Well, one of-- and I should say, one of two. Denee has two understudies, one of whom is Southeast Asian, who tragically apparently is the first Southeast Asian performer-- Since "Bombay Dreams" or something like that? --in 10 years, since "Bombay Dreams" to play-- a female-- to play a leading principal role on Broadway.
And for Native folks, it’s how we preserve our oral histories, maintain our laws, pass down knowledge of the natural world, and so much more. As Dene Elder Paul Disain said: “Our language and culture is the window through which we see the world. To lose it, is to lose a part of ourselves.” But sadly, fluency rates for Native American languages have been declining for hundreds of years.
We teach it out of Northern Arizona University. And we are coming out of Dene College, the Navajo tribal college. We worked there for a lot of years/ I graduated from there.
something even more important. You don't get to contribute to this abundance without freedom. And at this point, it was pretty obvious to me. - You also wrote, "Svoboda vazhne deneg." It translates to: "Freedom matters more than money." How do you prevent these values for freedom corrupted by money, by people with influence, by people with power?
commercials. Um, like you mentioned there, she was four when she appeared in the US soap One Life to Live. She then went on in her teenage years to star in A Bug's Life and Remember the Titans with Denel Washington before becoming that household name as cheerleader Claire Bennett in that hit sci-fi series Heroes. Then in Nashville like you heard in that clip there. It was a totally
And to quickly tell you what we did on radio, everything was out. Everything was done. So our radio producer, Howie Deneroff, who is amazing, figured that he would check the hard-line phones that we had in our booth, because he always had hard-line phones, because that's what he was brought up with.
So can you talk-- I mean, just to quickly call out some people in the cast. It's incredibly diverse. So Natasha's played by Denee Benton, who's an African American. Her understudy last week while she was on vacation is South Asian.
sent to my muscles i' run faster if my mouth was dry all the blood was sucked out of my mouth and sent to my muscles and run faster and we can all identify with those symptoms when we get acutely stressed but if the dangerous denene is more chronic uh we end up secreting more gluc cortisol which is our tired but wired horand which we'll talk about so
It's coming back. But it's to some extent a lost art of communication. It was made into a wonderful film in 1970, by Jacques Demy, with Catherine Deneuve in the role. And I wanted to put this in, not only to remind you of what a great film this is, but also that film is probably
Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, it's tragic to me that we're still having a conversation about why it's revolutionary that Oak or Denee should be playing either of the titular