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Devil's Ear
What if you lost your job, were rapidly running out of money, discovered your young daughter had developed a life-threatening illness, and suddenly had a chance to make a lot of fast, easy cash? But the way to get it was illegal — and deadly...
What if, on your 40th birthday, forgotten once again by your intellectually superior and emotionally distant husband, you decided to run away to a remote Mexican village? But in the process of “finding yourself” you find someone else who puts your life in danger.
What if you were a 12-year-old girl from a poor family living in a small Mexican village with no prospects of getting out — or ahead — when one day, walking down the beach, you find a big plastic bag filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars? The cash will change your life, but it may also take it.
Luis Gonzalez, an honest, hard-working man from a small village in the Mexican highlands, is laid off from his construction job. As days and weeks go by with no other prospects, as money runs out, he discovers his young daughter needs surgery to repair a hole in her heart or she will die. But the surgery is expensive and he can’t possibly afford it. When he’s approached by a friend of a friend to make just one run, delivering a cache of drugs for a cartel off-shoot in exchange for a huge payoff that would pay for his daughter’s surgery, he takes a chance. But it all goes disastrously wrong. As he barrels along a deserted dirt road in the tierra caliente, the “hot land”, plumes of fine red dust swirl in his wake, obscuring what — or who — could be gaining on him. In his mounting fear, he focuses on the face of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the virgin of protection, dangling at the end of a string of rosary beads that swing from his rearview mirror, and whispers a silent prayer.
Meanwhile, Laurel Taylor, a lonely, 40-year-old suburban high school teacher whose professor husband has emotionally drifted away like an ice floe, spending increasing amounts of time on his research, is filled with anxiety as the years stack up and fall away like dominoes. She is afraid that she is living life on the surface; that she is missing something deeper and more meaningful if only she knew what that was. As she lies awake at night, mentally thumbing through the blank pages of her day, she feels empty and worthless. Living nearly 20 years under the shadow of her intellectual husband, following his life rather than her own, she makes the decision to escape, if only for a few months, to find out exactly who Laurel Taylor is. She rents a small casa in a remote village on the Mexican coast, intending to blend in with the locals and just “be”, hoping to learn more about herself, what she really wants for the last half of her life, and whether that includes her husband. What she doesn’t expect is that of the many locals she will meet, one will steal her heart, and another will attempt to steal her life.
Luis and Laurel’s lives are soon to intersect, under dangerous circumstances, innocently precipitated by an impoverished 12-year-old girl by the name of Pia Salinas, who finds a large plastic bag stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, on the beach of her small village. The same beach where Laurel has rented her casa, the same beach where Luis washes ashore after going overboard in the drug deal gone bad, the same beach where the murderous double-crosser comes to recover his loot.
What if, on your 40th birthday, forgotten once again by your intellectually superior and emotionally distant husband, you decided to run away to a remote Mexican village? But in the process of “finding yourself” you find someone else who puts your life in danger.
What if you were a 12-year-old girl from a poor family living in a small Mexican village with no prospects of getting out — or ahead — when one day, walking down the beach, you find a big plastic bag filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars? The cash will change your life, but it may also take it.
Luis Gonzalez, an honest, hard-working man from a small village in the Mexican highlands, is laid off from his construction job. As days and weeks go by with no other prospects, as money runs out, he discovers his young daughter needs surgery to repair a hole in her heart or she will die. But the surgery is expensive and he can’t possibly afford it. When he’s approached by a friend of a friend to make just one run, delivering a cache of drugs for a cartel off-shoot in exchange for a huge payoff that would pay for his daughter’s surgery, he takes a chance. But it all goes disastrously wrong. As he barrels along a deserted dirt road in the tierra caliente, the “hot land”, plumes of fine red dust swirl in his wake, obscuring what — or who — could be gaining on him. In his mounting fear, he focuses on the face of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the virgin of protection, dangling at the end of a string of rosary beads that swing from his rearview mirror, and whispers a silent prayer.
Meanwhile, Laurel Taylor, a lonely, 40-year-old suburban high school teacher whose professor husband has emotionally drifted away like an ice floe, spending increasing amounts of time on his research, is filled with anxiety as the years stack up and fall away like dominoes. She is afraid that she is living life on the surface; that she is missing something deeper and more meaningful if only she knew what that was. As she lies awake at night, mentally thumbing through the blank pages of her day, she feels empty and worthless. Living nearly 20 years under the shadow of her intellectual husband, following his life rather than her own, she makes the decision to escape, if only for a few months, to find out exactly who Laurel Taylor is. She rents a small casa in a remote village on the Mexican coast, intending to blend in with the locals and just “be”, hoping to learn more about herself, what she really wants for the last half of her life, and whether that includes her husband. What she doesn’t expect is that of the many locals she will meet, one will steal her heart, and another will attempt to steal her life.
Luis and Laurel’s lives are soon to intersect, under dangerous circumstances, innocently precipitated by an impoverished 12-year-old girl by the name of Pia Salinas, who finds a large plastic bag stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, on the beach of her small village. The same beach where Laurel has rented her casa, the same beach where Luis washes ashore after going overboard in the drug deal gone bad, the same beach where the murderous double-crosser comes to recover his loot.
