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  • Larry Gelman in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 22, 1988

    Interviewing actor Larry Gelman.

  • Judy Tenuta

    Judy Tenuta discusses being a Love Goddess

    Self-proclaimed Love Goddess, Judy Tenuta, was also known as the Aphrodite of the Accordion, to her fans. Tenuta talks about how she saw Elvis in her Cheese Whiz and he told her to start her own religion, which is known as Judyism. Calling herself the Love Goddess came to be after her brothers literally kissed her hands and feet when she asked them to. This is a very short conversation that ends abruptly.

  • Interviewing Werner Klemperer, son of German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer

    Aug. 23, 1993
  • Interviewing three members from the cast of a production of "The Grapes of Wrath"

    Sep. 29, 1988
  • Interviewing the cast of the Goodman Theatre's production of the Thornton Wilder play "Skin of our Teeth, Play in Three Acts"

    Oct. 7, 1992
  • Interviewing the cast of the Goodman Theatre's production of the Hart Moss play "Light up the Sky"

    Apr. 2, 1997
  • Interviewing the cast of a production of Dylan Thomas' play, "Under Milk Wood"

    Mar. 25, 1992

    Running at Cafe Voltaire in Chicago, the show is produced by actor-directors Michael Barto and Peter Cieply.

  • Interviewing Susan Nussbaum and Michael Pachovas

    Aug. 28, 1981

    Susan Nussbaum, founder of Access Living and Michael Pachovas founder of Disabled Prisoners Program discuss the upcoming Disabled Americans Freedom Rally in the backdrop of the International Year of the Disabled Persons and President Reagan's budget cuts. Society needs to understand that expenditures are required to secure the rights of disabled people to live active, productive lives. They need to be able to get out of their apartment buildings or homes, travel on sidewalks and ride buses. That may require access ramps, working elevators, cut curbs, and hydraulic buses to lower steps.

  • Judy Tenuta

    Interviewing stand-up comic and actress Judy Tenuta. This is an un-aired master tape

  • Interviewing playwright John Guare and the cast from the cabaret musical review "Hey, Stay a While"

    Feb. 15, 1984
  • Interviewing Martha Schlamme and Alvin Epstein

    Aug. 13, 1980
  • Interviewing Lutheran minister and political activist Daniel Solberg and his brother, actor and political activist David Soul, about their work with union activists and unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania

    Apr. 10, 1986
  • Interviewing Jerome Kilty and Jamie Cromwell, two actors appearing in a production of the Eugene O'Neill play, "The Iceman Cometh"

    Sep. 26, 1990
  • Interviewing Henry Walton, Jackie White, Vicki Lewis and Gina Blumenfeld

    Jun. 3, 1988

    Four cast members from a production of the play "The Greatest Story Never Told; A Tale of the Greatest Life Ever Lived."

  • Interviewing cast members of the Remains Theatre Ensemble production of the play, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

    Sep. 16, 1991
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