Today, Leonard has quite a treat for you as he talks with Susan Silver about what is was like working as one of the only female writers on iconic sitcoms like “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Maude,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Partridge Family.”
As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, “She made it after all!” From another Midwestern town, Milwaukee, with all its 1960’s values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful career as one of the first women in TV sitcoms, and reinvented herself in different prominent arenas in New York.
On today's Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard's conversation is with Manona Rossol on lead exposure and its health problems. Monona Rossol is a chemist,...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard and Twyla Tharp discuss “Minimalism and Me” and her seminal dance performances from 1965 to 1971 that...
Today, Isaac Shapiro joins Leonard in conversation about living in Japan during World War II Isaac Shapiro was in his early teenage years when...