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Indie Select; No Hair Day: A Viewpoint Presentation

Story Breaks: No Hair Day BC Pic Loc 3 Program start 1:01:59:00 Program End 1:53: 32:00 Bob Burns Cambridge Studios 781-643-1771

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Series

Indie Select

Program

No Hair Day: A Viewpoint Presentation

Program Description

In March of 1998, three bald women came to the Cambridge studio of photographer Elsa Dorfman for a portrait session. The women - filmmaker Deborah Dorsey, artist and teacher Carol Potoff and Libby Levinson, an executive assistant at a publishing firm - had met in a breast cancer support group; each had lost her hair to chemotherapy. A film crew led by Dorsey's husband and business partner, Bob Burns, captured the session's hilarity and gravity, poignancy and fierce friendships, as well as the women's reflections on fighting breast cancer.

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Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Citation

Chicago: “Indie Select; No Hair Day: A Viewpoint Presentation,” WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed July 20, 2018, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3BF73F07129142639FA10652A08EE8E2.

MLA: “Indie Select; No Hair Day: A Viewpoint Presentation.” WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. July 20, 2018. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3BF73F07129142639FA10652A08EE8E2>.

APA: Indie Select; No Hair Day: A Viewpoint Presentation. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3BF73F07129142639FA10652A08EE8E2