Martin Norden tells Anne Strainchamps that the disabled have been in films from the beginning, but only as stereotypes: bad disabled people get killed off, while good disabled people get cured.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Some of the country's leading neuro-biologists are collaborating with Buddhist monks in an effort to understand the effects of meditation on the mind and the brain.
Former casting director Joanna Merlin talks with Jim Fleming about the auditioning process. Her book is “Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide.”
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farn in rural Maine. Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father. Coleman writes about that time in her memoir "This Life is in Your Hands."
Days before the launch of his latest project - a multi-media storytelling platform for the public - Jonathan Harris tells Anne Strainchamps about his inspiration and vision for Cowbird.
Kerry O. Burns talks with Judith Strasser and performs excerpts from his one-man show “Markings of the Soul.” The play tells the story of Kerry and his gay brother, Tim.
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