunes change. Now im putting longer hours in, youre getting money, but its not that much, and you say, whats the use . Moyers we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and Political Forces that were altering the american landscape. Heres my paycheck. 9,646. 89. Thats poverty. Moyers and as america ushered in a new gilded age, in milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, working people found themselves left behind, barely staying even at best. So now, 22 years in the making, the intimate and revealing story of two American Families. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support ffrontline is provided by
Really going on out in milwaukee. And it was the fact that the manufacturing jobs were beginning to disappear at a faster and faster rate. So two talented team of producers, cathry hughes and tom kashoto, husband and wife, went out for us. We found these two families who seemed to be representative of what was happening to thousands of working families in milwaukee. They were losing their manufacturing jobs, the chief breadwinner was losing their manufacturing jobsment and they were struggling to find their way in the economy that was then beginning to radically change. And we came back to them three times in the 1990s. Did a fourth broadcast in 2001. And then this is the final broadcast we have done in following these two families for all these years. 21 years. And the theme is . The theme is that once upon a time there was nothing more american than the belief that if you work hard and try, and play by the rules, you will get aheadment you can make a decent living and make a Better F
Spending the rest of my life with him. And our expectations were, i thought, you know, you find the man that you like and get married and have a family, and get a house, a little white picket fence, you know, all those little fairy tale type things. Um, some of it came true, but some of it as far as the bumpy roads, i didnt expect either. You know, i knew they werent gonna be all peaches and cream, but you dont think of all the bad things when youre younger. Moyers once upon a time, Terry Neumann and her husband tony dreamed of a good, simple life. When we got married, we had started a family right away. He was working factory and i stayed home. And he made pretty good money when we were first married, you know, for a young couple with one little one on the way. Grab a couple and crack em in the pan. I dont know, we had a good time with one child, so we had another one, and there was adam. You know, and then i got pregnant with karissa in 86 and he had lost his job. Then he got hired a