Mark Medoff's 'Children of a Lesser God' brought deaf culture to a bigger stage
I wasn't old enough to see the original 1979 run of "Children of a Lesser God" by Mark Medoff, who died Tuesday at 79. But the 1986 movie and leading actress Marlee Matlin's Oscar win " the first for a deaf person " are ingrained in my impressionable childhood memory as a landmark event for our...