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3 weeks ago
Straight Talk from Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen
Susan G. Komen has spent 30 years providing real help to low-income, uninsured and underinsured women, and recent changes to Komen's granting polic...
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2 months ago
CBS Halls of Ivy 1955
The Halls of Ivy starred Ronald Coleman and Benita Hume. It ran on CBS from 1954-55 and was produced by Ronald Coleman. For more TV history visit...
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2 months ago
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I was nine when Halls of Ivy went off the air. My parents would let me stay up to watch it with them. I can—and sometimes do—sing the alma mater from memory. Had I not been imprinted at so impressionable an age, I might have chosen something other than a life in academe. By 1955, the die had been...
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7 months ago
Alexander Skarsgård - Att döda ett Barn (To kill a Child) short movie
Att döda ett Barn (To kill a child) short movie from 2003
Alex as writer and director (with Björne Larsson), original short story by Stig Dagerman
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Thank you so much for posting this, and to those who kindly provided translations.
Has anyone else noticed how terribly Skarsgård and Larsson butcher Dagerman's beautiful text? All of its delicate complexity—gone!
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1 year ago
Arbetlose Marsch - a yiddish song
Arbetlose Marsch by Mordechai Gebirtig
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@ashkenaz Please excuse the slip of the mind and finger: I was referring of course to Weinreich père, Max Weinreich/Maks Vaynraykh
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
Peggy Seeger - First time ever I saw your face
Peggy Seeger
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Neither chronology nor the principals' reports sustain this claim. McColl and Littlewood had divorced before his '49 marriage to Jean Newlove. Nor is there evidence of the song before his '56 meeting with Peggy.
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1 year ago
Alistair Hulett and Jimmy Gregory Among Proddy Dogs And Papes
Among Proddy Dogs And Papes.....Alistair Hulett the ex Roaring Jack singer songwriter based in his native Scotland after 25 years in Australia.
Vis...
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1 year ago
The Little Shtimmer
With his father flying bombing runs in the South Pacific, Bobby passes his days in fantasy and silence.
Written and directed by Lilly Posner.
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1 year ago
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@shanaynaywillz
Thank you for an excellent performance in this superb film.
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Nancy G. Brinker - the banality of evil, the face of a murderer