Stories about people who are destined to fight: brothers and sisters.
Drama Of The Gifted Child's Sister
Tamar Brott, on growing up with two music prodigies, and Sandra Tsing Loh's sister Kaitlin, a ballet prodigy. (20 minutes)
Fraternity Is Destiny
Writer Donald Antrim's The Hundred Brothers, and the question: What happens when we grow up? (24 minutes)
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Act Three: It's Not the Heat
Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance.
Act One
Over the course of his life, Keith Aldrich was a child of the Depression in Oklahoma; a preacher-in-training in booming California; an aspiring Hollywood actor; in the 1950s, a self-styled Beat writer, and then a man in a gray flannel suit; in the 1960s, a member of the New York literati, and then a hippie; in the 1970s, a denizen of the suburbs with a partying, Ice Storm kind of life. Then in the 80's, when the moral majority helped put Ronald Reagan in office, he became a born-again Christian.
Act Three: A Love Story
Sarah Vowell tells "The Greatest Love Story of the 20th Century," Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.
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