Laury sacks biography of william

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pamela Hogan knew Laury Sachs before, as a talented, big-hearted friend, wife and mother. Connie Shulman knew Sacks after, when she was in the grip of the early onset dementia that would swiftly claim her life.

Together, documentarian Hogan and actress Shulman, who plays Yoga Jones in "Orange Is the New Black," carefully recorded Sachs' treacherous journey to help ease her isolation as the disease progressed.

"Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury," the result, debuts at 8 p.m.

EDT Tuesday (check local listings) on World Channel, part of the third season of its "America ReFramed." The documentary will stream on worldchannel.org starting Wednesday and through April 9.

Although Sacks herself was an actor and writer, it was motherhood that brought the three Manhattan residents together.

Their children were playmates and the women became friends: Hogan met Sacks in the late 1990s, and Shulman