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And even on the page, I say: In an instant, it goes from 2019 to 1968. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is our fundamental issue, I think, between black people and police. The police want us to bow down and respect them. But also: Respect has to be earned. 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Dolly’s concert-attending fan base is composed of people we don’t think of having a lot in common these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got evangelical church ladies standing next to men in drag — Dolly is massive in the LGBTQ community — standing next to guys in trucker hats,” Abumrad says. “All of these different communities, on either side of the ‘culture wars,’ all standing together, shoulder-to-shoulder, singing the same song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s Ari Shapiro spoke to Abumrad about reexamining Dolly’s cultural legacy, including her overlooked musical genius, her ability to exist as a container for so many ideas about America and her unexpected rejection of the label “feminist.” Hear the story in the audio player above and read on for an edited transcript of their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ari Shapiro: To talk for a minute about Dolly, the person and the musician, rather than Dolly, the metaphor and the symbol: You, in the very first episode, talk about the way she is perceived, the jokes about her appearance — the jokes she makes \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>herself\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>. And then you pivot to the argument that she is among the best songwriters of the 20th century. One expert tells you that, if she were alive at a different time, she would have been like Mozart. How do you reconcile those two aspects of Dolly Parton, the genius and the punchline?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jad Abumrad:\u003c/strong> I don’t quite know how to reconcile them. But it does strike you when you look back at 1960s Dolly and 1970s Dolly, and you look at the number of songs that she’s writing — I mean, to say she was prolific doesn’t even capture it. She is writing No. 1 song after No. 1 song. Some of the greatest songs in pop music, they’re falling out of her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me in one interview — she wasn’t sure if this was true — but she may have written “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” on the same night. “I Will Always Love You” is a song that hit No. 1 in three consecutive decades [and] almost did it a fourth time. “Jolene” is a song that was translated into, I think, 40 different languages, and there are 200 different covers. And that happened on the \u003cem>same night\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So why does somebody who can do that need to be a caricature, need to be a parody? Is it just the reality of existing as a woman in America and in Nashville at that time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I think so. I mean, that’s certainly what she said to me. If you consider Dolly in 1967, when she really hits the scene as the “girl singer” on \u003cem>The Porter Wagoner Show\u003c/em> — at that time, there were no lead roles for women. I mean, the female singer was sort of a decorative aspect of the male show, and that didn’t leave a lot of place for someone like Dolly, so she perhaps had to sort of play the male game for a while. But I think she would tell you, as she famously says, that it’s just what made her comfortable. It’s just how she wanted to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The first episode of the podcast has already sparked a vigorous discussion about feminism, and what it means to call yourself a feminist. Because in your conversations with Dolly, she really bristled at that label.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shot that right down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Her quote to you was, “I think of myself as a woman in business. 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And I think when she saw that we were taking her really, really seriously as a songwriter and as a person who is one of the great creative spirits of the last 60 years, she was willing to answer almost any question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The series seems to present this big question of whether Dolly can heal the divide in our nation — whether there is some kind of secret sauce in Dolly Parton that can solve the problems that face America today. Did you feel like you came away with an answer to that question?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, that’s sort of the question that never resolves for me. The image that runs through the entire series is what it is like to be at a Dolly concert. The fact that that space even exists in America right now is heartening to me. [Now,] to argue the other side — I mean, are these people really talking to each other? Are they arguing about politics and coming to some new understanding? Probably not. 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"content": "\u003cp>Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/431997207/a-diary-unlocked-a-teenage-coming-of-age-story-put-on-film\">Marielle Heller\u003c/a> remembers tuning into \u003cem>Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood\u003c/em> as a kid, but it wasn’t until she was an adult watching the show with her 3-year-old son that she fully appreciated the host’s gentle, direct manner. Watching an episode in which Rogers finds that a pet fish has died, Heller was struck by the way he addressed the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t afraid of any of the hardest parts of childhood or talking about the most uncomfortable things,” she says. 