my name is adrienne c. moore and this is my briefut spectacular take on all the characters of my life. >> woodruff: and y can watch additional brief but spectacular episodes on our web site, pbs.org/nehour/brief. tonight the newshour has a special report airing on pbs, "the plastic problem." our newshour reporting teams spent more than a year examining how our global dependence on plastic has created one of the biggest environmental threats to our planet. amna nawaz hosts the program and here's a quick look. >> nawaz: the oceans are swimming in it... rivers are choked with it. coastlines are collecting it. landfills are clogged with it... outhtrash bags are filled wi it...fl and it's eveoating in the air we breathe.>> magine spreading out nine billion metric tons evenly. we could cover the whole of argentina in plastic or california six times over. >> nawaz: it's plastic: the material we can't seem to liveou wi that also lasts longer than a lifetime. plastic can take hundreds ofak years to bown, and even then onl

judy: tonight's brief but adrienne c. moore, known for her role in "orange is the new black."ens up abe impact her father had on her. this is part of canvas, our covering of art and culture. >> what i love about acting and being in front of people is honestly, seeing their expressions. my first production i can remember was the best christmas pageant ever inle nashv tennessee had no lines, just a chus part. that gave me a chance to look at every person in the audience during the show and see them smile and laugh and have feelings and emotions. from that moment on, i said i want to do this for the rest of my life. "orange is the new black" came about just like any other audition. they cled me in for black cindy. when i read it, i said, i know this girl. to me, she represented a lot of girls i have run aoss when moved to atlanta, very fiery and speak their minds and pop their fingers and rolled their eyes their truth.ds and tell when i read her, i thought, i could embody her. she got screwed by me, by everybody. suzanne, everything ibroken and life is unfair. when are you going