Interview Margaret Cho In her nearly two-hour remote TheirStory interview, Margaret Cho talks about growing up in San Francisco and getting into stand-up comedy as a teenager. She discusses a pivotal career moment - opening for Jerry Seinfeld - and how that opened doors for her, particularly at MTV, and she describes how...
Interview Tim Reid In his three-hour remote TheirStory interview, Tim Reid talks about his childhood in Virginia and becoming active in the Civil Rights Movement. He recalls meeting Martin Luther King, Jr. and attending the March on Washington, and speaks of his time at Norfolk State University. He discusses how he...
Interview Soledad O'Brien In her three-hour remote TheirStory interview, Soledad O'Brien discusses growing up on Long Island, NY, attending Harvard University, and getting hired for her early jobs in journalism at WBZ in Boston, NBC Nightly News in New York, and KRON-TV in San Francisco. She recalls joining MSNBC as the...
Topic Hollywood Blacklist BLACKLISTING Blacklisting is the practice of refusing to hire or terminating from employment an individual whose opinions or associations are deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome. In the U.S. tradition, the term is forever linked to the fervent anti-communism of the Cold War...
Show Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse: "Marty" "Marty" is the acclaimed 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky telecast live May 24, 1953, on The Goodyear Television Playhouse . Rod Steiger starred in the title role and Nancy Marchand, in her television debut, played opposite him as Clara. It told the story of a decent, hard-working Bronx butcher,...
