Archive for the 'TV' Category
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
William Hurt to Marlee Matlin: “I Apologize for Any Pain I Caused”
Marlee Matlin is spilling. William Hurt is sorry.
Matlin has been making the rounds touting her new memoir, I’ll Scream Later, and raising some eyebrows with allegations that she was abused by Hurt during their two-year relationship that blossomed on the set of 1987’s Children [...]
Posted in Abuses, Domestic Violence, TV | 19 Comments »
Monday, March 16th, 2009
An oral Deaf writer attacked Luke of Amazing Race and Deaf people in her op-ed article First Person: I can so talk! Many deaf people can, despite what you might hear elsewhere
Apparently the fact that Luke was interpreted during an interview as saying that he wanted to disprove people’s perceptions and show that, “Deaf can [...]
Posted in ASL, Audism, Communication, Language, Oralism, TV | 30 Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Ask not what your Deaf Community can do for you; Ask what you can do for your Deaf Community.
1979-1984 Filed and won a Department of Justice complaint against D.C. Traffic Court for their refusal to provide interpreters for Deaf defendants in the Traffic Court. A major victory in the pre ADA days.
Advocated for a Deaf patient [...]
Posted in ADA, ASL, Civil Rights, Communication, Deaf Community, Gallaudet, Judicial System, Media, Police, TV | 23 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Dramatic life-and-death scene at NC School for the Deaf. Football coaches jumped over fence to rescue a CODA who trashed a motorcycle. Injured Motorcyclist is thankful, feeling prayers and finding a renewed faith in people.
“Freeman, 21, from Morganton, was riding past North Carolina School for the Deaf on Saturday when he decided to ride a wheelie in front of [...]
Posted in ASL, Deaf Community, Deaf School, TV | 3 Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Long before the movie made its appearance tonight, controversies broke out in the forums and blogs, with the c.i. camp heavily advocating the cochlear implants and the ASL camp decrying the use of the cochlear implants. In attempts to tear down the other camp while promoting their propaganda, both camps used misconceptions. Between these two camps, the [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf Community, Deaf Culture, TV | 84 Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Jeff Daniels And Marlee Matlin Star In Sweet Nothing In My Ear
Laura and Dan Miller (Matlin, Daniels) have been happily married, as well as best friends, for many years, but their relationship begins to change when their only son, Adam (Noah Valencia), loses his hearing at the age of four. Laura, who is deaf [...]
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant, Deaf Community, TV | 77 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Isn’t Marlee a Deaf by Choice? Cochlear Implant?
Since Marlee has some hearing, wouldn’t she still be a fine candidate for a Cochlear implant?
I don’t know very much about deaf culture, so maybe someone can shed a light why some people who CAN HEAR with Cochlear implant would not go ahead and get it?
I hear almost [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf Culture, TV | 29 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
This morning Marlee Matlin and the Dancers from MSSD Performing Arts Company were shown on Good Morning America.
Check out the videoclip: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4511890
It is not captioned. However, you can still see the bits of signing by by Marlee and the MSSD dancing entourage composed of both MSSD and KDES students.
Now people are learning that not just Marlee Matlin of [...]
Posted in ASL, TV | 21 Comments »