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So Matthew, he is somebody who moves very quickly. His mind is always racing, and he’s got a lot of energy pulsing through his body, so the idea was, in our rehearsals and also in the way that we shot these scenes, between these two men, it was about really kind of controlling time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there were pauses, they were carefully crafted. I had to kind of force them to pause even longer than they were comfortable pausing. But it was also about what was happening in those pauses. What are the emotional back-and-forths that are happening? What was just penetrated? What memory is being triggered? What are you thinking about in that moment, and when will you respond, and how carefully will you respond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On watching the \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Mister Rogers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> episode about death with her son \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were having a snow day, and so he was home from school. But it was a day that I kind of set aside that I was going to watch a lot of episodes of \u003cem>Mister Rogers\u003c/em>. So I asked Wylie if he wanted to watch some episodes with me. And I let him pick out based on the kind of thumbnails on the Internet. And he picked the fish one because he was very obsessed with underwater stuff, ocean stuff. But I knew just looking at the icon that the fish one, this is the episode about death. And I thought, “Are we going to go here? Okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in the episode, Mister Rogers goes to feed the fish and one of the fish is dead. And he tries to revive it and he puts it in some salt water and he sloshes it around and it kind of limply sloshes around and he says, “It looks like it’s moving, but it’s not actually moving.” And he buries the fish. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was a moment that would become seared into American cultural history. Sacheen Littlefeather, an Apache and the President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, stepped onto the 1973 Academy Awards stage, and very politely refused to take Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar for \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em>, from a bemused-looking Roger Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Littlefeather calmly explained that Brando was unable to “accept this very generous award” because of “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television in movie re-runs,” boos immediately erupted in some corners of the room. Littlefeather stayed calm, offering a simple “Excuse me,” before audience cheers drowned out the objections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been two years since the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/native-american-activists-occupy-alcatraz-island-45-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indians of All Tribes\u003c/a>” had ceased their 19-month occupation of Alcatraz, but Brando had visited the island during that period and become so deeply concerned about the Native American cause, he remained outspoken on their behalf for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13889944']“I don’t think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPDQ5MlLxE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brando told Dick Cavett\u003c/a> in 1973. “How deeply these people are injured… Children… seeing Indians represented as savage, vicious, ugly, nasty, treacherous, drunken. They grow up with only a negative image of themselves and it lasts a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brando’s engagement was a perfect example of how support for Indigenous rights underwent a momentous and visible shift during one of the most socially turbulent times in recent American history. “For centuries, most Americans and their government believed Indians were an obstacle to national progress or, by the mid-twentieth century, anachronisms which had no place in the modern world,” writes Sherry L. Smith in \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hippies-Indians-Fight-Red-Power/dp/0199855595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hippies, Indians and the Fight For Red Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “Extinguishing all remnants of native life characterized federal policy by the 1950s. By the 1960s, they found support outside their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major factor in garnering that support was the Alcatraz occupation and the celebrities who went out of their way to draw attention to it and offer financial support. Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example, donated $10,000 that, among other things, enabled activists to buy a boat (reportedly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/native-american-activists-occupy-alcatraz-island-45-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Clearwater\u003c/a>“) to get supplies to and from the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda also \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=vHHbsjThmKAC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=jane+fonda+donated+generators+to+alcatraz&source=bl&ots=_LWUGlGHM8&sig=ACfU3U1cVED2zNFNKWvXfFauMLAX_i_kcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzwfrkpdnlAhXJGDQIHbuuBA8Q6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=jane%20fonda%20donated%20generators%20to%20alcatraz&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spent a night on Alcatraz\u003c/a>, reportedly bringing her own sleeping bag, smoking weed with the occupiers, and donating a rototiller for gardening, as well as six generators—much needed at the time, after Alcatraz’s power was cut by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsa.gov/blog/2016/06/17/Celebrating-67-Years-of-American-Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General Services Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13882943']“She got on the Indian bandwagon, but did not come to Alcatraz empty-handed like a lot of big shots,” a Blackfoot activist named \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=vHHbsjThmKAC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=jane+fonda+donated+generators+to+alcatraz&source=bl&ots=_LWUGlGHM8&sig=ACfU3U1cVED2zNFNKWvXfFauMLAX_i_kcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzwfrkpdnlAhXJGDQIHbuuBA8Q6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=jane%20fonda%20donated%20generators%20to%20alcatraz&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morris later noted\u003c/a> of Fonda. “She was an answer to the Alcatraz Indian prayers, giving us some light and refrigeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fonda subsequently visited Sacramento’s State Assembly to support a resolution to turn Alcatraz into a Native American cultural center. The measure passed but was later defeated in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this kind of celebrity involvement, prominent talk shows got on board too. Dick Cavett talked about the occupation, and Grace Thorpe, the negotiator and PR person for the Alcatraz protesters was a guest on the \u003cem>Merv Griffin Show\u003c/em>. Griffin also filmed a short segment on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the occupation’s famous supporters made perfect sense—a visit from comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory shocked no-one, Gregory having previously gone to jail for supporting \u003ca href=\"https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/dick-gregory-friend-of-indian-country-walks-on-cBcL_NPYfkWwoLtcs7wMOg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“fish-in” protests\u003c/a> by Pacific-Northwest tribes—others were more surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13869598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135.jpg\" alt=\"'Flap' starred Anthony Quinn and referenced the Alcatraz occupation in its promotional materials.\" width=\"300\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135-160x314.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Flap’ starred Anthony Quinn and referenced the Alcatraz occupation in its promotional materials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000063/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Quinn \u003c/a>took a break from filming \u003cem>Flap \u003c/em>near Stockton, to make a high profile visit to the island. As an actor of Mexican-Irish descent who played Indigenous people throughout his movie career, Quinn’s position was, by 2019 standards, a problematic one. \u003cem>Flap\u003c/em> itself was based on a book titled \u003cem>Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian, \u003c/em>written by \u003ca href=\"https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/clair-huffaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clair Huffaker\u003c/a>, a white man who traditionally wrote about the Old West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movie took major steps to sympathize with the plight of marginalized Native people and set Quinn’s Flapping Eagle character up as a hero facing impossible odds. Promotion for the movie capitalized on the Alcatraz occupation, with posters that read: “A warning to the Mayor: \u003cem>Flap\u003c/em> is here! The Indians have already claimed Alcatraz. City Hall may be next. You have been warned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his Alcatraz visit, Quinn, who financially contributed to Native American causes, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=ovASzp51gmcC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=Hippies,+Indians+and+the+Fight+For+Red+Power+anthony+quinn&source=bl&ots=3p9I_pi8uS&sig=ACfU3U065XJCFs0ntmTWH5gjCqcyHkN8tA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDx8GhyOXlAhWVvJ4KHYuyD8gQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Hippies%2C%20Indians%20and%20the%20Fight%20For%20Red%20Power%20anthony%20quinn&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told a press conference\u003c/a> he was \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19691215.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impressed\u003c/a> by the occupiers’ aims. “Alcatraz is a small price,” he said, “for all the sins we committed and indignities we forced on the Indians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the mainland, the counterculture was rallying too. On December 12, 1969, a benefit for the occupiers took place at Stanford’s Memorial Chapel, headlined by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffy Sainte-Marie\u003c/a>. (The singer went on to be the first Indigenous person to win an Academy Award, for writing 1982’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCk066o9sU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up Where We Belong\u003c/a>.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Berkeley’s Malvina Reynolds (most famous for writing the hit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Boxes\u003c/a>“) donated $1,000 in royalties from her song “Alcatraz (Pelican Island)” towards the San Francisco American Indian Center, which had \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/professor-lead-re-establishment-american-indian-cultural-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burned down\u003c/a> shortly before the occupation began. “Alcatraz isn’t good enough for them,” Reynolds noted at the time, “but it certainly is a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FPjQbXvazY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As noted in \u003cem>Hippies, Indians and the Fight For Red Power, \u003c/em>much of the progress made for Native visibility in the ’70s may not have occurred without the protesters’ time on the island, and the high profile support it prompted. “In terms of capturing national and even international attention,” the book states. “Alcatraz stands out as a critical turning point for Indian reform. