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Reel Pieces: John Turturro with Annette Insdorf

Apr 17, 2014

Moderator Annette Insdorf interviews actor-writer-director John Turturro after a preview of his film, Fading Gigolo, in which he stars alongside Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban and Sofia Vergara. The film opens tonight. Watch more Reel Pieces videos, here. More
Reel Pieces: Kristen Wiig and Liza Johnson with Annette Insdorf

Apr 10, 2014

Moderator Annette Insdorf interviews actress Kristen Wiig and special guest Liza Johnson after a preview of Johnson’s film Hateship Loveship. In this quietly affecting drama adapted by Mark Poirier from Alice Munro’s 2001 short story, Wiig plays a shy caregiver hired by a widower (Nick Nolte) to look after his granddaughter (Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar nominee... More
Joshua D. Rauh: On Finance and States of the World

Apr 17, 2014

As part of our ongoing partnership with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, we spoke with Joshua D. Rauh, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, about city and state pensions for public employees. As he explains, state and local governments budget for pensions based... More
75 at 75: James Shapiro on Tom Stoppard

Mar 27, 2001

Posted on Apr 18, 2014
When I was sixteen I saw my brother act in a summer-stock production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and was hooked on Stoppard. When I got home I picked up a copy of Hamlet, which wasn’t taught in my high school. Encountering the two plays in that order left... More
Susie Essman with Judy Gold

Apr 3, 2014

Comedienne, actress and author Susie Essman (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) discusses her new Upper West Side-set comedy Putzel, living and working in New York City and her bigger-than-life persona with fellow award-winning actress Judy Gold. Download a copy of Putzel here, and enjoy the event! More
Person Place Thing Episode 70: Emanuel Ax

Apr 10, 2014

Pianist Emanuel Ax was born in Ukraine and lived in Warsaw and Winnipeg before arriving in New York, where he studied at Julliard and later at Columbia, earning a BA not in music but in French. One sign of his esteem as a performer is the roster of colleagues who’ve regularly performed with him, including... More
75 at 75: Yiyun Li on William Trevor

May 20, 1990

Posted on Apr 8, 2014
In September 2008 I traveled to East Sussex, England, to listen to William Trevor give a rare public reading at Small Wonder, a short-story festival. Later, at Lewes station, waiting for the train to London, Trevor told his wife Jane and me about an old man at the end of... More
John Varvatos on What Success Looks Like

Mar 27, 2014

Here for our Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis series, this clip features John Varatos talking about what success means to him. “Success feels that you’ve built a team that really works,” he said. More
3 Things The Israelis and Palestinians Need To Agree To For Peace

Apr 1, 2014

Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin identifies the three things that the Israelis and Palestinians need to agree to in order to achieve peace. His sense is that neither side is ready to agree to all three. The Israelis, Yadlin says, have to agree to two states; baseline for borders is 1967; and they have to agree... More

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75 at 75: James Atlas on Iris Murdoch

Feb 22, 1990

Posted on Dec 13, 2013
I have known three charismatic writers in my life: Philip Roth, Robert Lowell and Iris Murdoch. (A fourth, Saul Bellow, was what might be called anti-charismatic, by his own choice; he didn’t mind attention, but he liked to keep his self to himself.) And there is one venue that I... More
75 at 75: Sheila Heti on Truman Capote

Apr 7, 1963

Posted on Dec 12, 2013
“Just a minute while I stop being vain,” Truman Capote says, and one can hear the click of his glasses unfolding. He has just introduced his story “Among the Paths to Eden”: “Tonight I want to read a story which I have actually never read aloud, and that’s rather a... More
Naftali Bennett and Dan Senor: Threats Facing Israel In A Changing Middle East

Nov 17, 2013

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and Start-Up Nation co-author Dan Senor have a candid discussion about the threats Israel faces in a changing Middle East as well as the prospects for Israel’s economy and the challenges it faces in retaining its status as a hi-tech superpower. More

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