** "That's the message of the film, use your gift whatever it is - and that's very difficult, sometimes it's very hard..."

Miranda Richardson Talks The Yellow Tie, Her Eva Braun, And Surviving T.S. Eliot, Churchill, And British Union Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley In Her Movies. And well, the challenges of the British actress opposite many complicated and difficult men. Along with counting her performance opposite John Malkovich in The Yellow Tie, as the fourth time with him on screen.

Arts Express caught up with Richardson at the Santa Barbara Film Festival for The Yellow Tie premiere, the biographical drama of yet another complicated male, 20th century famed conductor Sergiu Celibidache, essentially a purist and kind of Luddite classical musician. Trained while living under Nazi terror in Germany, conducting through the '70's and '80's in his native Romania - and refusing during his life to perform in the US, denouncing the corporate control and corruption of music there.

** "The blizzard of revelations about your country, my country - so what happens next..."

The Epstein files, Minneapolis, the Melania movie and more...Pacifica Host Garland Nixon drops by the show of UK host, politician, and prior host himself on Pacifica, George Galloway, diving together into the art of figuring out the world. With additional connections to Musk chasing the dragon, Gates, Google, aliens and the stock market..."

Plus...Slamdance: The Bulldogs. A conversation with the filmmakers, who return to the scene of the crime - the site of the East Palestine, Ohio railroad derailment and chemical spill disaster three years ago there, to investigate how the company resolved the catastrophe. Or not...

** "From racketeer to capitalist and the Melania documentary - not a film but a sham exercise in branding..."

Bro On The Global Literary Beat - 'The art of scamming: Melville Twain, Thompson, Bro's Pornocopia - 'and our own scammer in chief and crime novels. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on 'how the con man permeates American literature and the government' - the journey through US literature to Pornocopia...