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...
Interview Alan Zweibel In his five-and-a-half-hour interview, Alan Zweibel talks about his early years, and becoming enamored with The Dick Van Dyke Show as a child. He recalls learning how to write jokes from watching shows like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Dick Cavett Show , and coming up as a...
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,...
Show Mama Mama , which aired from 1949 to 1957 on CBS, proves that television was capable of complex characterizations in the series format even early in its history. A weekly family comedy-drama based on Kathryn Forbes's Mama's Bank Account , as well as its play and film adaptations I Remember Mama , Mama...