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 ASHINGTON,
DC (June 1, 2004) – Actress Margaret Colin; singer Aaron Neville;
and managing editor and moderator of NBC-TV’s long-running “Meet
the Press”, Tim Russert, talk about the impact of faith in their
lives in a one-hour special that will be distributed to NBC-TV affiliates
on Wednesday, June 9th, as part of the “Horizons of the Spirit” series.
Produced by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic
Communication
Campaign (CCC), Personally Speaking will be scheduled at the discretion of
NBC-TV affiliate stations. A list of stations that have scheduled
broadcasts will be
posted on this site as information becomes available. Viewers can also call
their local NBC-TV station to ask about their plans to air the program.
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Margaret Colin started her acting career on the
soap operas The Edge of Night and As The World Turns, before landing
her first starring role on television in the CBS series Foley
Square.
Since then she has starred and co-starred in several TV series,
including Leg Work, Sibs, and The Wright
Verdicts, as well as a
recurring role on the first season of CBS’ hit series, Chicago
Hope. She also received wide critical and popular acclaim in 1999
for her co-starring role in the CBS series Now and Again. In addition
to her theater work, which earned her a 1998 Theatre World Award
for her Broadway debut in Jackie: An American Life, Colin has also
co-starred in a number of feature films. She is perhaps best known
for her roles in Three Men and a Baby, Independence
Day, and The
Devil’s Own.
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Aaron Neville is a member of the
celebrated rhythm and blues combo, the Neville Brothers. Raised
in the poverty-stricken Calliope Housing Project in New Orleans,
Neville’s career began in the 1950s and reached its peak in the
1960s with the hit “Tell It Like It Is”. Because of an exploitive
contract, however, he never received any of the royalties for the
hit single and at the height of the song’s popularity, Neville
was working as a ditch digger and dockworker to support his family.
His frustration and disappointment led to a decade-long struggle
with drug addiction and an arrest and prison sentence for burglary.
By the 1980s, Neville had replaced his dependence on drugs with
a renewed devotion to his Catholic faith, and in 1988 exploded
back onto the music scene with the international hit, “Don’t Know
Much”, one of four duets he performed with Linda Ronstadt on her
album, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. Since then he
has won four Grammy awards, recorded numerous #1 hits, and attained
deserved recognition – both critically and commercially – as one
of the most treasured voices in music.
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Tim Russert is the award-winning
managing editor and moderator of the longest-running program
in the history of television, NBC’s “Meet the Press”. He also
serves as a political analyst for “NBC Nightly News” and the
“Today” show. He anchors “The Tim Russert Show”, a weekly interview
program on CNBC, and is a contributing anchor for MSNBC as well.
Born and raised in a tightly knit, Irish Catholic neighborhood
in Buffalo, New York, Russert’s two greatest influences growing
up were his father, “Big Russ”, and his Catholic faith. Educated
by the Sisters of Mercy in grade school and the Jesuits in high
school, he earned his degree in political science from Jesuit-run
John Carroll University in 1972 and his law degree from the Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law four years later. After serving as a counselor
to New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in the early 1980s, he went to work
for NBC News in 1984. He became moderator of “Meet the Press”
in 1991 and since then, it has become the most watched Sunday
morning interview program in America and the most quoted news
program in the world. His first book, Big Russ and Me: Father
and Son, Lessons of Life, is a candid look at the relationship
between father and son, and the advice and wisdom passed from
one generation to the next.
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