Betsy West

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, co-director of “Julia”

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Julia Child was the first celebrity TV chef beginning in the early 1960s.

Julia Child’s diaries and private letters reveal details of her personal life and marriage

Julia Child was the first celebrity TV chef beginning in the early 1960s.

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Diminutive and soft-spoken Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turned 85 last month. Fans like to call her The Notorious RBG - a play on the name of the rapper Notorious BIG.

'RBG' film focuses on life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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