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Janelle Haskell, Producer of AARP’s Prime Time Radio, has won a 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Producer – Entertainment.

The Gracie Awards celebrate and honor programming created for women, by women, and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions in electronic media and affiliates. Presented annually, the Gracie Awards recognize national, local and student works.

The 2010 Gracies Awards Celebration will be held on May 25-26, 2010 in Los Angeles.  The Gracie Awards ceremony is presented by the American Women in Radio and Television.

Robert De Niro and Jeff Bridges at 2010 Movies for Grownups Awards

2010 Movies for Grownups® Awards

It’s award season here in Hollywood and AARP The Magazine has announced its annual Movies for Grownups Awards® .

Movies for Grownups® is a regular feature in AARP’s Prime Time Radio program heard on over 200 public radio stations across the US. AARP The Magazine Entertainment editor Bill Newcott hosts the two minute feature that focuses exclusively on films created by and for the 50+ demographic. “Movies For Grownups” previews upcoming movies, reviews current theatrical and home video releases, and interviews filmmakers whose work reflects the hopes, dreams, and experience of this too-often forgotten age group.

La Chaise d'Or trophy (Golden Chair)

Clint Eastwood’s film Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon was named the Best Movie for Grownups.  Helen Mirren took the Best Actress 50+ award for her work on The Last Station, and Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor 50+ for his portrayal of the booze-soaked county singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart.  The Readers’ Choice award went to Sandra Bullock’s feel-good flick, The Blind Side.  Robert De Niro received the Lifetime Achievement Award.  Among the other categories are Best Intergenerational Film, Best Buddy Movie, and Breakthrough Accomplishment.

Complete list of awards and photos from the event –

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/entertainment/movies_for_grownups_2010awards/

Movies for Grownups® is also available as a podcast -

http://www.aarp.org/aarp/broadcast/aarp_radio/AARP_Radio_Podcasts/

Prime Time Radio presents an irresistible look at the music and musicians of the drink houses and juke joints of the rural South.

Host Barry Yeoman takes us into the lives of colorful artists named Captain Luke, Guitar Gabriel, Boo Hanks, Eddie Tigner, and Little Freddie King…working men in their 60s, 70s and 80s, who have written, sung and played songs about their world all their lives.

Folklorist/guitarist Tim Duffy met these little known bluesmen, many of whom lived in desperate poverty.  He formed the Music Maker Relief Foundation and through a record label and concerts, he presents them more widely, even taking them overseas, where they caused a sensation.  The foundation now provides them with some of the necessities that most Americans take for granted.

This unforgettable hour of tales and tunes is not only perfect for Black History Month but a program your listeners will want to hear any time of year!

Available FREE on PRX, Content Depot, Downloads, or CDs

SAMPLE the PROGRAM

Mike Cuthbert, Host of Prime Time Radio, a one-hour weekly interview program that focuses on the wide-ranging interests and concerns of Americans 40 and older, is a skilled interviewer and acute listener whose thorough preparation surprises and delights his guests. Mike converses intelligently, provocatively, and easily with celebrities, politicians, academics, and bureaucrats, drawing out their personalities and weaving their insights and expertise into stimulating discussions.

A native of Wisconsin, Mike holds a master’s degree in music and education. His nearly 40 years in radio began in Beloit, Wisconsin. Mike then moved to Washington, D.C., where he led the development of WGMS into one of the nation’s leading classical music radio stations. His talk-radio career began at WRC in Washington and has included top-rated WRKO in Boston, WCKY in Cincinnati, where he was designated “Best Talk Show Host,” and public radio’s WAMU in Washington, where he was recognized with a number of broadcasting awards. Married with four grown children and one grandchild, Mike also conducts a local concert band.

Click HERE to listen to Mike’s recent interview with Stacy Keach.

Mike Cuthbert hosted the hour-long Town Hall from AARP with President Obama on July 28, 2009.  Watch HERE.

Prime Time Radio presents  Before and After Stonewall:  A Talk with Dr. Frank Kameny
(84, activist, historian and raconteur)

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the [Stonewall] riots as a reason to “commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans”.

Frank Kameny, Ph.D., age 84, is acknowledged as the founding father of the modern gay rights movement. In this rollicking conversation, he takes on all issues from gay marriage to the impact of AIDS on the gay rights movement.

“The most momentous single Gay Movement event occurred at the end of June, 1969, when the “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York…converted what had been a tiny, struggling gay movement into the vast grass-roots movement which it now is.

(…) At the start of the Sixties gays were completely invisible. By the end, and especially after Stonewall, we were seen everywhere: in entertainment, education, religion, politics, business, elsewhere and everywhere.”

Frank Kameny, Letter to Tom Brokaw

LISTEN to the program; WATCH video

AVAILABLE (June 23rd): Content Depot, PRX, ORDER CD ;  COST: FREE;  LENGTH: 1 hour

A Special edition of Prime Time Radio

A one-hour weekly interview program that focuses on the wide-ranging interests and concerns of Americans 40 and older. Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert is a skilled interviewer and acute listener whose thorough preparation surprises and delights his guests.