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Despite all the familiar elements I mentioned last time, Forever does seem to have a certain charm that a lot of shows seem to lack these days, so I'm going to be watching it going forward.
It's a bit predictable but I enjoy Prof. Henry Lewis Gates' show Finding Your Roots on PBS. Last night they were doing reporter Anderson Cooper, who I was shocked to learn is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt (the most famous socialite of my childhood and the namesake on the butts of many women in my early adulthood), documentary maker Ken Burns, who learned he is vaguely related to a bunch of famous people (aren't we all?), and the writer/actress Anna Deavere Smith, who had the most interesting family in the end. Her ancestor was a conductor on the Underground Railway, as a black man had to flee his home and basically lost everything when the Southern Army came to Gettysburg and then rebuilt his life and at the same time helped create one of the country's most famous places by earning the contract to remove the fallen from the battlefield to an organized cemetery where Lincoln would soon thereafter give his most famous speech.
It's a bit predictable but I enjoy Prof. Henry Lewis Gates' show Finding Your Roots on PBS. Last night they were doing reporter Anderson Cooper, who I was shocked to learn is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt (the most famous socialite of my childhood and the namesake on the butts of many women in my early adulthood), documentary maker Ken Burns, who learned he is vaguely related to a bunch of famous people (aren't we all?), and the writer/actress Anna Deavere Smith, who had the most interesting family in the end. Her ancestor was a conductor on the Underground Railway, as a black man had to flee his home and basically lost everything when the Southern Army came to Gettysburg and then rebuilt his life and at the same time helped create one of the country's most famous places by earning the contract to remove the fallen from the battlefield to an organized cemetery where Lincoln would soon thereafter give his most famous speech.