Netta Ulaby
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Podcast Appearances
More than 130 years of filmmaking are represented in the registry.
The oldest movie added this year was a silent film comedy from 1896.
Other films added to the collection include two musicals starring Bing Crosby, one a holiday classic.
And two more recent dramas, Philadelphia and Glory, that star Denzel Washington.
The National Film Registry also added classic films for Generation X, such as The Karate Kid and Clueless, and an iconic film for baby boomers, The Big Chill.
On all five seasons of The Wire, Isaiah Whitlock Jr.
stole scene after scene, like in this one, where his character, a crooked politician, is on trial for stealing money from a children's basketball team.
He demolishes the prosecution by saying he empties his personal pockets for needy constituents.
Whitlock trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
He worked in dozens of movies, including many with director Spike Lee, and TV shows ranging from Law & Order SVU to Veep.
The Women by Kristen Hanna came out last year.
Army nurse who serves in Vietnam.
It was the number one most-checked-out book on Libby, the public library app, and in numerous libraries, including the one in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Harold Escalante works.
Other top books this year included the Romantasy series about elite soldiers and their dragons by Rebecca Yaros.
All of the top ten books on Libby were by women, including the only nonfiction one.
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins is about the art of not caring about other people's opinions.