A recurring character in August Wilson's plays, Ester claims to be 285 years old and is the kind matriarch of her household in Pittsburgh, PA. Phylicia Rashad received a Tony Award nomination for her role as Ester in Gem of the Ocean.
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Rosie O'Donnell (b. 1962) discusses her childhood growing up in Commack, Long Island.
See Dyanna Taylor at work on the film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, which she directed, produced, wrote and narrated. Taylor is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer/social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor, and a Peabody- and five-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer.
Alice Walker's great-great-great-great-grandmother was a slave who journeyed on foot with two babies on her hips, from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia, which is considered Walker's ancestral home. In memory of that walk, Walker chose to keep and embrace her maiden name, Walker.
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A look at composer Marvin Hamlisch's parents, professional accordionist Max Hamlisch and "helicopter mother" Lilly Hamlisch, told through family home movies and humorous accounts from his cousin, Paul Kushner.
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Janie Hendrix fondly remembers moments with her older brother and poignantly recalls the day her family found out he had died.
In Carrie and Me, Carol Burnett shares her personal diary entries and correspondence revealing her anguish as a mother of a troubled teenager, the epiphanies that helped her help her family, and the grief and then the hope she felt after her daughter’s death. Through ...
Philip Roth remembers his brother.
The part David Geffen's mother played in his life is described by Margot Thomas, Lorne Michaels and others.
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Dancer and entertainer Gene Kelly's wife of sixteen years, Betsy Blair, talks about Kelly’s legacy in an audio clip from our Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
