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Barbara Hershey Shows Her Chops in ‘Left to Die’

Posted on 11/4/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Entertainment Lifetime’s “Left to Die” movie, premiering tonight (11/4), has Barbara Hershey as an average American woman wrongly imprisoned in Ecuador on false drug trafficking charges. The real-life role of Sandra Chase gives Hershey plenty to do: she’s ill, she’s terrorized, she’s hopeless, she’s courageous and determined. Above all, “Left to Die” is a story of a daughter’s and mother’s love. Sandra’s daughter Tammi (Rachael Leigh Cook) went to amazing lengths trying to get her mother out of that foreign hell …

Lifetime’s ‘Army Wives’ hits milestone this weekend

Posted on 08/3/2012 by | Television and Entertainment | Comments

EntertainmentIt doesn’t generate the volume of buzz that some other cable dramas do, but Lifetime’s Army Wives has legions of devoted fans. On Sunday night, the show, which centers around the significant others of soldiers stationed at fictional Fort Marshal, airs its 100th episode. It’s a significant milestone for Army Wives, which has become a real warhorse for Lifetime on its way to its centennial airing. The show, based on the book Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army …