Remember a while back when the daily KB was all about HeLa cells? Well, it looks like Big O is teaming up with HBO to produce a movie about the woman who is reason we have HeLa cells. Pam101 is making a note to watch this but first I am reading the book!
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey is joining with Alan Ball to produce an HBO film based on the nonfiction best-seller "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks."
The network said Wednesday that Ball, creator and executive producer of HBO's drama series "True Blood," will develop the project with Winfrey and her Harpo Films studio.
Written by Rebecca Skloot, "The Immortal Life" tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her consent, pieces of the tumor that killed her were removed and used for medical exploration and to build a billion-dollar research industry.
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