Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne as Deborah Lacks and Rebecca Skloot, respectively. (Quantrell Colbert/HBO) This piece discusses “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the plot of which has been ...

The movie is based on a bestselling book, "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks." It's a true story in which the title character is played by Oprah Winfrey in her first leading role in a TV movie ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is beautifully shot, economically told (if anything it feels too rushed) and respectful to the legacy of the HeLa cells. At its heart, however, is a ...

Her real name is Henrietta Lacks. I've spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she'd think about cells from her cervix ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”By Rebecca SklootCrown, 369 pages, $26Dr. George Gey and his wife Margaret had been trying to grow cells outside the human body for thirty years when ...

Oprah Winfrey to star in HBO Films' biopic 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' Tennessee mother calls Henrietta Lacks book pornographic, seeks school ban. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

The scientific story told in Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is marvel enough: Lacks died in 1951, but also lives on in the form of cells, taken from a single biopsy, that ...

As I worked my way through graduate school studying writing, I became fixated on the idea of someday telling Henrietta's story. At one point I even called directory assistance in Baltimore looking ...

‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’: TV Review. Oprah Winfrey stars as the daughter of a woman who inadvertently advanced medical science in the tepid HBO melodrama 'The Immortal Life of ...

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot . Trending: Barry Morphew indicted in wife’s murder Denver braces for triple-digit heat wave 🌡️ ...