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Elizabeth Vargas of "The Untold Story" on A&E Network "I will tell you that I'm just finishing up binging 'Escape From Dannemora' (laughs), which I covered that story and I think Patricia Arquette and Benicio Del Toro are fantastic in it. I watch a lot of documentaries because I'm in that field and there are so many out there that are so well done. I just watched 'Escaping Neverland' on HBO, which was stunning. But I'm still a real news junkie. I spend most of my time if I have a television on, I've got some sort of news programming on ... ." Juju Chang of "Nature: American Spring Live" on PBS and "Nightline" on ABC "I'm watching 'Star Trek' on demand. ... I've been a lifelong 'Star Trek' fan so I'm watching that and I'm watching it with my kids. So we're going back and watching a couple of the original series' episodes because it ties into the current one. ... Oh, 'Killing Eve.' I enjoy 'Killing Eve.' Oh, and because I interviewed Henry Winkler, I watched ... 'Barry.' It's the kind of show I would never watch because it's a little too brutal for me. ... (But) it's really clever and it's really sort of, you know, how many psychopathic killers can we be obsessed about at one time? I think the answer is many because Barry is one of them. Yeah, it's hilarious." Anyone considering trying a plant-based diet might want to heed the words of Marie Wilson, a veteran actress who swore off animal proteins in her teens and hasn't looked back. "You feel amazing," she says. "It's interesting how when you take a week, you just try it for a week and then you go back, it's amazing the difference you feel between the two. ... I have more energy. I have more alertness. You just feel better and your body can process it better, too." Wilson, who stars in "Ladies of the Lake" and its follow-up "Ladies of the Lake: Return to Avalon," both of which are currently streaming on Amazon, has a long history with plant-based diets, longer in fact than her acting credits, which include stints on the daytime dramas "General Hospital" (1999-2003), "Port Charles" (1999-2003), "As the World Turns" (2005- 10) and "Days of our Lives" (2014-16), as well as roles in the movies "Say You Will" (2017) and "To the Beat!" (2018). She originally went vegetarian at 17 because that's what her friends were doing and then later when she tried a hamburger, she found it difficult to digest and painful. So out of necessity, animal fats were out and plants were in. For good. These days, she's a lover of salads and quinoa, which she says is delicious and a great source of protein. "Quinoa has more protein than even meat protein," she notes, "so that's been very enlightening. And also my stomach and my body appreciate it more because I can't really break down meat protein. ... So I've just been using quinoa with a lot of dishes and salads, and instead of rice you do a quinoa dish. There are so many choices, especially nowadays. It's not like we're living in the '50s, where it was a raw carrot and you're done." As for advice she'd give to prospective vegans or vegetarians, Wilson is succinct. "Be open-minded," she asserts, "because a lot of people have this judgment on what it's like and what the food tastes like and I think when we start judging anything in life, we kind of put limits up and it kind of cuts off great opportunities that might be available to you. So I think just being open-minded and trying something. And there's stuff I've tried and didn't like. "You won't love everything," she adds, "but that's the fun of experimenting and trying new things and just seeing what happens." Marie Wilson BY GEORGE DICKIE Actress Marie Wilson on her journey to a plant-based diet Page 8 May 6 - 12, 2019 The Business & Service Directory found every Wednesday in Nobody Covers Your Hometown Better

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