Arts Express

Wed, Mar 29, 2023 21:00 PM

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Hosts: Prairie Miller, Jack Shalom

Topics:

John Sayles Talks Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey. -
Joel Thurm On Secrets Of The Casting Couch: As revealed in the Hollywood casting director's memoir, 'Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season.' -
Political activist and poet Mitchel Cohen, in the first episode of a memory lane musical presentation of his latest work, The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems And Snippets -
Plus...Gil Scott Heron, A Tribute... -

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** "It's about a Highlands Scot who is defeated, and instead of hanging him, the English transport him to the 'New World' - basically to serve as a slave for the rest of his life..."

John Sayles Talks Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey. The filmmaker, actor and author best known for the worker uprising classic, Matewan and Union Dues, delves into his latest historical novel. Referencing settler colonialism, indentured servitude, war, slavery, Native American uprisings - and 'always correcting the historical record taught in schools.'

** "There are certain people who I knew. And several, including two agents and a casting director who bragged to me how they went about doing it, because they thought I would actually be interested - and they could give me tips so I could do the same thing..."

Joel Thurm On Secrets Of The Casting Couch: As revealed in the Hollywood casting director's memoir, 'Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season.' And actually about all women in whatever job, whether lucrative or minimum wage, subjected to sex on demand to keep working.

** "The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was in the process of melting down - and the students, in their desperate fight for social justice, and in trying to make sense of the existence of the universe..."

Political activist and poet Mitchel Cohen, in the first episode of a memory lane musical presentation of his latest work, The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems And Snippets

Plus...Gil Scott Heron, a tribute with music on the occasion of the late legendary jazz poet, musician, author and spoken word performer's birthday celebration this week...

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John Sayles, filmmaker, author -
Joel Thurm, casting director, author -

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