The Brian Lehrer Show

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Monday, May 29, 2006

For Memorial Day, Deborah Tainsh talks about her memoir Heart of a Hawk: One Family’s Sacrifice and Journey Toward Healing. She writes about her step-son, Patrick, a soldier killed in action in Iraq and about his family’s struggles to face the loss. And a different kind of memorial, as the widow of Spalding Gray is joined by actors James Urbaniak and Hazelle Goodman to preview the upcoming performance of his works at P.S. 122, called Leftover Stories to Tell. Plus, Monday Morning Politics with Mark Halperin of ABC News.

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Monday Morning Politics

Mark Halperin, political director for ABC News and editor of the political newsletter, The Note
- on the latest out of Washington

» The Note

Shades of Gray

Kathleen Russo, creator and co-director of Leftover Stories To Tell
and
Hazelle Goodman, actor whose credits include Woody Allen's film Deconstructing Harry and her solo show Hazelle Live!
and
James Urbaniak, actor whose credits include Will Eno's one-man play, Thom Pain (based on nothing) and the film American Splendor as Robert Crumb
-on the new theatrical work created from Spalding Gray's published and unpublished writings

» more about the play
» Hazelle Goodman
» James Urbaniak
» Hazelle is currently performing her solo show "Hazelle Live!" at The Bowery Poetry Club from June 9th to Aug 18th

In Memoriam

Deborah Tainsh, stepmother of a soldier who died in Iraq and author Heart of a Hawk: One Family’s Sacrifice and Journey Toward Healing (Elva Resa Publishing, 2006)
- on the life of her stepson Patrick and how she and the family are coping since his death