The Halloween Edition Of Arts Express This Week - Scary Times, From Paris To No Kings...

Trump Food Crisis - Let Them Eat Halloween Candy

** "Remove the regime" - 'wait a minute...'

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon and The Homeless Left on winners and losers of the week, and what's right and wrong with the demand-free demos on the streets and at the movies. And, is the strange fascination with busted billionaires on screen a possible case of 'Ponzi porn'...

** "I'm like, I have imposter syndrome, and I'm sure I'm gonna ruin that movie. So when I get through it successfully, it' like wow - I guess I fooled them one more time..."

On fascism, food, identity crisis syndrome, and Halloween scary in the real world: A Conversation With Doug Jones. The famed actor, contortionist and mime artist specializing in non-human creatures on screen, is our guest on the show - talking about the re-release on the 20th anniversary of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's gothic classic with political bite, Pan's Labyrinth.

And with Doug's simultaneous challenging depiction in the film, of both good and evil apparitions. The Pale Man symbolizing fascism, the brutality of dictator Franco's regime in post-civil war Spain - while also Pan/The Faun, in opposition to fascism. Jones likewise reflects on the legacy that seems to have passed down to him from late screen legend Lon Chaney as the 'man of many faces' and why...

** "On a stormy night in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was venturing to his lodgings at a late hour - but I should first tell you something about this young German..."

Arts Express Playhouse: The Adventure Of The German Student. A gothic tale of Wolfgang Gottfried in Paris - a lonely, visionary student prone to dark philosophical musings...'late one stormy night where the guillotine stands, he finds a young woman in black cowering on the steps of the scaffold...'

** "Murdoch's Wall Street Journal lead headline blared that 'Rioting Sweeps Country' - then returned to commercial oblivion right next to it with 'How Coke Beat Pepsi To Supply Beverages at KFC'..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on location where it's all happening, at the French mass uprisings in progress.
And 'characterizing these demonstrations as a pure eruption of violence as the last resort of a government and a media which has lost control of the narrative' - while a looming mass strike in November is set to confront 'the vast redistribution of wealth upwards...'