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Singer Cassandra Wilson died in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi on September 2nd at age 70.

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Today, we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.

Dennis Smith was a writer and retired New York City firefighter who, on September 11th, walked to his neighborhood firehouse in Manhattan and went with the firefighters to Ground Zero.

Casey Gerald's new book is The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance.

Coming up, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV, which is now streaming on Netflix.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban has stared into the belly of the beast of America's healthcare system.

Its cast members over the years have included John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, and Andrea Martin, and the entire series has generally been unavailable to watch.

But beginning this month, all six seasons of SCTV are available to stream on Netflix.

Our TV critic David Bianculli is thrilled, and here's his review.

review."SCTV" was an outgrowth of the stage company of Second City Toronto, and originally was televised by the Global Television Network, one of Canada's smaller networks.

After a break will hear more of their conversation and critic at large John Powers reviews Coyote vs Acme the comedy film based on the classic Warner Brothers cartoon character.

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I'm TV critic David Bianculli Today we're remembering Gloria Steinem the feminist icon who died Wednesday at age Ninety Two Let's get back to her interview with Terry from Twenty Fifteen the year Steinem published her memoir My Life On The Road

So getting back to this life that you had as a child Your mother's spirit was broken It was often hard for her to get out of bed Your father created this like wonderful dance pavilion Summers But then when the summer was over the family would move into a van and drive south and basically live When I say van I should say trailer I suppose Then the family would live in the trailer for the duration until the following Summer Are you right that you never started out with enough money to complete the trip Your father would buy antiques and then sell them to antique dealers Buy them at Country auctions and then sell them to antique dealers at higher prices to fund your trip South How did you like being itinerant like that

I suppose that two things happen at once when you're a child One is that you just accept as normal whatever is around you and the other is that you go to the movies and you see kids or your classmates because I would go to school till it got cold Halloween or something Who are living a different way and you want to be like them You wanna be like the other kids It never for a moment occurred to me that they might envy me So I both accepted it and hoped that my real parents would come find me and [laughs] take me to a house with a picket fence and a, a pony.

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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died Tuesday.

He was 80 years old.