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brando’s engagement was a perfect example of how support for Indigenous rights underwent a momentous and visible shift during one of the most socially turbulent times in recent American history. “For centuries, most Americans and their government believed Indians were an obstacle to national progress or, by the mid-twentieth century, anachronisms which had no place in the modern world,” writes Sherry L. Smith in \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hippies-Indians-Fight-Red-Power/dp/0199855595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hippies, Indians and the Fight For Red Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “Extinguishing all remnants of native life characterized federal policy by the 1950s. By the 1960s, they found support outside their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major factor in garnering that support was the Alcatraz occupation and the celebrities who went out of their way to draw attention to it and offer financial support. Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example, donated $10,000 that, among other things, enabled activists to buy a boat (reportedly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/native-american-activists-occupy-alcatraz-island-45-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Clearwater\u003c/a>“) to get supplies to and from the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda also \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=vHHbsjThmKAC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=jane+fonda+donated+generators+to+alcatraz&source=bl&ots=_LWUGlGHM8&sig=ACfU3U1cVED2zNFNKWvXfFauMLAX_i_kcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzwfrkpdnlAhXJGDQIHbuuBA8Q6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=jane%20fonda%20donated%20generators%20to%20alcatraz&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spent a night on Alcatraz\u003c/a>, reportedly bringing her own sleeping bag, smoking weed with the occupiers, and donating a rototiller for gardening, as well as six generators—much needed at the time, after Alcatraz’s power was cut by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsa.gov/blog/2016/06/17/Celebrating-67-Years-of-American-Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General Services Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“She got on the Indian bandwagon, but did not come to Alcatraz empty-handed like a lot of big shots,” a Blackfoot activist named \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=vHHbsjThmKAC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=jane+fonda+donated+generators+to+alcatraz&source=bl&ots=_LWUGlGHM8&sig=ACfU3U1cVED2zNFNKWvXfFauMLAX_i_kcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzwfrkpdnlAhXJGDQIHbuuBA8Q6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=jane%20fonda%20donated%20generators%20to%20alcatraz&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morris later noted\u003c/a> of Fonda. “She was an answer to the Alcatraz Indian prayers, giving us some light and refrigeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fonda subsequently visited Sacramento’s State Assembly to support a resolution to turn Alcatraz into a Native American cultural center. The measure passed but was later defeated in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this kind of celebrity involvement, prominent talk shows got on board too. Dick Cavett talked about the occupation, and Grace Thorpe, the negotiator and PR person for the Alcatraz protesters was a guest on the \u003cem>Merv Griffin Show\u003c/em>. Griffin also filmed a short segment on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the occupation’s famous supporters made perfect sense—a visit from comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory shocked no-one, Gregory having previously gone to jail for supporting \u003ca href=\"https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/dick-gregory-friend-of-indian-country-walks-on-cBcL_NPYfkWwoLtcs7wMOg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“fish-in” protests\u003c/a> by Pacific-Northwest tribes—others were more surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13869598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135.jpg\" alt=\"'Flap' starred Anthony Quinn and referenced the Alcatraz occupation in its promotional materials.\" width=\"300\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/MPW-92135-160x314.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Flap’ starred Anthony Quinn and referenced the Alcatraz occupation in its promotional materials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000063/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Quinn \u003c/a>took a break from filming \u003cem>Flap \u003c/em>near Stockton, to make a high profile visit to the island. As an actor of Mexican-Irish descent who played Indigenous people throughout his movie career, Quinn’s position was, by 2019 standards, a problematic one. \u003cem>Flap\u003c/em> itself was based on a book titled \u003cem>Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian, \u003c/em>written by \u003ca href=\"https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/clair-huffaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clair Huffaker\u003c/a>, a white man who traditionally wrote about the Old West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movie took major steps to sympathize with the plight of marginalized Native people and set Quinn’s Flapping Eagle character up as a hero facing impossible odds. Promotion for the movie capitalized on the Alcatraz occupation, with posters that read: “A warning to the Mayor: \u003cem>Flap\u003c/em> is here! The Indians have already claimed Alcatraz. City Hall may be next. You have been warned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his Alcatraz visit, Quinn, who financially contributed to Native American causes, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=ovASzp51gmcC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=Hippies,+Indians+and+the+Fight+For+Red+Power+anthony+quinn&source=bl&ots=3p9I_pi8uS&sig=ACfU3U065XJCFs0ntmTWH5gjCqcyHkN8tA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDx8GhyOXlAhWVvJ4KHYuyD8gQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Hippies%2C%20Indians%20and%20the%20Fight%20For%20Red%20Power%20anthony%20quinn&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told a press conference\u003c/a> he was \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19691215.