JULIA ORMOND PHONES IN
*The Pursuit Of Love: British Actress Emily Beecham Phones In From Berlin
*A Conversation With UK Actress Julia Ormond About Films Past And Present
**Arts Express, Always Fresh - Never A Repeat Show**
** The Civil Rights Movement, Fidel, Che, Lisa Howard - And How 'Easy Is The Kiss Of Death' On Screen: A Conversation With Julia Ormond.
The British actress discusses her films past and present - including tragic ABC News reporter Lisa Howard in Che, the psychological thriller Reunion, and as a Montgomery, Alabama left wing activist in the Spike Lee produced Son Of The South.
** Emily Beecham On The Pursuit Of Love. Beecham phones in from Berlin in a conversation about the Emily Mortimer directed UK dramatic series.
Touching on the comic, melancholy and rebellious urges of 20th century wartime women at that historical moment in time - and the challenge of those issues that persist today. Along with Beecham's memories of mothering Emma Stone in Cruella - and her upcoming role as the younger Vanessa Redgrave in The Outside Room.
**Arts Express Playhouse: Revisiting youth memories summoned in connection to an East Harlem pool hall at 3:30am; 24 hour tacos with a line out the door; and a new friend from New Delhi...
** "This battle for the soul of popular media is actually between profit driven conglomerates vs. national governments and individual creators - who are attempting to retain some shred of their own culture."
Bro On The Global Television Beat: Entertainment Media Conglomerates Up Against Governments. And corporate entities like Netflix are not only in competition with each other, but increasingly with governments globally as well - and how that offscreen drama is playing out around the world.
News From Strange Places...Brainwashing At The Movies - Updates and recent investigations into the Pentagon calling the shots, regarding the portrayal of the US military in any number of movies. Including mandatory 'professional development sessions' with Hollywood - whatever that means - in exchange for access and props.
** Arts Express In The News**
*Arts Express has a seven page spread in the latest issue of the respected journal New Politics, which published Jack Shalom's Arts Express interview with satirical songwriter Roy Zimmerman
*The Pacifica Network Newsletter featured Arts Express as the Affiliate Stations Program Of The Month
And...The Arts Express Magazine August Issue. Subscribe for free at: artsexpresslist@gmail.com
Arts Express Magazine: Visual And Visionary Companion To Arts Express Radio
The August Arts Express Magazine commemorates the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a presentation of NIJU HIBACKUSHA: A Noh Ghost Play by Lionelle Hamanaka - a NYC based Sansei actress, playwright, poet, author, journalist, and producer on WBAI Radio.
"Thank you Prairie Miller for exposing me to extremist content all these years on the radio!"