Transcript: So what’s different in this one? In a nutshell right? We’re going to go back to — she’s ambitious but she’s a rock star. He’s a rock idol. We’re still he’s jealous. It’s hard not to be jealous. We’re going to add the component that they write a song together. That is one of … Continue reading "18 What’s Different?…from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” [Video"

Many thanks to Janice Law of the American Women Writers National Museum who invited me to give a short talk on The Women of Early TV. I enjoyed sharing the names and careers of women like Peg Lynch, Gerturde Berg, Selma Diamond and D.C. Fontana to the members who gathered on Zoom last Wednesday morning. … Continue reading "04 Selma Diamond From Women in Early TV for the American Women Writers National Museum [Video]"

Watch the entire presentation – Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast | Episode # 29 here Transcript: Host: In your experience has it varied from company to company from executives to executives and just how much self-awareness they have about the fact that they’re not artists in that way. Rosanne: Well you know … Continue reading "29 Executives and Writers from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]"

Transcript: So she brings a journalistic background to this. She brings feminism to this in a way that maybe it didn’t appear as much in that this is Barbra Streisand not only is she acting in this piece, she’s producing it right? She’s the first woman producer on this movie. So she has final say … Continue reading "17 More On Joan Didion…from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” [Video]"

Many thanks to Janice Law of the American Women Writers National Museum who invited me to give a short talk on The Women of Early TV. I enjoyed sharing the names and careers of women like Peg Lynch, Gerturde Berg, Selma Diamond and D.C. Fontana to the members who gathered on Zoom last Wednesday morning. … Continue reading "03 Gertrude Berg From Women in Early TV for the American Women Writers National Museum [Video]"

Watch the entire presentation – Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast | Episode # 29 here Transcript: So fascinating but you’re right and what’s interesting is you just hit on the fact that here Shonda Rhimes who almost always has a hit but not always because it’s not science right? You can’t even … Continue reading "28 Art Is Very Subjective from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]"

In researching and writing my book on Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi and the unification of Italy (A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi)  I re-discovered the first American female war correspondent – Margaret Fuller — who I had first met in a college course on the Transcendentalists. … Continue reading "22 Giovanni Angelo, Marchese Ossoli from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]"

Transcript: We bring in Joan and John. So in this third version, we’re going to have another female writer with her imprint on this movie. She’s going to change a few things. She is a journalist. She’s worked in New York. She’s worked out of Sacramento. She’s covered the hippie generation. She particularly wrote this … Continue reading "16 Joan Didion…from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” [Video]"

Many thanks to Janice Law of the American Women Writers National Museum who invited me to give a short talk on The Women of Early TV. I enjoyed sharing the names and careers of women like Peg Lynch, Gerturde Berg, Selma Diamond and D.C. Fontana to the members who gathered on Zoom last Wednesday morning. … Continue reading "02 Peg Lynch from “VISIBLE STARS: Women in Early TV” for the American Women Writers National Museum [Video]"

Watch the entire presentation – Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast | Episode # 29 here Transcript: Queen Charlotte was so popular they’re doing a prequel about queen charlotte’s life because she is reportedly to be the first queen who was a woman of color in England but it wasn’t widely known right? … Continue reading "27 Queen Charlotte from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]"