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Daughter, tamar. slowly and surely, her new baby turned dorothy day toward religion. dorothy said, no human creature could receive or contain so vast a flood of love and joy as i often felt after the birth of my child. with this came the need to worship, to adore. it was because, through a whole love, both physical and spiritual, i came to know god. dorothys increasing religious commitment became alienating to the father of her child, and so they separated, and dorothy became a single mother, wh...

Sorkens screen writing. i cant say aappreciate his take on ethics. what he says there is just wrong. theres nothing in the public interest in these documents. we have reported the stories involving these documents that showed a gender pay gap between two co-presidents of sony pictures studio. >> yeah, we have them being paid less than their co-stars. >> exactly. weve pointed to race-based pay disparities, the failure of sony micktures to protect their identifiable information which is something ...

If theyre wrong, well find out in either direction, so im looking forward to this little laboratory of minimum wage policy. josh barro. >> arizona governor jan brewer, a republican, forcing the medicaid expansion through her same party legislature in a knockdown, drag-out fight, first saying shell veto any bill without it and then will veto any until they expand it. members of her party called it a traitor, but she got it done. as chris put on his show at the time, she was a baller. >> she was a...

Saying shell veto any bill without it and then will veto any until they expand it. members of her party called it a traitor, but she got it done. as chris put on his show at the time, she was a baller. >> she was a baller. nancy giles. >> it was a wonderful, wonderful year culturally for black film. >> absolutely. >> over 18 -- i think 18 at last count, with black leads or directed by african-americans, including "12 years a slave," "best man holiday," "fruitvale station" and "black nativity." a...

The movie was going to be about the civil rights movement. i asked him how he felt about the civil rights movement as it was happening. he said, i was too old for it. i really think that in that answer the creation of the character cecil gaines -- he was really born in that moment. that really became somewhat of the heart of the character in the movie. >> well, you have so many great characters in this movie, danny. i think the screen writing must have brought them to life. oprah winfrey was fab...

summer games, right? so much fun. good morning, everyone. welcome to early, early "early start." >> up first, debby doing more damage and dumping more rain than some full-blown hurricanes. the deadly storm now downgradeds to a tropical depression where is slashes across florida where a state of emergency is still in place. that storm is second to bring rains to florida for another day. george, i was reading this morning the folks here were really scared because the water came in so qui...

Screen writing. were the best at that. the quarterback of the buffalo bills is a harvard man. matt burke, an offensive lineman, a long time in the nfl, a harvard man and theres some great harvard hockey players who went pro but typically no it is not exactly a pro sports factory. >> do we have bryan chu yet on sound? we dont. no word from the control room. >> sorry. >> hes the first asian-american -- what is his first miss in the nba. >> he might be the first taiwanese american. not the first as...

>> thats true. >> in the grueling sport of. >> water polo. >> oh. all right. >> i, like jeremy lin i was not drafted by the pros. >> i played the american sport of baseball, but i did not make it to the varsity. i just played freshman baseball. i was afraid to attempt to make the varsity. thats one of the things that caught me is the harvard element of this because we know how unlikely it is to go from harvard college to a professional sport. the world knows it, in fact. >> unless by professiona...

His friends and writing partner eyen mcclellan hunter acted as the front man for the team taking the official writing credit and secretly sharing the payment with trum bow. in mcclellan hunter himself was later black listed. in 1992,he to add trum bows name to the writing credits of roman holiday". the academy then recognized that the film was really written by dalton trum bow and his partner ian mcclellan hunter along with john diten. it was too late for dalton trum bow to enjoy. he died 60 yea...

Of roman holiday". it is the credits that the industry considers the official history of screen writing. chris kaiser, president of the writers guild of america west, the president, said its not in our power to erase the mistakes or the suffering of the past, but we can make amends. we can pledge not to the fall prey again to the dangerous power of fear or to the impulse to censor. even if than pledge is only a hope, and in the end, we can give credit where credit is due. in acknowledging the co...