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Kelly Reichardt
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"Certain Women" Annie Oakley, Belle Star and Calamity Jane are just a few of the women who helped create the legend of the Wild West. Meanwhile, however, thousands of others tamed the west on their farms and homesteads without firing a single bullet. Today’s western women don’t have to carry a six-shooter or get their water from a well, but that doesn’t mean their lives are easy. A new movie takes a look at four women in modern-day Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and newcomer Lily Gladstone and is based on stories by the Montana writer Maile Meloy. Madeleine speaks to the director.
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Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."
The Treatment
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The Business
In 'Speechless,' Scott Silveri combines comedy, family & disability Scott Silveri has written and produced sitcoms for more than 20 years. In all that time, he never encountered a TV family that looked anything like the one he grew up in -- with a mom, a dad...and a brother with cerebral palsy. He changed that with his show Speechless on ABC. Silveri tells us about looking to his own past for stories, and why he was determined to make a family comedy and not just a "disability show."