October 2010
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fresh air halloween party
about to get underway. there will be pictures.
agenda:
1. eat candy
2. play with children of fresh air staffers
3. record those children in the studio doing something hilarious
4. ???
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Fresh Air Friday Book Club: Halloween Edition --...
In honor of Halloween, this week’s book question is: What’s your favorite scary book or story?
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“She’s pierced all over, her eyes and lips rimmed in black, looking like a...”
– David Edelstein, on Noomi Rapice, “the only thing of interest” in The Girl With The Dragging Plot:
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Stephen Sondheim audio is up. Enjoy!
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“I think a lot of Mexican-Americans, at least myself, feel split. Sometimes you...”
– Eugene Rodriguez, the leader of the band Los Cenzontles, on the song “Soy Mexicano, Americano” from their album Raza De Oro.
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“If you’re talking about Aha! moments, that comes with any collaboration....”
– Stephen Sondheim, on how he came up with the phrase ‘let me entertain you,’ in an interview with Terry Gross, October 28, 2010.
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Audio for Terry’s interview with Gretchen...
“They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.”
– Sweeney Todd (via keelysimpkin)
“I’m leaving you alone - squirming in the mess that you made/ Fix it on your own...”
– Last Midnight (via Into the Woods)
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“It was all about expedience. It was all about speed. It’s just a really...”
– Gretchen Morgenson, who covers the world financial markets for The New York Times, untangles the complex foreclosure mess and explains the flawed paperwork trail that has led to the reexamination of hundreds of thousands of foreclosure cases.
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Audio for Terry’s interview with Oliver...
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One Mess That Can’t Be Papered Over →
Our guest tomorrow, Gretchen Morgenson, will talk about this ongoing foreclosure mess — what it means for the economy, who’s to blame, and what we can do about it, going forward.
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Keith Richards' Terms of Endearment for Terry...
austinkleon:
I did it lying down, darling.
I don’t know about you, honey, but I do most of this stuff lying down.
Darling, I don’t know. I dreamt it.
I love them both, honey. Don’t ask me to cut the babies in half.
I mean, it’s only rock n’ roll, honey.
I didnt never knew what they called it, honey.
I mean, boo, we all bump into death at one time or another, honey.
Good try, honey.
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jesse--boy asked: Are you going to do anything with Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, or any other quintessential Sondheim actors during the segment? I look forward to hearing it! I love Sondheim.
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“Does anyone else hear Ethel Merman?”
– Fresh Air employee, 10/26/10. (And yes, this means we’re in full preparing-for-Sondheim mode)
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“I sometimes find myself just admiring the pockets of space between the different...”
– Sue Barry, a neurobiologist, had been cross-eyed since early infancy. As a result, she viewed the world in a flat plane and had no stereoscopic 3-D vision. In her mid-40s, Barry met the neurologist Oliver Sacks at a dinner party. She told him that she didn’t think she was missing much by...
bluebears-deactivated20121029 asked: I don't know if you'd know this, but when are the older episodes of Fresh Air going to be available on the website? Because if the interview is prior to a certain date it just says audio unavailable. Or are they ever?
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'Musicophilia' Examines Music in the Mind →
Oliver Sacks has been on Fresh Air twice before, once in 1987 to discuss his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and once in 2007, to discuss the relationship between music and the mind.
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WatchOliver Sacks, What Hallucinations Reveal About Our Minds
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Audio for Terry’s interview with Keith...
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A Neurologist's Notebook: Stereo Sue →
The New Yorker took this piece by Oliver Sacks about Sue Barry for our audience. Thanks New Yorker!
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“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears- it is a remedy, a...”
– (Our guest tomorrow) Oliver Sacks (via jesileal) 