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Susan Spencer-Wendel, a longtime court reporter is diagnosed with ALS, which destroys the nerves that power muscles including the lungs. She races against time to create a record of her life before her illness overcomes her. Spencer-Wendel and her 14-year-old daughter are fans of the reality show "Say Yes To The Dress," and so they head to Kleinfeld's so the teen can try on wedding dresses for her mom, which is always the plan before her mother took ill. Spencer-Wendel leaves behind money so her sister can eventually buy a dream dress there when her daughter is ready to get married.
A story about the philanthropist known as "Robin Hood 702".
Musicians David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocate to West Berlin in the late ’70s and begin a creative collaboration that leads to three albums -- Pop's "Idiot" & "Lust for Life" and Bowie's "Low."
Patrice Émery Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader, becomes the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helps win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba's government is deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.
Mike May, a man who was blinded at age 3 and regains his vision at age 46 after an experimental surgery involving stem cells.
Three years after giving up drinking and following the birth of her first child, a woman returns to be an alcoholic. She goes on binges, has blackouts, lies and suffers humiliations. She ultimately fights toward recovery.
The story of con man Bo Stefan Eriksson, who has been in and out of Swedish and U.S. jails for fraud, extortion, auto theft, kidnapping and other charges, and the video game company, Gizmondo, that he founded before filing for bankruptcy.
Set in the 1980s, the Coca-Cola Company perceives a threat by No. 2 rival Pepsi when they release a clever "Pepsi Challenge" marketing campaign. This leads Coke to corporate panic, even though Coke is outselling its rival 2-to-1. They release a so-called improved formula but its summarily rejected by Coke drinkers.
Mississippi native Dickie Scruggs becomes among the most successful plaintiffs' lawyers in America by winning cases against tobacco and asbestos industries. As a result, he develops a huge appetite for the high life, culminating in his guilty plea in a conspiracy to bribe a state judge.
In 1956, Charles Robert Jenkins surrenders to the North Koreans while drunk and undergoes a strange 40-year prison term. He is forced to act in (propaganda) movies as an American bad guy, and he becomes a kind of a celebrity.
Biopic of real-life Aussie hero, bush poet Banjo Paterson.
A biopic about Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award.
Follows the story of Italian pop singer Mina who stirred up controversy when she had a child with a married man, forcing her to withdraw from the public eye in the late 1970s.
A young Midwesterner transforms from a shy kid into a sex symbol with rugged good looks, but he is forced to keep secret his homosexuality. Henry Willson, an agent, discovers Hudson and beyond changing the actor's name, Willson becomes adept at keeping secrets. When the showbiz tabloid "Confidential" threatens to publish rumors that Hudson is leading a secret life in 1955, Willson arranges for Hudson to marry his secretary, Phyllis Gates. They do a good job of keeping Hudson’s private life private right up until he dies in 1985, when he becomes the first major movie star to pass away from complications relating to AIDS.
The story centers on the life of Mexican rock singer, songwriter and composer Gloria Trevi.
As DeAngelo Simmons' own sports dreams are ending, his sister moves back to Louisiana with her four sons and she wants to keep them away from the streets. She asks Simmons to teach them basketball. When one, Paul Millsap, grows into a 6’8”, 250 pound rebounding machine, Simmons learns to become a sports agent and brokers a four-year, $32 million deal for his power forward nephew with the Utah Jazz.
Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo is replaced by his protégé Sam Giancana.
Story will trace Sam Kinison's rise as the son of a preacher to be one of the most cutting-edge and significant comedians of his era. His comedy often pivoted on his former role as an evangelist, with his first album titled "Louder Than Hell."
In the early 1960s, Helen Gurley writes the blockbuster book "Sex and the Single Girl" and then takes the top job at floundering magazine Cosmo. She remakes the magazine and turns it into a cultural powerhouse.
After Lauren Fern Watt, a 25-year-old New Yorker, discovers her beloved 160-pound English Mastiff, Gizelle has terminal bone cancer, she sets out to take him on a series of special adventures in his final few months. They canoe, go to Times Square, find the best donuts in the world, sit on the beach in winter and people-watch in Washington Square Park.