Television Memoir

Renegade Women in Film and TV blends fascinating biographical profiles and exclusive interviews with icons like Barbra Streisand, Rita Moreno, and Sigourney Weaver to celebrate the accomplishments of 50 extraordinary women throughout the history of entertainment. Each profile highlights the groundbreaking accomplishments and essential work of pioneers from the big and small screens, offering little-known facts about household names (Lucille Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Nora Ephron) and crucial introductions to overlooked pioneers (Alla Nazimova, Anna May Wong, Frances Marion).

Chris Licht was a “killer” at his day job as the executive producer in charge of running MSNBC’s must-watch politics and morning news show Morning Joe. A thirty-eight-year-old control freak who thrived in the high-octane world of media, he had spent years sacrificing relationships with family and friends in the fiercely driven pursuit of his career. But that was before a brain aneurysm nearly killed him. Suddenly humbled, Chris is forced to recognize the richness of the life he nearly lost and to reckon with his family and career.

By the mid-20th century, a musical revolution was stirring, and a generation that had not fought in the wars was ready to put the sorrows of the previous 50 years away. Requiring a commentary on modern life all its own, the first post-war generation went for self-expressed rock and roll, with Elvis Presley leading the movement. Jazz, incubated within America, grew into an increasingly sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic language, even though older generations were not able or willing to so easily follow.

Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pittsburgh shot to fame with his radical ideas of what "art" could be. Working in the aptly named Factory, Warhol's paintings, movies, and eccentric lifestyle blurred the lines between pop culture and art, ushering in the Pop Art movement and with it a national obsession. Who Was Andy Warhol? tells the story of an enigmatic man who grew into a cultural icon.

Søndag den 27. august 1995 kl. 17.30 var jeg i gang med at male paneler og dørkarme, da vagthavende var kørt en gummiged gennem muren til Statsfængslet i Vridsløselille, og at en 10-15 fanger var stukket af gennem hullet i muren.

世界で初めて電子式テレビジョン実験に成功した高柳健次郎は、ブラウン管に「イ」の字を映し出し、テレビ実用化の道を切り開きました。技術者たちとの研究を通じて学んだ「チーム研究」の重要性や「十年、二十年先に役立つ技術を目指せ」という恩師の言葉、テレビジョンの研究を決意したきっかけなどを高柳健次郎本人が語ります。〔NHK教育テレビ「私の自叙伝~テレビ事始め~」1980年3月13日放送より〕-高柳健次郎(たかやなぎ けんじろう) 1899(明治32)年、静岡県生まれ。1924(大正13)年、浜松高等工業学校(現・静岡大学工学部)助教授に就任。「無線遠視法」(テレビジョン)の研究を開始。1926(大正15)年、電子式テレビジョン実験に成功。戦後、日本ビクターに入社し、テレビジョンの技術革新に尽力。1990(平成2)年、91歳で死去。テレビの父と呼ばれた。