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Arts Express

Tue, Apr 20, 2021 4:00 AM

HOT SEAT: KEN BURNS TALKS HEMINGWAY

** "The mythology is what gets in the way with Hemingway. It's a mythology that he helped create. Filled with tall tales and outright lies, when he became 'king of the fiction racket' as his friend John Dos Passos said - and he suffered immensely for it."

Hot Seat: Ken Burns Talks 'His' Hemingway. It's well...complicated.
Filmmaker Ken Burns takes the Arts Express Hot Seat, probing his just released PBS controversial documentary, Hemingway. And with much more than meets the eye reactions as to who is the real Hemingway - or not.

With connections to the FBI, the Cuban Revolution, sexism, racism, socialism - and that PBS protest letter signed by nearly 140 directors calling out the public station's lack of diversity in its airing of primarily white filmmakers - especially its over-reliance on Burns.

** "Bear with me...I want to tell you something about happiness."

Radio Drama Corne
r: Jack Shalom performs the verse of Paul Hostovsky, 'capturing the small moments of life we've only half noticed.'

Plus...Vintage ironic poetry with music. 

 

 


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