> THE SOURCE, AN "AMERICAN MASTERS" SPECIAL, Wednesday, May > 31,2000, 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings). The beat goes on when >AMERICAN > MASTERS profiles the leading figures of the Beat movement and examines >their continuing > impact on modern society in Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's THE > SOURCE. Three years in the making, the program examines the lives and >times of the > Beats, from the movement's genesis. It resurrects, in powerful words and >stunning images, > the heyday of the movement in the bohemian subculture of the 1950s, its >evolution in the > 60s and its enormous effect on civil rights for gays, women and >minorities. Producer: Beat > Productions. Contact: Stacey Robbins, Thirteen/WNET, Tel.: 212/560-4910; >Fax: > 212/560-3102; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

