This one made me sad. The Carters were the first Presidential couple who I really connected with - - I admired their sincerity and authenticity. Rosalynn Carter died the other day at the age of 96. The NY Times described her as the most politically active First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. She was an extraordinary person.
Here's a 60 Minutes interview from 1977:
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha