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  [Studs Terkel interviewed by Edie Rubinowitz]

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel interviewed by Edie Rubinowitz, covering political topics like leadership, war, and America’s “national Alzheimer’s disease” regarding our own history.

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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #43]

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Making it in Hollywood, On the Media

  Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. A continuation of footage with actors Julius Harris, Robert Walden, Sally Kirkland, Cissy Colpitts, and Gregory Rozakis at Derrick’s, a restaurant in Los Angeles. Walden talks about how society is “geared to not respect” actors; there is a general discussion about censorship and movie ratings, and how movie ratings (as well as reviews) can be bought by studios; and “craziness” in artists.

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  A Conversation with Studs Terkel

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Two ten minute interviews with Studs Terkel.

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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #44]

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Making it in Hollywood, On the Media

  Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. A continuation of footage with actors Julius Harris, Robert Walden, Sally Kirkland, Cissy Colpitts (now Cisse Cameron), and Gregory Rozakis at Derrick’s, a restaurant in Los Angeles. They discuss the differences in the acting communities of New York and Hollywood, and the gossip columns.

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  Tom Joyner at Edna’s #2

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Radio Faces, Tom Weinberg

  Live radio broadcast of the new Tom Joyner Show on V-103. They are broadcasting from Edna’s, legendary soul food restaurant in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. Special guests on the show include Ramsey Lewis, George Wallace, and Herb Kent. Much of the tape is footage of the crowd at the restaurant before and after the broadcast, including two interviews with Herb Kent, “the Kool Gent.”

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  Omnibus: Studs Terkel’s Chicago

  Chicago, Home movie, NHPRC, Peoples Video Theater/Survival Arts Media, Studs Terkel

  BBC portrait of Studs Terkel, the Chicago author. Features current interviews and footage of Terkel; archival footage of Terkel; footage of Terkel receiving the Pulitzer Prize for his book “The Good War” on May 20, 1985; Terkel’s audio recordings of people’s reactions to Chicago’s Picasso sculpture at its unveiling; and a brief interview with Terkel’s wife, Ida.

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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #45]

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Making it in Hollywood, On the Media

  Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. A continuation of footage with actors Julius Harris, Robert Walden, Sally Kirkland, Cissy Colpitts (now Cisse Cameron), and Gregory Rozakis at Derrick’s, a restaurant in Los Angeles. Cissy Colpitts and part-time talent manager Judy Thomas talk about agents. Thomas agrees to watch and possibly set up a screening of Colpitts’ resume tape.

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  [Tom Joyner at Regal #2]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Radio Faces

  Video of a live radio broadcast of the Tom Joyner Morning Show for V-103. The broadcast happens in the New Regal Theater in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.