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Ex-con Cleary Wolters joins the Steve Fast Show. Wolters former lover Piper Kerman, wrote the memoir that is the basis for the tv show "Orange is the New Black." Wolters was surprised to find she was the basis for a character on the show. #OrangeistheNewBlack #PiperKerman
Best of Shows replaying interviews with Cleary Wolters, author of "Out of Orange: A Memoir", on being the "real-life Alex Vause" from the critically acclaimed Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. AIDS & LGBT activist Cleve Jones, on the history of the San Francisco Pride Parade.
Cleary Wolters, author of "Out of Orange: A Memoir", on being the "real-life Alex Vause" from the critically acclaimed Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. AIDS & LGBT activist Cleve Jones, on the history of the San Francisco Pride Parade.
For Beyond 50's "History" talks, listen to an interview with Cleary Wolters. If you are a fan of the popular, Emmy-winning Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black" that introduced Piper Kerman, get the fascinating back story from from Cleary Wolter, the real-life Alex Vause. She'll talk about their friendship and marriage; the difference between what people think goes on in prison and the reality; and how the show has impacted her life. Cleary was charged with conspiracy to import heroin and service almost six years in a Dublin, California prison before being paroled in 2008. Piper spent thirteen months in a Danbury, Connecticut, minimum-security prison beginning in 2004. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.
Many of you, I’m sure, think you’d love the idea of seeing your life portrayed in movies or television. But imagine if you knew nothing about it. If one day, you saw an ad for a TV show, and you, or at least your life, was the central character. Would you be scared, shocked, angry, a little excited. Cleary Wolters experienced all of thee things.As she saw her life in prison portrayed as Alex Vaus in ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK.Originally portrayed as Nora Jansen in Piper Kerman’s book, her life would transform again as a result of her story becoming part of an entertainment and cultural juggernaut.Now Cleary Wolters takes her star turn as a writer and tells her story in her memoir Out of Orange: A Memoir.My conversation with Cleary Wolters:
In this double-interview episode we hear from the master storyteller and multiple Moth Story Slam winner, David Crabb, about his hilarious coming-of-age memoir, BAD KID. Bonus interview with Cleary Wolters, real-life former lover of Piper Kerman, the author of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, about her new memoir, OUT OF ORANGE.