Marlee Matlin: The Deaf Oscar Winner Who Makes the World Unmute Itself
Marlee Matlin and the Quiet Art of Shouting Louder Than Bombs By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk When Marlee Matlin flicked her fingers at the 93rd Academy Awards, half the planet thought she was giving the camera a sly middle-finger salute. In reality she was signing “thank you” in American Sign Language—proof, once again, that misinterpretation…
