In Search Of Fellini: A Conversation With Nancy Cartwright. The voice of Bart Simpson, among many other small screen characters, Cartwright phones in to the show to talk about as well, writing her first film based on her own wild adventures as a young woman pursuing her irrepressible creative obsession with the Italian filmmaking legend - and her quest to venture to Italy to track Fellini down back then.
Giulietta Masina in Federico Fellini's La Strada
** "Self-hatred is the big one - if they can keep us hating ourselves, there's no way in hell we have any chance of uniting with others, cooperating and working for a better future."
Ideology And Culture Corner: Investigative journalist Dean Henderson is on the line to Arts Express from the Missouri Ozarks to take on media manipulation of the masses, self-hatred at the movies, identity politics as a distraction, and workingclass stereotypes on the big and small screen - particularly when it comes to the distortions and caricatures of people living out their lives in this country, far from the big cities. While into healing this divided and broken nation via his anti-establishment website, Left Hook: A Weekly Whack At The Global Oligarchy.
** "In the case of the bearded woman, she physically was born the way she was born. And there was no way of hiding it, other than to just lock herself away - and this film celebrates the diversity in every single human being."
Keala Settle Talks 'This Is Me.' Which just won for her the award as Best Song at the Golden Globes. The actress and performer describes during this conversation, her very personal identification with the outcast designated circus freak she plays on screen, Lettie Lutz - actually based on a real woman back then, Annie Jones. And Settle's own lifelong struggle and challenges in the white male dominated entertainment world as a woman of color, descended from the Maori native people of New Zealand - and with body image issues as well.
** "Writing, a cactus embedded in the flesh - the more one tries to remove it, the deeper it gets, the act of writing gives birth to the soul through the body."
Alexis Excursion Through The Arts: Great Adaptations - Screenwriting And Global Storytelling. Cal. State Professor Alexis Krasilovsky's exploration of the genesis of ideas and stories from around the world that have influenced film and television.
Arts Express: Dare To Be Different Radio