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Person Place Thing Episode 71: John Turturro

Apr 17, 2014

Many of us got to like him in Do the Right Thing and got to like him even more as he became part of the rep company of Spike Lee then of the Coen Brothers. And that represents just a few of his more than 60 films. His latest is Fading Gigolo: he wrote it,... More
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
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
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
Person Place Thing Episode 69: Griffin Dunne

Apr 3, 2014

He is the son of the the writer Dominick Dunne and the nephew of two more writers, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. That’s not really an accomplishment; it’s an accident of birth, like being French, only better, but it would have seemed coy, somehow, not to mention it. I first became aware of him... 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
In Conversation with VH-1’s “The Gossip Table”

Mar 31, 2014

The Evolution of Gossip—what is it? Why do so many people find it irresistible? How far back does it go? How has it changed over the years from content to dissemination? Does it serve any purpose at all? Who had it, has it and why? What’s the relationship between gossip and power? Low brow or... 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
Person Place Thing Episode 67: Andrew W. K.

Mar 20, 2014

Hard rocker and host of the Cartoon Network show “Destroy Build Destroy,” he is our first guest to have a hit record and to give a motivational speech at Yale. Best known for his songs It’s Time to Party, Party Hard and Party ‘Til You Puke, he has elevated the party from ephemeral fun to... More
The Genius of Rube Goldberg

Mar 10, 2014

Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg is no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in his seventy-two-year career, he wrote and illustrated nearly fifty thousand cartoons, which were syndicated in daily newspapers throughout the world. His granddaughter,... More
Person Place Thing Episode 65: Roddy Doyle

Mar 6, 2014

Like many people, I encountered Roddy Doyle through the Barrytown trilogy – The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van – three terrific novels, and later movies, set in the same fictional working class neighborhood of Dublin, novels that do things with dialogue I hadn’t thought possible. His newest, The Guts, revisits Jimmy Rabbitte – founder... More
Nerd Nite with Neil Janowitz, David Shuff and Dr. Ali Mattu

Mar 5, 2014

Learn about the unsavory origins of Tetris, the demise of the beloved 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ride at Disney World and whether or not the utopian vision of the future as depicted in Star Trek can become a reality. Get ready to to laugh and learn! More