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Robin Roberts
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Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's morning show Good Morning America. After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005). She became co-anchor on Good Morning America in 2005. She has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome.
Though born in Alabama, Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis, among other sports. She attended Pass Christian High School and graduated as the class of 1979 salutatorian. She is the daughter of Lucimarian Tolliver and Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts. In a 2006 presentation to the assembled student body at Abilene Christian University, Roberts credited her parents as cultivating the "three 'D's: Discipline, Determination, and 'De Lord'." She is the youngest of four, following siblings Sally-Ann, Lawrence, Jr. (nicknamed Butch), and Dorothy. Her father was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen.
Roberts attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, graduating cum laude in 1983 with a degree in communication. She followed in the footsteps of her older sister Sally-Ann Roberts, an anchor at the CBS affiliate WWL in New Orleans.
She joined ESPN as a sportscaster in February 1990, where she stayed until 2005. She became well known on Sportscenter for her catchphrase, "Go on with your bad self!" Roberts began to work for ABC News, specifically as a featured reporter, for Good Morning America in June 1995. In 2001, Roberts received the Mel Greenberg Media Award, presented by the WBCA. For many years, Roberts worked at both ESPN and Good Morning America, contributing to both programs. During that time, she served primarily as the news anchor at GMA. In 2005, Roberts was promoted to co-anchor of Good Morning America. In December 2009, Roberts was joined by George Stephanopoulos as co-anchor of GMA after Diane Sawyer left to anchor ABC World News. Under their partnership, the Roberts-Stephanopoulos team led Good Morning America back to the top of the ratings; the program became the number-one morning show again in April 2012, beating NBC's Today, which had held the top spot for the previous 16 years.
Roberts is a practicing Christian. In 2007, Roberts was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. She underwent surgery on August 3, and by January 2008 had completed eight chemotherapy treatments, followed by 61⁄2 weeks of radiation treatment.
In 2012, she was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a disease of the bone marrow. Be the Match Registry, a nonprofit organization run by the National Marrow Donor Program, experienced a 1,800% spike in donors the day Roberts went public with her illness. She took a leave from GMA to get a bone marrow transplant, and went home in October 2012. She returned to GMA on February 20, 2013. Roberts received a 2012 Peabody Award for the program. The Peabody citation credits her for "allowing her network to document and build a public service campaign around her battle with rare disease" and "inspir[ing] hundreds of potential bone marrow donors to register and heighten[ing] awareness of the need for even more donors." ESPN awarded its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Robin Roberts at the 2013 ESPYs.
Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's morning show Good Morning America. After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005). She became co-anchor on Good Morning America in 2005. She has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome.
Though born in Alabama, Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis, among other sports. She attended Pass Christian High School and graduated as the class of 1979 salutatorian. She is the daughter of Lucimarian Tolliver and Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts. In a 2006 presentation to the assembled student body at Abilene Christian University, Roberts credited her parents as cultivating the "three 'D's: Discipline, Determination, and 'De Lord'." She is the youngest of four, following siblings Sally-Ann, Lawrence, Jr. (nicknamed Butch), and Dorothy. Her father was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen.
Roberts attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, graduating cum laude in 1983 with a degree in communication. She followed in the footsteps of her older sister Sally-Ann Roberts, an anchor at the CBS affiliate WWL in New Orleans.
She joined ESPN as a sportscaster in February 1990, where she stayed until 2005. She became well known on Sportscenter for her catchphrase, "Go on with your bad self!" Roberts began to work for ABC News, specifically as a featured reporter, for Good Morning America in June 1995. In 2001, Roberts received the Mel Greenberg Media Award, presented by the WBCA. For many years, Roberts worked at both ESPN and Good Morning America, contributing to both programs. During that time, she served primarily as the news anchor at GMA. In 2005, Roberts was promoted to co-anchor of Good Morning America. In December 2009, Roberts was joined by George Stephanopoulos as co-anchor of GMA after Diane Sawyer left to anchor ABC World News. Under their partnership, the Roberts-Stephanopoulos team led Good Morning America back to the top of the ratings; the program became the number-one morning show again in April 2012, beating NBC's Today, which had held the top spot for the previous 16 years.
Roberts is a practicing Christian. In 2007, Roberts was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. She underwent surgery on August 3, and by January 2008 had completed eight chemotherapy treatments, followed by 61⁄2 weeks of radiation treatment.
In 2012, she was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a disease of the bone marrow. Be the Match Registry, a nonprofit organization run by the National Marrow Donor Program, experienced a 1,800% spike in donors the day Roberts went public with her illness. She took a leave from GMA to get a bone marrow transplant, and went home in October 2012. She returned to GMA on February 20, 2013. Roberts received a 2012 Peabody Award for the program. The Peabody citation credits her for "allowing her network to document and build a public service campaign around her battle with rare disease" and "inspir[ing] hundreds of potential bone marrow donors to register and heighten[ing] awareness of the need for even more donors." ESPN awarded its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Robin Roberts at the 2013 ESPYs.
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