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November 13, 2023
... Walicka-Maimone has been designing costumes for television, theater, dance and film for decades. Her credits ... As a result, the first season depicted Bertha swanning about in one haute-couture dress after another, often paired ... of the Brooklyn Bridge. Referencing the colors of the American flag, Walicka-Maimone trimmed the red gown in blue ...
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June 15, 2023
... its short run. Beatts worked on a number of different television titles in the decades following SNL , producing ... parents read out loud to us. I learned to read when I was about three — in self-defense, my mother always said — ... position on the show. We owe him and every African American in the country an apology for making him be a flying ...
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May 24, 2023
... restored his own Boston home and was asked to host a local television show to explain the process, the public's interest ... at TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews. Q: Tell us a little about your family. A: My parents came to South Florida [from ... War II. When I was ten, we moved to Havana. I was a total American kid with a Davy Crockett raccoon hat, and all of a ...
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May 3, 2022
... she hoped to join fellow standups who were finding wide television fame. But her show, All-American Girl , carried some heavy burdens. it was part of a ... a name that my dad likes — he loved an old Irish song about a Maggie. Q: What was it like growing up in the '70s ...
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January 30, 2023
... Emmys.com recently caught up with Chuck D and Boula to rap about Fight the Power and what it has to say. Chuck, you've ... in my head. But how to connect those dots in the world of television, I had no vision to go forward, multimedia-wise. ... so long was because of Covid. We were translating a very American story to an amazingly talented team, but that was ...
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February 13, 2023
... late twenties. And though he did find work as an actor in television, it was as a producer of popular broadcast network ... 2015's John Lewis: Get in the Way , the first documentary about the civil rights leader and congressman, as well as Red ... film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering African-American pilots and airmen of World War II. A member of the ...
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September 29, 2022
... writes and produces). With more than 650 film and television credits, he experienced yet another wave of ... company dedicated to raising the visibility of the Asian-American experience. As one of the company's nine original ... Americanized. So I attended grade school in Kowloon for about four years. Q: As a boy, did you enjoy movies? ...
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April 14, 2022
... the Humanities (NEH) for the preservation of its online archive The Interviews: An Oral History of Television . ... in projects that catalog, preserve, explain and promote American history. The Foundation is one of 36 award ... to enthusiastically share this incredible collection about the art of American television with the world, free of ...
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April 3, 2023
Television was in its early days in the 1950s when George ... of the Emmy Awards committee for six years. A Filipino American, he also served on the Producers Guild of America ... at TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews . Q: Tell us a bit about your early years. A: I was born and grew up in San ...
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November 14, 2022
... for their courage. From stand-up, Reid made the jump to television, joining the ensemble cast of The Richard Pryor ... Foundation. The interview was a coproduction with the American Comedy Archives at Emerson College. The following is ... at TelevisionAcademy.com/ Interviews . Q: Tell us a little about growing up in Virginia. A: I was taught very early to ...