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impressed\u003c/a> by the occupiers’ aims. “Alcatraz is a small price,” he said, “for all the sins we committed and indignities we forced on the Indians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the mainland, the counterculture was rallying too. On December 12, 1969, a benefit for the occupiers took place at Stanford’s Memorial Chapel, headlined by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffy Sainte-Marie\u003c/a>. (The singer went on to be the first Indigenous person to win an Academy Award, for writing 1982’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCk066o9sU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up Where We Belong\u003c/a>.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Berkeley’s Malvina Reynolds (most famous for writing the hit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Boxes\u003c/a>“) donated $1,000 in royalties from her song “Alcatraz (Pelican Island)” towards the San Francisco American Indian Center, which had \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/professor-lead-re-establishment-american-indian-cultural-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burned down\u003c/a> shortly before the occupation began. “Alcatraz isn’t good enough for them,” Reynolds noted at the time, “but it certainly is a first step.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1FPjQbXvazY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1FPjQbXvazY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As noted in \u003cem>Hippies, Indians and the Fight For Red Power, \u003c/em>much of the progress made for Native visibility in the ’70s may not have occurred without the protesters’ time on the island, and the high profile support it prompted. “In terms of capturing national and even international attention,” the book states. “Alcatraz stands out as a critical turning point for Indian reform. 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Between lethal gases, fast-flowing rivers of sewage and the risk of getting lost in the darkness, you’ll probably be glad to take this tour \u003cem>virtually\u003c/em> via your headphones, rather than IRL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secret-tunnels-under-san-francisco/id1172473406?i=1000455577910\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13869926 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.” This special episode from \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>’s weekly podcast immerses the listener in the world of Aerial: a Bay area nurse who lost her sight after using tampered eyedrops. Navigating her new reality, she found purpose and meaning in the hobby she’d enjoyed since she was a teen: beekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen as Aerial explains how she knows whether her swarm—she calls them “her girls”—are happy, and how to hear their “waggle dance” (the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen). After experiencing this episode, you’ll never hear bees again the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-sound-to-keep-her-hives-happy/id1314750545?i=1000452376183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">\u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>‘s Jonathan Van Ness on Turning Red States Pink\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most engrossing podcast interviews are the ones where you feel you’ve been teleported into the room with the people in question—and this 2018 interview with the infamously personable \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em> star Jonathan Van Ness on KQED’s pop culture podcast \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em> is no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation that ranges from raucous to heartfelt and intimate, Van Ness talks to hosts Emmanuel Hapsis, Jamedra Brown-Fleischman and Carly Severn about growing up gay in a small town, dealing with online trolls, the healing power of figure skating and a particularly controversial moment from \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>’s second season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink/id1041117499?i=1000407027183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Joy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nfrom \u003cem>Truth Be Told \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1200x600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it OK to feel joy when it feels like the world is burning? In the first episode of KQED’s advice show made by people of color for people of color, host Tonya Mosley brings us to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan—the “epicenter of pleasure in the midst of turmoil,” as she calls it. Mosley sits down with her grandmother Ernestine Mosley and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestselling author Adrienne Maree Brown for some hard questions, deep laughs, and much-needed affirmations about why it’s not only OK to feel joy, but it’s absolutely necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And stay tuned: \u003cem>Truth Be Told\u003c/em> returns for a second season in early 2020!