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Arts Express

Thu, Dec 8, 2016   2:00 PM

SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL TALKS TRUMP, PATHS TO PEACE

A Path To Peace, Trump, Fake News, Shades Of Anger, Corporate Takeover Of The World, Forever Words, Building Our Occupation

"We are a country that is deeply divided. Our politics are polarized, and there isn't any immediate prospect of that changing."

**Senator George Mitchell Talks Trump, Paths To Peace, applying his book to this moment in history here. And phoning in to the show to delve into how the US Special Envoy and professional peacemaker would connect his global negotiating expertise to 'a way forward' in the face of what has come to light with the presidential election - a disaffection from the political establishment and an increasingly discredited corporate media losing ground to independent news reporting online.

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** "For me what Incorporated does, it leaps up into the future in sixty years time. And we can see that this is the outcome of us not making the right choices."

Incorporated: A Conversation With UK Actress Julia Ormond. And the Mad Men star's small screen prophetic sci-fi apocalyptic thriller miniseries, in which corporations in the near future have unlimited power, the world is in an environmental death spiral, and the impoverished masses are oppressed and powerless. Sound familiar? Produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

** "I believe that my father Johnny Cash was a poet of the very roots of the American soil."

Forever Words: The Unknown Poems Of Johnny Cash. In the Book Corner, John Carter Cash is on the line to Arts Express from Tennessee to discuss and read from the found poems of his later iconic father, considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Referencing mass incarceration, the Cumberland mud, harmonicas and horns, and a parallel autobiography in song lyric form.

**LIVE BY NIGHT: A Commentary: Combining old time gangster classic nostalgia with neo-noir menace, Ben Affleck's Live By Night is a bracing, hyperactive thriller, with moody vintage imagery and densely drawn portraits. Multi-tasking as director and star while adapting the Dennis Lehane original novel, Ben Affleck asserts his signature style and sensibility over both character and content, and the intensity is palpable.

Affleck as Joe Couglin is alternately driven, reckless and maniacally self-destructive, seemingly a dangerous brew of PTSD and vengeance against a society perpetrating an elaborate con of its own as covert counterpart to the openly raw and ruthless brutality of the underworld 'night' below. Moving up from bottom feeder gangster not without disorientation in a pathological daze, Coughlin is caught between an eerie cop for a father (Brendan Gleeson) and a toxic lover (Sienna Miller) tied to a deranged gangster (Robert Glenister). And with a misleadingly broad landscape stretching into the Deep South, and touching down in Tampa amidst a crazed Klan toe to toe with the Mafia. A confrontational cultural confusion that like the story itself, both intrigues and mystifies.

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SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL: A PATH TO PEACE