** "My dad has played iconic roles as someone quite terrifying, but that doesn't mean he is - my dad is one of the funniest people on the planet..."

Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - and his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm. And why and how Glenn Close switched up playing JD Vance's feisty when not scary grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy, to the grandma in his film requesting to frolic naked through woodland, in her first nude portrayal in a movie.

Along with how the rural retreat together of this family in mourning, is best expressed in the words of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda - 'If nothing saves us from death, may at least love save us from life...'

** "You know, as a former investigator, I'll tell you this - here's what I'm thinking.."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon teams up to sort things out with LA underground filmmaker Matt Weinglass, a director with expertise on plot holes as to - who is Lance Twiggs exactly. And what does all of this have to do with the case of Charlie Kirk, backwards narratives, suspicious suspects, and lots of question marks. The duo scratch their collective heads together...

** "But how could CRW Nevinson do any of that, when this is what he witnessed on the war front - when the corpses of fellow Brits, many of them younger than him lay in the mud, tangled in barbed wire?"

Hearing Art Interlude: Before/After War, The Artist And War. 'What we have here is an artist whose very art changed because of war.' An endless war meditation by Canvas essayist Shawn Grenier. And an observation by Lenin back then a century ago - 'A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends...'

** "All the news that fits, we cut - the Republican attack on public media..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on Trump's defunding of public television and radio - the sledgehammer solution. 'So what is to be done...'

Plus...'They lowered the McDonald's flag half-mast at Guantanamo. Anyway, yeah. Things are dark...'