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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Movies

Episode 60: Martha Plimpton

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

 She began by working in movies she was too young to attend then later appeared on stage in musicals (Pal Joey) and straight plays (The Coast of Utopia). Now she stars in “Raising Hope” on Fox Television. Also impressive: how she uses her copious free time. The advocacy organization “A Is For…” is an expression … Continue reading »

Art

Episode 59: Alison Bechdel

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

 The number of people who can currently see their lives enacted on the musical stage is, I believe, three. Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys, that scary witch in Wicked—but she might be fictional—and Alison Bechdel, whose graphic memoir, Fun Home, is the basis of the hit show at New York’s Public Theater. She draws, she … Continue reading »

Comedy

Episode 58: Alan Zweibel

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

 Alan Zweibel enjoyed early success on the first five seasons of Saturday Night Live, often writing for Gilda Radner, with whom he shares the rare ability to be simultaneously funny and sweet. He went on to write some of the smartest shows on television, including Garry Shandling’s. Since then, he’s given us plays and books, … Continue reading »

Fiction

Episode 57: Sara Paretsky

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

 Sara Paretsky is best known for a series of crime novels featuring the first great woman private eye, V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky is also the founder of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports women crime writers, as well as a foundation to encourage women in the sciences. Critical Mass, her latest V.I. Warshawski, draws on … Continue reading »

Movies / Old Masters

Episode 56: Walter Bernstein

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

 Walter Bernstein was born in Brooklyn in 1919. For the next 94 years he wrote and co-wrote terrific movies for big stars: Fail Safe with Henry Fonda, The Train with Burt Lancaster, The Magnificent Seven with everybody—Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson. The Front, with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is … Continue reading »

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Person Place Thing is produced with the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio.  An interview show, it is based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result?  Surprising stories from great talkers.

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