This profile of acting coach Stella Adler includes interviews with Adler and with colleagues, students, and friends, along with clips from her own acting performances as well as from her classes.
At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution in modern jazz music. Today, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century.
Neil Simon is the world's most successful playwright. He has had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion pictures produced. He has been showered with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer.
In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete.
Mort Sahl revolutionized the world of stand-up comedy. But through it all, Mort Sahl has remained an unflinching critic of American politics, and he has never backed away from his beliefs.
No matter where, what, or whom he was shooting, W. Eugene Smith drove himself relentlessly to create evocative portraits that revealed the essence of his subjects in a way that touched the emotions.
