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Friday, December 17, 2021

‘The Music Man’ once had a disabled character. Then he was erased.

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From The New York Times : Pictured: Michael Phelan as Winthrop Paroo and Rebecca Luker as Marian Paroo in a 2000 revival of “The Music Man”...

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Please stop comparing disability mimicry to blackface by Dominick Evans

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Note: This is a reprint of Evans, D. (2017). "Please stop comparing disability mimicry to blackface," on the Dominick Evans websit...

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) partners with FilmDis for TV study

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: bhaller@towson.edu ...

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Annie Live! casts Alan Toy as Franklin D. Roosevelt — the first polio survivor to take on the role

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from People magazine : Annie Live! has found its Franklin D. Roosevelt. On November 15, NBC announced that Alan Toy has been cast in t...

Monday, September 27, 2021

British children's TV show, 'CBeebies,' hires first presenter with Down syndrome

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from The Guardian : The BBC’s preschool TV channel CBeebies has appointed George Webster as its first presenter with Down syndrome. The 20...

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Emmys stage will feature accessible, ADA-compliant ramp — Here’s how it happened

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from The Hollywood Reporter : Pictured is James LeBrecht and the Emmy Award statue at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences When ...

Friday, September 17, 2021

PBS' AMERICAN MASTERS season finale will explore life of Helen Keller

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from Broadway World : Note: Anyone interested in learning more about Keller's work as a writer for magazines and newspaper, can consu...

Selma Blair opens up about MS diagnosis, says she'll act again 'if there's the right thing'

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From Yahoo News : All those years Selma Blair had appeared in fan-favorite movies — Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde and The Sweetest ...

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Apple taps ‘CODA’s Siân Heder to helm & write Judy Heumann’s memoir ‘Being Heumann’; ‘Oklahoma’ Tony Winner Ali Stroker eyed to star

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From Deadline : Apple Original Films has landed rights to a package based on Judy Heumann ’s bestselling memoir Being Heumann . Siân He...

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Marlee Matlin to Hollywood: Disability is ‘not a box to be checked off’

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From Backstage Magazine : “We need other Oscar winners who are deaf,” says Marlee Matlin, the only deaf actor to win the coveted award. “...

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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