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Arts Express

Tue, Oct 6, 2020 04:00 AM

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Hosts: Prairie Miller
Topics:
  • *Erin Brockovich Talks Superman's Not Coming -
  • *Driving While Black, His Own Life: Ric Burns Phones In -
  • *Johanna Fernandez On The Young Lords: A Radical History, Part 2 -
  • *News From Strange Places  -
Synopsis:

*Erin Brockovich Talks Superman's Not Coming
*Driving While Black, His Own Life: Ric Burns Phones In
*Johanna Fernandez On The Young Lords: A Radical History, Part 2

** If you smell something, say something!

Superman's Not Coming: Erin Brockovich on her book about not taking no for an answer, when it comes to setting the corporations straight about pollution. The famed, decidedly unconventional environmental activist has crafted a grassroots guide on how to "take all your frustrations and turn it into action - even if Superman's not coming.'

Along with putting on a critics hat for a moment, to give her take on the Steven Soderbergh 2000 movie that bears her name, starring Julia Roberts.

** "I went through a kind of family university, a school of Ken Burns. And when it was done, the Frankenstein part of it is that I needed to find my own niche - the darker, more catastrophic. Ken had been drawn to stories in a sense more triumphant and victorious. He had monopolized success, so I went towards complexity and failure."

Ric Burns On Driving While Black: The filmmaker's upcoming documentary about that Jim Crow history - a dubious racial mix of freedom and fear on the roads of this country.
Burns likewise discusses his own difficult road as a filmmaker, in the shadow of his more prominent brother. And, a look at his current Oliver Sacks documentary, His Own Life.

** "There are decades where nothing happens - and these are weeks when decades happen."

Book Corner: Jack Shalom in a continuing conversation with Johanna Fernandez, WBAI host and author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. And with those words from Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Fernandez considers lessons to be learned, and finding the future.

Plus...News From Strange Places - The US Supreme Court to Hong Kong...

Guests:
  • Erin Brockovich, environmental activist, author -
  • Johanna Fernandez, WBAI radio host, author -
  • Ric Burns, filmmaker -
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