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Title: Studio 360: The 'War on Women' & Will Ferrell
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-10-12
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Summary:
So much for the economy, stupid: birth control is currently the hot button issue of the campaign season. Rush Limbaughs noxious remarks to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke (whom he called a "slut" and "prostitute" for testifying in support of contraception coverage, then demanded that she make and post sex videos) led to a rare apology. Liberals, however, insist that his attack is part and parcel of a conservative war on women that includes restrictions on abortion, controversy over Planned Parenthood, and opposition to women in combat.
Then, weve always heard the television brought Americans together. Now a lot of whats on just makes us mad at each other. Sociologist Max Kilger says you can tell a persons politics by the television they watch. If youre a CSI junkie, you likely vote conservative: Its got good structure. Its got good closure. Theres often a lot of decisiveness about what action should be to be taken. If you like Weeds, youre probably a liberal: Liberal comedies tend to either mock traditional things or produce unusual or unexpected kinds of situations.
After that, Will Ferrell can make just about anything funny: playing the flute, negotiating with a toddler, just standing around in his underpants. After seven years on Saturday Night Live, he took his impersonation of George W. Bush to Broadway in a one-man show. For his latest movie, he joined a cast of Mexican actors for a role performed entirely in Spanish. Casa de mi Padre is the big-screen version of a shoddy telenovela, with a cast led by Diego Luna.
Following that, last month, a giant of folk music died, the 93-year-old fiddler Joe Thompson. He was instrumental in carrying a very old tradition of African American string band music into the 21st century, and inspiring young proteges like the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Their new album Leaving Eden combines the old-time music they learned from Thompson with beatboxing.
After that, a few years ago when the Israeli director Joseph Cedar approached financiers with his latest film idea, they didn't know what to think: "This is a film about two Talmudic philologists competing for the top award in an area that no one has ever heard about. It's very hard to sell a project with this story," Cedar tells Kurt Andersen. But he did. Footnote has received a lot of international attention, including the best screenplay prize at Cannes in 2011 and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
And finally, in the 1980s, Marion Roach was a party girl and aspiring writer, clerking for The New York Times by day and hitting the clubs by night. She was in love with New York and like a lot of New Yorkers felt she was living in the center of the universe. But she sensed that there was more to a writing life than she was seeing. One day she was handed a copy of William Kennedys Legs. [Broadcast Date: March 10, 2012]
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Title: Studio 360: The 'War on Women' & Will Ferrell
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-10-12
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Summary:
So much for the economy, stupid: birth control is currently the hot button issue of the campaign season. Rush Limbaughs noxious remarks to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke (whom he called a "slut" and "prostitute" for testifying in support of contraception coverage, then demanded that she make and post sex videos) led to a rare apology. Liberals, however, insist that his attack is part and parcel of a conservative war on women that includes restrictions on abortion, controversy over Planned Parenthood, and opposition to women in combat.
Then, weve always heard the television brought Americans together. Now a lot of whats on just makes us mad at each other. Sociologist Max Kilger says you can tell a persons politics by the television they watch. If youre a CSI junkie, you likely vote conservative: Its got good structure. Its got good closure. Theres often a lot of decisiveness about what action should be to be taken. If you like Weeds, youre probably a liberal: Liberal comedies tend to either mock traditional things or produce unusual or unexpected kinds of situations.
After that, Will Ferrell can make just about anything funny: playing the flute, negotiating with a toddler, just standing around in his underpants. After seven years on Saturday Night Live, he took his impersonation of George W. Bush to Broadway in a one-man show. For his latest movie, he joined a cast of Mexican actors for a role performed entirely in Spanish. Casa de mi Padre is the big-screen version of a shoddy telenovela, with a cast led by Diego Luna.
Following that, last month, a giant of folk music died, the 93-year-old fiddler Joe Thompson. He was instrumental in carrying a very old tradition of African American string band music into the 21st century, and inspiring young proteges like the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Their new album Leaving Eden combines the old-time music they learned from Thompson with beatboxing.
After that, a few years ago when the Israeli director Joseph Cedar approached financiers with his latest film idea, they didn't know what to think: "This is a film about two Talmudic philologists competing for the top award in an area that no one has ever heard about. It's very hard to sell a project with this story," Cedar tells Kurt Andersen. But he did. Footnote has received a lot of international attention, including the best screenplay prize at Cannes in 2011 and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
And finally, in the 1980s, Marion Roach was a party girl and aspiring writer, clerking for The New York Times by day and hitting the clubs by night. She was in love with New York and like a lot of New Yorkers felt she was living in the center of the universe. But she sensed that there was more to a writing life than she was seeing. One day she was handed a copy of William Kennedys Legs. [Broadcast Date: March 10, 2012]
Listen to
by William Kennedy.
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