Did you catch last week's first hour of the Little Rock Antiques Roadshow episodes? It was a good one. And there are two more on the way.
Episode 2 airs at 7 p.m. Monday on PBS and AETN.
Highlights include a 1983 Truman Capote Playboy manuscript brought in by an editor; a jazz musician photograph archive (it includes signed photos of Billie Holiday, Nat "King" Cole and Louis Armstrong) appraised for $50,000 to $75,000; and a Mississippi effigy figure circa 1000-1500 A.D.
Paper Trails columnist Linda S. Haymes did some digging for one of her columns to ferret out the editor who brought in the Capote manuscript.
Haymes reports the fellow is James Morgan of Little Rock, a book editor, collaborator and consultant. He was nonfiction editor for Playboy from 1978-86.
"I often referred to myself as the rationale editor, since everybody says they buy it for the articles," Morgan told Haymes.
"In 1983, I assigned Capote to write a kind of memoir/essay about his long friendship with Tennessee Williams, who had just died," he says. "After some difficulties, the piece ['Remembering Tennessee'] ran as the lead nonfiction for the magazine's 30th anniversary issue in January 1984." Capote died of liver cancer the following August.
Morgan moved to Little Rock in 1986 to work as editorial director of Southern magazine. Since then, he has written, co-written or collaborated on six books, including one best-seller and two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Haymes reports.
Watch Monday's episode to see how much the appraiser valued the manuscript.
Antiques Roadshow was in Little Rock on July 25 as part of its six-city summer tour ahead of its 20th anniversary season. Little Rock was the fifth city on the tour and about 6,000 ticket holders took items to the Statehouse Convention Center for appraisals.
On hand to do the honors were experts: in furniture, Leslie Keno; jewelry, Kevin Zavian; toys, Noel Barrett; folk art, Allan Katz; and decorative arts, LaGina Austin, originally of Hardy, who now works in Marlborough, Mass., at Skinner Auctioneers.
The final Little Rock episode will air at 7 p.m. Feb. 8. Uncovered treasures will include a 1985 Charles Schulz Snoopy sketch, Chinese altar garniture (ca. 1850), and a 1919 William Faulkner handmade poetry book.
One of those three was appraised between $70,000 and $100,000. I won't spoil it.
• Yikes. One of the fun surprises on Monday nights continues to be Supergirl starring the charming Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl. She brings just the right amount of pluck, spunk and vulnerability to the role.
When I was a kid, I always enjoyed the Superman comics that visited Bizarro World, where everything was backward -- good was evil, Superman was bad.
In Monday's episode of Supergirl (7 p.m., CBS) an evil, twisted mirror-image version of Supergirl tries to destroy Kara. What will she do? Will she survive?
Meanwhile, Cat Grant's (Calista Flockhart) son, Adam Foster (Blake Jenner, Glee), and Kara become closer. If the lip-lock photo that CBS sent to critics is any indication, they become a lot closer.
The episode is rated TV-14 for language and violence.
• Galavant. I've written recently about network TV's growing tendency to run shows with shorter seasons in order to keep pace with cable and the streaming services. A good example of one that ran entirely in January wraps up today.
ABC's musical comedy/fantasy Galavant ends its 10-episode second season at 7 p.m. with the episodes "Battle of the Three Armies" and "The One True King (to Unite Them All)." ABC airs the half-hour series in back-to-back episodes.
In tonight's offerings, all seems lost for Isabella (Karen David) and the people of Hortensia, until Galavant (Joshua Sasse) and his zombie army arrive. Finally, Madalena (Mallory Jansen) and Wormwood's (Robert Lindsay) spell causes the zombie army to revolt.
There's no word from the network on whether a Season 3 is in the works.
• Raddatz official. ABC News has made it official. Martha Raddatz has been named co-anchor of the Sunday morning public affairs show This Week, alternating hosting duties with George Stephanopoulos. That has been the practice over the past few months anyway.
Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl will be the substitute host on weeks when those two aren't available.
• Netflix. Here are the installment dates for a trio of popular Netflix series. All new episodes will be available for bingeing on the release date.
House of Cards -- The fourth installment, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, premieres March 4.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt -- The second installment, featuring Ellie Kemper as Kimmy, arrives April 15.
Orange Is the New Black -- The fourth installment from creator Jenji Kohan (Weeds) premieres June 17.
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Style on 01/31/2016