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Mayday (2003)
Thoughtful, engaging and subjective representation of traumatic, sometimes heroic events.
While the subject is both terrifying to think about, and violent in its action, every attempt is made to focus on the combination of reasons for the failure: technical; weather; and/or human error, rather than lurid coverage of a blood-filled scene. Think: Law & Order, with less fake blood. There is no gratuitous gore; at most, there are injuries done with make-up. It pays to remember that the camera crews were not onsite for the crashes; it's staged, so empathy for passenger and crew victims, and their families is implicit in the scripting... but tragic loss is a given. Judge how impressionable your kids are; could they bear up at the open-casket funeral of a stranger? Sympathy can be learned; empathy is born or experience and observation.Putting on my parental hat, I'd watch this with 10- to 12-year-olds and up (depending on the individuals). Unlike so much video drivel, there are opportunities for thought, learning, career consideration and more. After all, it's on the Smithsonian Channel!
M*A*S*H: Foreign Affairs (1982)
Charles in love... in his own Catch-22
Melinda Mullins, as French nurse Martine LeClerc, limns the character with the professional training and personal verve that has brought her roles from Broadway to Off-Broadway to regional theatre and, of course, on TV -- from Law & Order to What About Bob? to Remember WENN.
She earned a BA in the romance languages from Mount Holyoke College; she also studied at the Juilliard in New York, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. Melinda also writes screenplays and short stories and is married to actor/author Joshua Bryant, who appeared as JACK SCULLY on M*A*S*H; they live in France.
On Broadway she created the roles of Merry Chase in Mastergate; Scilla Todd and Ms Buttolph in Serious Money; and Liza in Sherlock's Last Case.
Off-Broadway and regionally she has played in Shakespeare as Lady Macbeth; and in Midsummer Nights Dream, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, The Play's the Thing, and Measure for Measure -- also in John O'Keefe's Wild Oats. and the mini-series Amerika.
Her awards include the 1986 B.H. Barry Stagefighting Prize; a Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination in 1996; the 1999 New York Festival Award for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series; and Chicago's International Television Festival award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.
Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Mullins#Filmography for much more about this consummate hardworking performer.
Thanks to Wikipedia, IMDb and Playbill!