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Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor’s shoes in

NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’

By MARK KENNEDY and a 12-year-old girl who
AP Entertainment Writer gets seizures whenever she
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s laughs.
a great moment in the first Aside from the weekly
episode of the new NBC emergencies, there is also
medical drama “Brilliant a longer, series-long nar-
Minds” when it becomes rative exploring Wolf’s per-
very clear that we’re not sonal life and his fraught
dealing with a typical TV relationship with his doctor
doctor. parents, especially his late
Zachary Quinto is behind father, who had mental ill-
the wheel of a car barreling ness.
down a New York City park- “I think over the course of
way, packed with hospital the season, we see Dr. Wolf
interns, abruptly weaving in start to let his guard down
and out of lanes, when one a little bit by helping his
of them asks, “Does anyone patients and by mentoring
want to share a Klonopin?” the interns. And he’s learn-
a drug sometimes used to ing from them as much as
treat panic disorders. they’re learning from him,”
“Oh, glory to God, yes, says creator and showrun-
please,” says Quinto, Actor Zachary Quinto poses for a portrait on Friday, March 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. ner Michael Grassi.
reaching an arm into the Associated Press The series hopes to satisfy
back seat. The internthen and was once called the cycle-riding, fern-loving ad- use the real life person as viewers who come for the
breaks the pill in half and “poet laureate of medi- vocate for mental health our North Star through ev- complex medical mysteries
gives a sliver to the driver, cine.” who died in 2015 at 82 and erything we’re doing and with delicious jargon like
who swallows it, as the “He was someone who was puts him in the present day, all the stories that we were “elevated intracranial pres-
other interns share stunned tirelessly committed to the where the creators theo- telling, but we were able to sure” and “abnormal neu-
looks. dignity of the human expe- rize he would have no idea find our own flavor and our rocardiogenic reflex” but
Quinto, playing the char- rience. And so I feel really who Taylor Swift is or own a own perspective in the tell- also the very human con-
acter Dr. Oliver Wolf, is grateful to be able to tell cell phone. The series de- ing of those stories as well.” nections between patient
clearly not portraying any his story and to continue his buts Monday on NBC, right In upcoming episodes, and doctor.
dour, by-the-rules doctor legacy in a way that I hope after “The Voice.” Wolf and his team deal “I always say if people
here he’s playing a char- our show is able to do,” “It’s almost as if we’re imag- with a biker friend whose watch our show and they
acter inspired by Dr. Oliver says Quinto. ining what it would have brain tumor is affecting his see themselves and the
Sacks, the path-breaking He’s a fern-loving doctor been like if Oliver Sacks memories, a mother who stories that we’re telling,
researcher and author who “Brilliant Minds” takes had been born at a differ- after surgery feels discon- then we’re doing our job,”
rose to fame in the 1970s Sack’s personality a motor- ent time,” says Quinto. “We nected from her children, says Quinto.q

Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary

Peace Prize Foundation

By HILLEL ITALIE a lifetime achievement person. the foundation calls “the father’s “most enduring
AP National Writer award from the Dayton Lit- The Ohio-based founda- power of the written word interests have been a de-
NEW YORK (AP) — Less than erary Peace Prize Founda- tion announced Thursday to foster peace, social jus- votion to literature and a
two weeks before his 100th tion, which has set aside its that Carter was this year’s tice, and global under- near-constant pursuit of a
birthday, former President longstanding rule that the winner of the Ambassador standing.” peaceful resolution to con-
Jimmy Carter is receiving winner accept the honor in Richard C. Holbrooke Dis- “For the past 17 years, flict.”
tinguished Achievement one of the standing re- “It is gratifying to have the
Award, named for the late quirements to receive the Dayton Literary Peace
diplomat. In 2002, Carter Ambassador Richard C. Prize Foundation choose to
was awarded the Nobel Holbrooke Distinguished honor my grandfather with
Peace Prize for his human Achievement Award was a the Ambassador Richard
rights advocacy and for guaranty that the recipient C. Holbrooke Distinguished
brokering such agreements would appear in person in Achievement Award for
as the Camp David Ac- Dayton, OH for an on-stage a lifetime of work melding
cords between Egypt and interview and an awards two of his loves literature
Israel. ceremony,” Nicholas A. and peace,” Jason Carter
Carter, who turns 100 on Raines, executive director added.
Oct. 1, is in hospice care in of the Dayton foundation, On Thursday, the Founda-
Plains, Georgia. His grand- said in a statement. “This tion also announced that
son, Jason Carter, will ac- year we have decided to Paul Lynch’s “Prophet
cept the prize on his behalf waive that requirement Song” won the Dayton Lit-
during a November cer- and present the award in erary Peace Prize for Fic-
Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at emony that will honor the absentia, to President Jim- tion and Victor Luckerson’s
the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga., former president’s peace my Carter.” “Built from the Fire” won for
Aug. 23, 2015. efforts and his authorship of Jason Carter said in a state- nonfiction.q
Associated Press more than 30 books what ment that two of his grand-