\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joy-episode-1/id1462216572?i=1000438248776\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780279/native-american-occupation-at-alcatraz-50-years\">‘We’re Still Here’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode of\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>, KQED reporter Alice Woelfle follows along with Native people from across the West Coast in a ceremonial canoe journey around Alcatraz Island. First, we hear the building of a tule boat, then the sound of paddle hitting the water as members of different tribes, territories, communities and families embark on their paddle around the island before returning to shore to be greeted by Ohlone elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paddle commemorated the 50-year anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz, a movement which lasted 19 months and brought widespread visibility for American Indian civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780279/native-american-occupation-at-alcatraz-50-years\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-still-here-canoe-journey-to-alcatraz-to-remember/id1350043452?i=1000453734022\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859970/rightnowish-miko-marks-and-the-oakland-rollers\">Oakland’s Rollerskating Country Singer\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where do country singing and roller skating collide? On a small cul-de-sac on the southern side of Lake Merritt in Oakland, according to musician Miko Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I put these skates on, I feel like I’m a kid again,” Marks says in this episode of \u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em>, KQED’s new arts and culture podcast hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw. After nearly a decade of touring the nation as a country singer, Marks’s love for roller skating completely transformed her sense of play—and her music. Put on your skates (and your headphones!) and listen to the full episode to hear more about Marks’s new sound and new take on life with wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859970/rightnowish-miko-marks-and-the-oakland-rollers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oaklands-rollerskating-country-singer/id1482187648?i=1000455674283\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54326/childhood-as-resume-building-why-play-needs-a-comeback\">Childhood as ‘Resume-Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>MindShift\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember when you were a kid and there was a designated time just for playing? 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"content": "\u003cp>Actor Reese Witherspoon became famous in her 20s after starring in films like \u003cem>Election \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Legally Blonde\u003c/em>, but by the time she entered her 30s, the film landscape had shifted. DVD sales had shrunk and smaller, female-centered movies were in short supply. It was nearly impossible to find good leading roles for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witherspoon began asking different movie studios what projects they were developing for women. “With the exclusion of one studio, everybody said ‘Nothing. Nothing with a female lead,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Witherspoon decided to start a production company and began adapting books with complex female characters into films and TV shows. The idea was to create better parts for women—and to help female authors get their stories sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witherspoon’s company spearheaded the adaptation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/09/30/352688538/gone-girl-a-missing-wife-and-a-cloud-of-suspicion\">\u003cem>Gone Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/12/05/367996411/a-wild-trek-made-a-bit-too-neatly\">\u003cem>Wild \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730275468/with-1-huge-lie-revealed-big-little-lies-season-2-takes-a-slow-burn-strategy\">\u003cem>Big Little Lies\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>among other titles. Looking back, Witherspoon describes her shift into producing as “betting on myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what to do,” she says. “I know every producer in Hollywood. I know how to get a movie from book to script to screen, and I know how to market it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Witherspoon’s current company, Hello Sunshine, is bringing a new project to screen. She’s an executive producer and co-star of the Apple TV+ series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774850935/tv-review-the-morning-show-from-apple-tv\">\u003cem>The Morning Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>which centers on a morning news show that’s shaken up when its male anchor is fired after being accused of sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witherspoon acknowledges certain parallels between the misconduct portrayed in the series and the allegations against real-life TV hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768527936/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-in-new-book-former-nbc-star-denies-false-stories\">Matt Lauer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/19/524736631/bill-oreilly-is-out-at-fox-news\">Bill O’Reilly\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/20/565542031/charlie-rose-is-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-eight-women\">Charlie Rose.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought it would have been remiss if we didn’t address [those issues] in our show,” she says. “Sometimes the world is so crazy, TV shows and movies are a great way to try and understand where we’re at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA7D4_qU9jo\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/570698249/-metoo\">\u003cstrong>#MeToo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> movement, and being shocked to learn of the extent of sexual misconduct in Hollywood\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t have any idea what other people’s experiences were. I’d only had my own experiences, and I definitely dealt with harassment. And I had dealt with that privately and in my own way with my family when I was young, when I was really young and starting in the business. I didn’t have any understanding of the widespread abuse that women were experiencing—and not just women, many, many people were experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really took that moment in time for all of us to start talking. Because you have to remember, as an actress for hire, usually I was the only woman on a set for, I would say, the majority of my 30-year career. I’ve been the only woman in a cast or one of a handful of women in a crew or a cast. So when all of that started happening, women started to gather and really start talking to each other and sharing stories. And I have to say, I was blown away. I did not know the kind of experiences that people were having. And I was in shock. I think a lot of us were in shock. