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Shirlee Taylor Haizlip (born 1937) is an American non-fiction author. She has written three books: The Sweeter the Juice, A Memoir in Black and White, In the Garden of Our Dreams, co-authored with her husband, Harold C. Haizlip, [1] and Finding Grace.
Haizlip was born in Stratford, Connecticut and grew up in Ansonia, Connecticut. She graduated from Wellesley College, taught sociology at Tufts University and studied Urban Planning at the Harvard University School of Design. Haizlip was the first woman to manage a CBS television affiliate, WBNB-TV in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. [2] From there she went to WNET TV, Channel 13 in New York City and became one of its corporate officers. Haizlip moved to Los Angeles, California in 1989 to become the National Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute, an organization which advocated and distributed funding for more than 139 film archives around the country. [3] Haizlip left the Preservation Center to begin writing her book, The Sweeter the Juice.
In 2000, she was the first African-American to be appointed president of the Ebell Society of Los Angeles. She was again appointed president in 2010. [4]
Haizlip married Harold C. Haizlip in 1959 and the couple had two daughters.
Sweeter the Juice was a "notable book of the year", [5] and was awarded the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Bruno Brand Award[ citation needed ] as best book on tolerance in 1995. In recognition of the importance of the book, The University of New Haven honored Haizlip an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. The book is regularly taught in high schools across the country, and is required reading in numerous college courses. [6]
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is a retired American actress. A star since the Golden Age of Hollywood, Woodward made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character. She is one of the first film stars to have an equal presence in television. Her accolades include an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and the oldest living Best Actress Oscar-winner.
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).
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Mauryne Eleanor Taylor Brent was an American actress and poet. She starred opposite Mantan Moreland in the film Come On, Cowboy!. For her poetry, she was on the cover of Jet magazine on January 26, 1956. Jazz pianist Billy Taylor was her cousin and her half-sister Shirlee Taylor Haizlip included her in memoir The Sweeter the Juice; A Family Memoir. Her memoir, The Heart Speaks, was published in 1976.
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