**Glass Ceiling or Class Ceiling? A conversation with former California First Lady and journalist Maria Shriver, confronting identity politics issues in health movement activism. And connected as well to Donald Trump and how the pharmaceutical industrial complex kicks in. Shriver also discusses what led her into executive producing the multi-award winning dramatic feature about Alzheimer's and starring Julianne Moore, Still Alice.

**Broe On The World Film Beat, and Paris Uprising Update. Arts Express Paris correspondent Professor Dennis Broe at Cannes, weighing in on the Best Of The Rest in his Festival Wrap-Up Report. And highlighting those significant features marginalized at Cannes this year, with a focus on the Laura Poitras Wikileaks doc, Risk; Neruda, Pinochet and the 'time of the toad'; film noir in the age of austerity; and sexual violence in the fascist classroom. And, in his on location Paris Uprising Update, assessing the current convergence of simultaneous rising tides of revolution, global warming Paris floods, and an imminent soccer tournament.

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**Book Corner: Stand With Friedman. And what Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has to do with the struggle against censorship and persecution in US public schools. And, who is the real monster here. Along with the not unrelated lessons to be gleaned from that enduring classic Frankenstein, including Man playing God, and what it means to be an outcast. Jack Shalom is on the case, reporting for the Book Corner.

**Hitler's Folly: Irreverent animated filmmaker Bill Plympton imagines in his latest controversial cartoon mockumentary, what would Hitler have become if he stuck to his art work, instead of opting for war, terror and genocide. And, why Plympton worries about being assassinated, with the release of this film.