Archive for TV Category
Audio interview with Gayle King on Oprah Radio
September 22, 2011 book, media coverage, speaking, sports, TVOn September 2nd I visited Gayle King (Oprah’s BFF) for a chat on her radio show on Oprah’s Sirius/XM network. Anyone who has listened to Gayle’s show knows she is funny, brash, exuberant. She loved to say the name of the book over and over and made a point of saying WHO…SAYS…I…CAN’T very slowly with [...]
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Fox News piece embedded
August 25, 2011 athletics, book, disability, inspiration, media coverage, sports, TVWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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How the Today Show happened
August 25, 2011 athletics, disability, inspiration, media coverage, sports, TVThe Today Show segment has come and gone and most people that will read this have seen it (http://on.msnbc.com/qDUOQa just in case). Here I want to describe how it came about and what I think it might do and even a little bit about what the back scene was like.
My partner in the TV venture, [...]
WSIC TV: new teaser
August 22, 2011 media coverage, TVWe have a new version of the teaser (also called a “sizzle” reel) for the pilot of Who Says I Can’t the reality TV series. This now includes scenes of all three of our athletes who are part of the pilot. Maureen McKinnon is a sailor who won the gold medal in the Beijing Paraolympics [...]
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Upcoming: LIVE on the Gayle King show on Oprah Radio
August 22, 2011 inspiration, media coverage, oprah, speaking, TVI will be interviewed live on the Gayle King show on Oprah Radio (XM 111 / SIRIUS 204) on September 2 from 9-11 AM. Gayle is Oprah’s best friend. She is a major force at O Magazine and also has a show on Oprah’s TV network. This is a wonderful break for Who Says I [...]
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Filming Kelly Bruno for WSIC TV
July 2, 2011 amputee, athletics, biking, book, disability, disabled, duke, inspiration, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, sports, swimming, TVFilming for WSIC TV continues and last week was all Kelly Bruno.
Kelly’s quick thumbnail story is that she was born with a birth defect that included not having a fibula or a foot-ankle on her right side. It made her lower leg useless and it was removed at six months of age. She has never [...]
TV profile: Hugh Herr
June 3, 2011 climbing, disability, disabled, fighting back, inspiration, microprocessor knee, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, TVThe youngest of five siblings from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hugh Herr was a prodigy rock climber: by age eight, he had scaled the face of the 11,627-foot Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, and by 17 he was acknowledged to be one of the best climbers in the United States.
In January 1982, while attempting to summit [...]
Next TV profile: Kelly Bruno
May 5, 2011 amputee, athlete, athletics, biking, disability, disabled, prosthetic, prosthetics, running, swimming, TVKelly Bruno, age 27 from Boca Raton, FL, is a Duke graduate and now a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also a world-record holding amputee runner and triathlete, a former contestant on the TV series Survivor: Nicaragua, and the next person we will profile in Who Says I Can’t the TV Series.
Kelly [...]
Who Says I Can’t TV – Maureen
April 20, 2011 amputee, athletics, boating, confidence, disability, disabled, fighting back, handicapped, independence, inspiration, recreation, sailing, self-esteem, sports, TVWe have a crew of 4 for the shoots. In all action shots we have 3 cameras. In interviews we have 2 cameras and a lighting person as well as a production assistant who runs around making the scene comfortable for all. Here is how this (and probably most) shoots went with Maureen McKinnon last [...]
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Needham disabilities awareness at Eliot school
February 17, 2011 amputee, athlete, disability, disabled, media coverage, speaking, TVFrom the Needham Hometown Weekly – Jothy Rosenberg, author of Who Says I Can’t, will help launch the Disability Awareness program at John Eliot Elementary School on Friday, January 28. Rosenberg, who lost a leg and a lung to cancer when he was a teenager, was told that he had no chance of surviving. Thanks [...]
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