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  Top Girls

  Caryl Churchill

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  In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Amy Brenneman as MarleneMegan Austin Oberle as Kit/Shona/WaitressKirsten Potter as Lady Nijo/WinSamantha Robson as Mrs. Kidd/JeanineCarolyn Seymour as Isabella Bird/JoyceKate Steele as Dull Gret/AngieConcetta Tomei as Pope Joan/LouiseMissy Yager as Patient Griselda/NellDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2006.

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  Grace Under Pressure

  Peggy Fleming

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  In 1968, a teenage girl in a chartreuse dress delivered a breathtaking free-skating program that captured the only winter Olympics gold medal for the United States.  Peggy Fleming continued to earn the highest marks in her skating career, but she deserved even higher marks for her grace under pressure off the ice.

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  Edgar Allan Poe Poems

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) is widely famed as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is best known for his works of horror, such as "The Tell Tale Heart." However, and this is less known, Poe also wrote many love poems. In this collection of forty-eight poems by Edgar Allan Poe we will go through a wide variety of themes, from horror and raw creepiness in "The Raven" to pure love in "A Valentine" to depression in "Alone." Throughout all of his poems Poe kept a very strong meter and rhyme scheme. This is most obvious in "The Bells." (Summary by Shurtagal)

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  For many in El Salvador life...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Extraordinary violence is among the factors pushing Central Americans north toward the U.S. In El Salvador, rival gangs like MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang kill thousands per year, despite a harsh crackdown by law enforcement. Special correspondent Danny Gold reports from San Martin on how these brutal groups control the population and drive one of the highest murder rates in the world.

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  Random Notes - Pages from the...

  Yaron Gilah

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  Random Notes is a collection of memories and anecdotes from the life of singer and musician Gilah Yaron. The musical environment in which she grew up is described throughout these pages and enables a glimpse into the events and circumstances that she experienced. They shaped her life as a student, a professional singer and voice instructor.

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  Stuntwomen - The Untold...

  Mollie Gregory

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  “Gives voice to the women who have risked their lives for a few (perilous) moments on the big screen. A fascinating look at a risky profession.” —The Washington Post 
   
  They’ve traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling twenty feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine feet over a wall to escape a dog attack. Only an expert can make such feats of daring look easy, and stuntwomen with the skills to perform—and survive—great moments of action in movies have been hitting their mark in Hollywood since the beginning of film. 
   
  Here, Mollie Gregory presents the first history of stuntwomen in the film industry from the silent era to the twenty-first century. In the early years of motion pictures, women were highly involved in all aspects of film production, but they were marginalized as movies became popular, and more important, profitable. Capable stuntwomen were replaced by men in wigs, and very few worked between the 1930s and 1960s. As late as the 1990s, men wore wigs and women’s clothes to double as actresses, and were even “painted down” for some performances, while men and women of color were regularly denied stunt work. 
   
  For decades, stuntwomen have faced institutional discrimination, unequal pay, and sexual harassment even as they jumped from speeding trains and raced horse-drawn carriages away from burning buildings. Featuring sixty-five interviews, Stuntwomen showcases the absorbing stories and uncommon courage of women who make their living planning and performing action-packed sequences that keep viewers’ hearts racing.

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