[TI] TV show?

[Rosalie Amison]

There also was a series, Faces of America, with Henry Louis Gates.  Very,
very interesting, was on the public station, keep your eyes open for it.
Featured Stephen Colbert, Elizabeth Alexander, Mario Batali, Louise Erdrich,
Malcolm Gladwell, Eva Longoria, Yo-Yo Ma, Mike Nichols, Queen Noor, Dr
Mehmet Oz, Meryl Streep and Krishti Yamaguchi.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/
Can see it on the url.  Each were very interesting.
Rosalie Amison

-----Original Message-----
From: terminiimerese-bounces at comunesofitaly.org
[mailto:terminiimerese-bounces at comunesofitaly.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Maddi
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 6:35 PM
To: terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org
Subject: Re: [TI] TV show?

I'm not at home on Friday night when the show is on, but I've been watching
it online when I have time on Sunday. The show takes a celebrity and
researches their family tree to find interesting ancestors they have. So
far, they've featured Sara Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith (football player),
Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Broderick. The final three shows will feature Brooke
Shields, Spike Lee and Susan Sarandon.

This is a great series, which I think will get many people interested in
researching their ancestors. Among the stories uncovered so far are that an
ancestor of Sara Jessica Parker was accused in the Salem witch trials but
was fortunately acquitted. Also, Lisa Kudrow found out that her paternal
grandmother's mother was among the Jews murdered by the Nazis in a small
Polish town; in the course of the story she met a cousin of her father who
was not massacred. The stories were very inspiring and you could see that
these celebrities were profoundly affected by what they never knew before
and found out.

By the way, Susan Sarandon's mother was named Criscione and I believe had
Sicilian ancestors. The promo film for her story (in about 3 weeks) shows
her walking in a town with Italian-looking architecture. So this is perhaps
why someone brought up Termini in the discussion of the show. It would be
very cool if it turns out that Susan Sarandon has TI ancestors. I found out
by looking in Wikipedia that she lived in the same NJ town where I lived in
the 1960s, although she's 7 years older than me.

If you don't catch the show on the air on Friday nights, you can watch it
online (past and future episodes) at
http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/ - scroll down and look in the
lower right for where to click to watch the shows that have aired so far.

Mike Maddi

--- On Tue, 3/30/10, Barbara Jenkins <hjenkins at SW.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Barbara Jenkins <hjenkins at SW.rr.com>
> Subject: [TI] TV show?
> To: TerminiImerese at comunesofitaly.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 11:05 AM
> It appears from the following website
> that the TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?" may have an
> interest in the Termini area.
> Barbara Jenkins
> 
> H-Net Discussion Networks - Query-Fishing, Migration and
> Crime in ...
> Hello everyone, I'm conducting some research into the
> Termini-Imerese fishing industry in the 19th century, and
> wondered if anyone out there can help. ...
> h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&amp;list=H-Italy...c...
> 
>
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Italy&month=1003&wee
k=c&msg=elJ%2BQKwbsXAywo%2B45NN0Nw&user=&pw=
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TerminiImerese mailing list
> TerminiImerese at comunesofitaly.org
>
http://comunesofitaly.org/mailman/listinfo/terminiimerese_comunesofitaly.org
> 


      

_______________________________________________
TerminiImerese mailing list
TerminiImerese at comunesofitaly.org
http://comunesofitaly.org/mailman/listinfo/terminiimerese_comunesofitaly.org