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m enormously grateful to the women who spoke up about their experiences and really opened our hearts and our minds and our eyes to what was happening with such regularity, and the journalists who worked so hard to break these stories, despite whatever corporate interference they were having. 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Also \u003cstrong>Moppet\u003c/strong>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Radio Christmas\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Lifetime, 11/9, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keshia Knight Pulliam plays a DJ who is forced to relocate from her Philadelphia broadcasting digs to the small town of—you guessed it—Bethlehem, and it turns out \u003cstrong>this little town is OK\u003c/strong>. Also, \u003cstrong>everybody cares too much about Christmas\u003c/strong>, in that there is apparently a “year-round Christmas station.” (You can kind of forgive them because it’s Bethlehem, I suppose.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Rock N’ Roll Christmas \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(UPTV, 11/10, 7pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estranged mother and daughter singers \u003cstrong>rush to get ready\u003c/strong> in time to write a Christmas single together. Will they succeed? I would say it’s fa-la-la-la-likely. \u003cstrong>There’s probably music!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Mistletoe Secret \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Hallmark, 11/10, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/N8oliBufPuY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/N8oliBufPuY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Remember Kellie Pickler from \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>? This is what she does now! She plays a woman whose hometown is losing tourists until a \u003cstrong>grumpy journalist\u003c/strong> agrees to write an article about it, and she has the chance to \u003cstrong>help her hometown\u003c/strong>! Nostalgic figure \u003cstrong>Patrick Duffy\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A Sweet Christmas Romance \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Lifetime, 11/10, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A food stylist returns to her hometown, where she has the opportunity to participate in a baking contest to win ownership of an \u003cstrong>adorable small business\u003c/strong>, her favorite bakery. Of course, there’s a guy who will be her \u003cstrong>professional competitor\u003c/strong>. Will they fall in love? MIGHT THEY?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A Christmas Miracle \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 11/14, 9 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A journalist tries to create a Christmas miracle. \u003cstrong>Moppet!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Christmas a La Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Lifetime, 11/15, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to save the \u003cstrong>adorable small business\u003c/strong>, a family dairy farm? With a \u003cstrong>high-stakes competition\u003c/strong> involving ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>One Fine Christmas \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(OWN, 11/15 9 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An impressive ensemble cast including Rick Fox and his daughter Sasha, Vanessa Williams (the \u003cem>Melrose Place \u003c/em>one, not the “Save The Best For Last”/\u003cem>Ugly Betty\u003c/em> one) and Marla Gibbs shows up for this multi-thread story about people living on Christmas Street (where probably \u003cstrong>everybody cares too much about Christmas\u003c/strong>) who have to navigate various hurdles to create \u003cstrong>a perfect Christmas\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Christmas Under the Stars\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Hallmark 11/16, 9 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/knF-OXlZHVc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/knF-OXlZHVc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>He’s a \u003cstrong>suit man\u003c/strong> who loses his job and goes to work on a Christmas tree lot despite his \u003cstrong>missing Christmas spirit\u003c/strong>. You get no points for figuring out what happens when he meets Julie, “an astronomy teacher who’s always looked to the stars for hope.” \u003cstrong>Beloved celebrity\u003c/strong> Clarke Peters!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Christmas in Louisiana\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Lifetime, 11/16, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well she’s a former Miss Christmas in her town, a title that exists because \u003cstrong>everybody cares too much about Christmas\u003c/strong>, and she goes back home and runs into the former Mister Christmas, and they might perhaps fall in love and presumably wear matching wreath crowns. \u003cstrong>Beloved celebrities \u003c/strong>Barry Bostwick, Moira Kelly and Dee Wallace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Christmas Cupcakes \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(UPTV, 11/17, 7 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cKtKoj-6Uao'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cKtKoj-6Uao'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>How to save the family bakery, a truly \u003cstrong>adorable small business\u003c/strong>? 