Nancy Becker Kennedy:  

CLASS OF 1969
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Skokie, IL
SUNY at BinghamtonClass of 1972
Binghamton, NY
Knox CollegeClass of 1970
Galesburg, IL
Skokie, IL

Nancy's Story

I've become a shrink. Oy vey! They're letting the lunatics run the asylum! Here's my professional bio. I will write something more chummy when I get a minute. How ya doin? Wassup with you? Are you havin fun in this adventure known as life after Niles East? I am. It's rocky and glorious and much in between but you can't say it ain't interesting. Oops, Correction: "You can not say it isn't of interest." Sorry Mrs. Todd. So chums send an email if the spirit grabs you and tell me wassup. Here's what my spin doctor says about moi: WHO THE HELL IS NANCY BECKER KENNEDY? WHY DOES SHE HAVE SO MANY NAMES, AND WHY IS SHE ALMOST ALWAYS SITTING ? Injured in a diving accident at age twenty, Nancy Becker Kennedy returned to college to complete a masters degree in communications. She went on to become a news producer for public television, a published playwright, award winning writer and composer as well as the first person in a wheelchair to star as a series regular in both daytime "General Hospital" and night time "The Louie Show/CBS" television. Nancy's committed to opening doors. A lifelong activist, she has lobbied congress to advance the rights of people with disabilities and has been arrested more times than she can remember for acts of non violent civil disobedience as a member of ADAPT American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, a national civil rights organization that fights for the release of people who are inappropriately locked away in nursing homes and institutions. With the arts, Nancy opens another kind of door--the door of the heart that sometimes closes in fear when you s...Expand for more
ee someone in a wheelchair. Having spent equal time in both worlds, and possessing unusual candor, warmth and iconoclastic humor, Nancy's uniquely qualified at helping people deal with the discomfort that can exist between people with disabilities and people without them. When asked how she can answer intimate questions with so much ease, she replies "The deeply seated answer is that I am unbelievably insensitive." In addition to her work as a comedian, playwright, stage and television actress, Nancy Becker Kennedy is a nationally recognized expert featured in magazines ranging from "Ms." to Penthouse where she was touted along with John Callahan as ushers of a new era of disability "hip" humor." She has given countless television and radio interviews including featured stories on "Sixty Minutes," an upcoming segment of "Sixty Minutes 2," "CBS 'Eye on America' with Dan Rather," "CBS Nightwatch" with Charlie Rose," as well as print media including "The New York Times" "The Washington Post" and "New Republic." Nancy is a Contributing Editor to the award winning national magazine "New Mobility," and is currently touring with her autobiographical play "I Had to Break My Neck to Get Here." Here's what people are saying about Nancy Becker Kennedy: "Nancy is brave, her humor is biting, but most of all, she's funny!"--Mitzi Shore, The Comedy Store, "Nancy Becker Kennedy can deliver a line like no one deliver a line"--Louie Anderson. "Lundgren's sardonic assistant Helen (Nancy Becker Kennedy) though in a wheelchair, makes her way with vital assurance." --Miles Beller, The Hollywood Reporter
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I love love love these flowers that the San Gabriel  Nursery put together for me. I did a lot of research on gardening so we could put this together.
We will plant them tomorrow! I love my window box!
Bertha and me doing the Benihana thing
Look at the gorgeous Lily the wonderful Janet Boris gave me happy pesach and happy Easter!
i love this.  Enjoy!
I'm excited that I lit my first Hanukkah candle tonight! Happy Hanukkah everybody! Hanukkah means that things will get brighter and brighter! Thanks to Richard Tanner for the beautiful candles that were much longer  earlier
Doctor said things look better. A little brighter
I swear I saw my mother making fried matzah across the counter ! My Rosh Hashanah dinner from Gelson's. with gefilte fish mogen David Wine brisket egg matzah and honey. I would have had chopped liver but Gelson's sent raw c
More light everyday! We have the Reserves to make it through the darkest night.and get back to where we can fully appreciate all the joys!
Oh the good old days and uncle Wally and Sandy's backyard!
My beautiful flowers today that my loving caregivers gave me from their Gardens or bought for me from the 99 Cents Store. they're sweethearts and they bless me.
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Oh the aunts and uncles and our wonderful mothers and fathers!
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