I knew that Jennifer Beals and I were going to have a fantastic conversation ... which she’d compiled into a book in 2010 to hand out to the cast and crew after they’d wrapped the show. Having bowed ...

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Jennifer Beals is revealing ... working on the groundbreaking drama. Beals, 61, tells PEOPLE that, at first, she decided to make the book "as a personal remembrance" before later gifting it ...