{"id":70778,"date":"2014-05-05T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=70778"},"modified":"2014-05-05T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T22:06:23","slug":"a-little-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/a-little-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365230623\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American Masters\u2019s <em>Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself<\/em> premieres nationally Friday, May 16, on PBS. The network has released a few short clips in advance, and they paint a pretty picture of life at the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em> under the Plimp\u2019s tenure. The portion above finds Robert Silvers, Jonathan Dee, and others reflecting on Plimpton\u2019s business acumen\u2014or triumphant lack thereof\u2014and the relaxed tenor of his leadership. \u201cI think it meant a lot to him to have this kind of camp,\u201d Silvers says. \u201cIt was a whole little world, you might say. And he was the king of it. And he was a ringmaster, you might say, of a little circus there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Below, Peter Matthiessen, who died last month and who had been the last living founder of the <em>Review<\/em>, discusses the magazine\u2019s ambitions\u2014its approach to fiction and poetry, and its early coups with interviews.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365220155\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Masters\u2019s Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself premieres nationally Friday, May 16, on PBS. The network has released a few short clips in advance, and they paint a pretty picture of life at the\u00a0Review under the Plimp\u2019s tenure. 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