When news broke Tuesday that TV personality Miss Cleo - an actress best known as the face of the now-defunct Psychic Readers Network - had passed away from colon cancer, the Internet remembered a charismatic Jamaican woman with a signature catchphrase, "Call me now!" The woman who actually died, 53-year-old Youree Dell Harris, was a Los Angeles-born civilian who stumbled into a psychic career - and expressed regret over taking money from innocent people who called into her network asking for spiritual guidance to the tune of several dollars a minute. "If someone called me on the line and I...
- 7/27/2016
- by Patrick Rogers & Kate Hogan
- PEOPLE.com
When news broke Tuesday that TV personality Miss Cleo - an actress best known as the face of the now-defunct Psychic Readers Network - had passed away from colon cancer, the Internet remembered a charismatic Jamaican woman with a signature catchphrase, "Call me now!" The woman who actually died, 53-year-old Youree Dell Harris, was a Los Angeles-born civilian who stumbled into a psychic career - and expressed regret over taking money from innocent people who called into her network asking for spiritual guidance to the tune of several dollars a minute. "If someone called me on the line and I...
- 7/27/2016
- by Patrick Rogers & Kate Hogan
- PEOPLE.com
With the rise of the internet, texting and social media and a sense of impersonality has overwhelmed communication. Even most cellphone users are more keen on texting than answering calls, which most often hit voicemail rather than being answered by a person. Tony Shaff’s documentary “Hotline” looks at this shift in communication through the still prevalent and important tool of help hotlines, where a personal, intimate touch is everything. The film screened at Doc NYC recently and is now available on iTunes and VOD, Shaff and his composer Jess Stroup (“Camp X-Ray”) got together for The Playlist to talk about the doc and their approach to music as such. Their conversation is below. The Inspiration Tony Shaff: After years of production on “Hotline,” being immersed in the relationships that people have with talking with strangers on the telephone, I knew that the score would be so important because...
- 11/21/2014
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
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