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  • Luke Yankee talks about his compelling memoir/play  MARILYN, MOM & ME

    Luke Yankee talks about his compelling memoir/play MARILYN, MOM & ME

    Writer/director Luke Yankee had a childhood that reads like a screenplay of a Hollywood movie. His mother was the Academy Award-winning actress Eileen Heckart, who juggled her very successful Broadway/Hollywood career with her life as a wife and mother of three boys . In 1956, she was cast by triple Academy Award nominee Joshua Logan…