Arts Express

Wed, May 17, 2023 21:00 PM

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Hosts: Prairie Miller, Jack Shalom

Topics:

Leslie Uggams Talks Dottie & Soul - From blackface to black empowerment in a movie.
Corporate Media Watch: Contradiction. -
Arts Express Playhouse: Julian Assange Letter To King Charles -
** "Striking Against The Empire..." -
Bro On The World Cultural Beat: The Hollywood Writers Strike. -

Synopsis:

** "When we started the movie, we were already ahead of our time - and when we came back to finish the movie after covid, the world had caught up..."

Leslie Uggams Talks Dottie & Soul - From blackface to black empowerment in a movie. The eminent African American Roots, Deadpool and Empire actress and performer in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film, along with the offscreen challenges in her life. And shared memories beginning in her childhood on stage at the Apollo and on the big and small screens, with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Waters and Ruby Dee.

** "Once again, that's the word I use - contradiction. And I have to say this but I'll say it again - you're being lied to....."

Corporate Media Watch: Pacifica host and contributor to this show Garland Nixon, breaks it all down...

** "To his majesty, Charles III, a heartfelt invitation to you, by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom - His Majesty's prison, Belmarsh..." ~ Julian Assange

Arts Express Playhouse: A solo presentation, with connections to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, Shakespeare, the prohibition of chess, savored blended tuna heads, "the picturesque crows nesting in the razor wire, and the hundreds of hungry rats that call Belmarsh home..."

** "Striking Against The Empire..."

Bro On The World Cultural Beat: The Hollywood Writers Strike. How it's playing out, as to what you will or won't see in release locally and globally - and why. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe is on the case.

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Leslie Uggams, actress, performer -

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