American Playhouse

- Season 8

(1989)

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

The heroine is a rebellious only child of a stuffy Upper East side family who struggle s to assert her independence. She (and her wildly curly hair) bravely fights her overbearing mother's efforts to tame her, and proudly works in a small esoteric publishing house and has a leftist neighbor/ boyfriend and a wacky best friend. She resists her mother's efforts to set her up with a suitable young man, but eventually finds that she was wrong about him.

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Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands.

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Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.

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In 1900, if you wanted to be a writer in California, you had better be a man. Mary Austin sought to prove herself against incredible odds as a poet, novelist, and playwright, teaching feminist ideals and becoming one of the foremost writers to document the complex culture and heritage of the American Southwest.

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