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The most important thing to know about this one is that \u003cstrong>nostalgic figure \u003c/strong>Grant Show, former \u003cem>Melrose Place \u003c/em>hottie, is now playing Hot Gray Hair types, and it’s possible that he looks better than ever. Here, most of his scenes seem to be with a cute dog. Also \u003cstrong>beloved celebrity \u003c/strong>Lolita Davidovich. \u003cstrong>Horrible pun title.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Random Acts of Christmas \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Lifetime, 11/17, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigative journalist (not sure if she’s \u003cstrong>grumpy\u003c/strong>) tries to figure out why there are “random acts of Christmas” taking place. A man “ignites her Christmas spirit.” But he “may not be the man he claims to be.” So he could be a bank robber or an elf; we just don’t know. \u003cstrong>Nostalgic figures\u003c/strong> Patrick Duffy and Jaclyn Smith (Duffy’s pulling a twofer!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 11/17, 9 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/evL3bYs1xFg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/evL3bYs1xFg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>About a couple brought together by the \u003cstrong>actual supernatural force\u003c/strong> that is “Godwinks,” which are literally winks from God in the theology of the books that inspired this movie as well as a previous one just called \u003cem>A Godwink Christmas\u003c/em>. \u003cstrong>Beloved celebrity \u003c/strong>Kathie Lee Gifford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Knight Before Christmas\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Netflix, 11/21)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-JtwROpSVWc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-JtwROpSVWc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you were a medieval knight and you were magically transported to Christmas in contemporary Ohio, wouldn’t \u003cem>you \u003c/em>hope to run into Vanessa Hudgens? 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So would this guy, and it happens to him thanks to the \u003cstrong>actual supernatural force \u003c/strong>of time travel. \u003cstrong>Horrible pun title.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Magical Christmas Shoes \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Lifetime, 11/22, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the same movie as \u003cem>The Christmas Shoes\u003c/em>, based on the book \u003cem>The Christmas Shoes \u003c/em>which was based on the song “The Christmas Shoes.” No, this is \u003cem>The Magical Christmas Shoes\u003c/em>, and it’s something else entirely, but it appears to involve \u003cstrong>actual supernatural forces\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Carole’s Christmas\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (OWN, 11/22 9pm ET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The great and good Jackée Harry stars opposite Kimberly Elise in this story about a woman played by Elise who encounters \u003cstrong>actual supernatural forces\u003c/strong> that allow her to rediscover the true spirit of Christmas after she wishes to explore a different life. Harry appears to be her spiritual advisor in some manner, which makes Carole very lucky indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Twinkle All the Way \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Lifetime, 11/23, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s a woman in \u003cstrong>event planning\u003c/strong> who has to plan a Christmas wedding, which is pretty hard. 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He plays a \u003cstrong>suit man\u003c/strong> who prioritizes his job until the nanny he hired, who’s home in Memphis for the holidays, convinces him to stop and smell the peanut butter and bacon sandwiches at the famous \u003cstrong>location, location, location\u003c/strong>. \u003cstrong>Nostalgic figure \u003c/strong>Priscilla Presley!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Turkey Drop \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>(Freeform, 11/23, 9 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7O2vvd9Ze1s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7O2vvd9Ze1s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I had never heard the phrase “turkey dropped”—meaning “broken up with over the holidays, especially Thanksgiving”—and it seems truly terrible. 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They are played, we should note, by Chaley Rose and Rome Flynn, black leading actors on a channel that basically never used to have black leading actors but has some this year; Lifetime has significantly more and has for quite a while. \u003cstrong>There’s probably music!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Check Inn to Christmas\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Hallmark, 11/26, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/U52nc97kGnc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/U52nc97kGnc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Her family and his family own rival cozy inns (what could be a more \u003cstrong>adorable small business\u003c/strong>?) and might just fall in love even though they are \u003cstrong>professional competitors\u003c/strong>. \u003cstrong>Nostalgic figure \u003c/strong>Richard Karn! \u003cstrong>Horrible pun title\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A Very Vintage Christmas\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> (Lifetime, 11/27, 8 pmET)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/M5iCkgzggbw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/M5iCkgzggbw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Tia Mowry-Hardrict is in this one about a woman who owns the ultimate \u003cstrong>adorable small business\u003c/strong>: an antique shop. 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