Arts Express

** Vanilla Fudge Musician, Mark Stein, on his creative life and the key role of underground progressive FM radio like Pacifica stations ** Amiri Baraka Jr. talks Why Is We Americans, including both the personal and political inspiration derived from his father Amiri Baraka

* Gil Bellows Talks Women Of The Movement, a dramatic series about events surrounding the murder of Emmett Till * "How to Tell Your Story in a Single Sentence"--with connections to Sidney Poitier and Bogart * Poet Tayo Aluko takes on Tony Blair

** Dee Wallace, actress in hundreds of movies including E.T. and the occult feature The Nest, shares how the pandemic may change movies ** The Great Postal Heist: Director Jay Galione unravels the USPS labor battleground. **  Radio Drama Corner: "I don't know where he came from - nor who or what he was..."

** The Last Picture Show, The Last Conversation: Peter Bogdanovich in a last conversation about The Last Picture Show ** Apparently There Were Complaints: Sharon Gless best known as Christine Cagney, that other half of the popular eighties television show Cagney And Lacey, checks in with her new autobiography ** Reading of "Women of the Soajo," from Border Crossings, tales of the Portuguese Commun...

** Four Hours At The Capitol: A Conversation With UK Director Jamie Roberts.  ** Broe On The Global Television Beat: AE Correspondent Dennis Broe's Deep Dive Year End Episode 2: The best and worst of what to watch online - or not. ** Plus...Radio Drama: Chekhov, Michael Redgrave...Listener Music. 

** Actress Alana Haim talks Licorice Pizza ** Critic Armond White on the AE Hot Seat discusses Spielberg, including West Side Story ** Marionette Land: director Alex Monelli's new doc about an actor /puppeteer trying to make it through COVID days. Photo: Raph_PH - HaimFoxPomona CC 2.0

** Rosanna Arquette talks Love Is Love Is Love ** Rebel Hearts: Defiant LA nuns of the 1960s fight back in Pedro Kos's new film doc **The Bro Binge Report: Year wrap-up, what to watch online  

** It's A Wonderful Life: A Conversation With Karolyn Grimes, alias Zuzu Bailey ** The Warehouse: Robots And Workers At Amazon ** Frankie Faison Talks The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain

** National Champions:  Alexander Ludwig on his new film about a striking college football team ** The Unforgivable: Nina Fingscheidt directs Sandra Bullock as a convicted cop killer and pariah  ** The Furnished Room: a performance of O Henry's short story

** Silent Night: A Conversation With Lucy Punch.  The comic actress in a satirical doomsday Christmas Eve gathering  ** Dennis Broe reads from his latest noir novel,  A Hello To Arms ** The 94th International Pun Competition, on location in Frostbite Falls     photo credit: David Shankbone

** Stacy Keach Talks Vienna, John Huston, and Surviving A British Prison ** Night Raiders: A Conversation With First Nation Cree Director Danis Goulet ** Lady Buds: Chris Russo's documentary of six women cannabis growers "coming out of the shadows"

** Melissa Leo Talks Untitled Katie Holmes Project, Ida Red ** Dennis Quaid On Music, Movies, And Portraying Across The Political Divide Both Clinton And Reagan On Screen ** Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

** Actor Stephen Root Talks The Tragedy of Macbeth and Poupelle of Chimney Town ** Arts Express Hot Seat:  Reporter Chris Davenport dodges questions on Musk and Bezos ** Gold, Oil and Avocados: Andy Robinson explains Latin America's "pink tide" in 16 commodities

** John Hawkes Talks Salaryman, Winter's Bone, Striketober And Beyond ** Why TV Is Failing Americans: Bro On The Redacted Tonight Beat ** The Real Chaplin:  a new documentary on the enigma of Charlie Chaplin. 

*Allegra Pacheco Talks Salaryman: investigating exploited Tokyo office workers  *The B'way Reopening - Aladdin 'Genie' Michael James Scott and 'Lioness Nala' Adrienne Walker of The Lion King *Arts Express Playhouse - 2121: A Tale Of The Near Future

** Rock Legend Rick Wakeman Talks Yes, Salvador Dali, Making Music With David Bowie ** Arts Express Playhouse: "I Digress" - Halloween, Houdini, Identity And Capitalism ** Bro: From Black Radicalism To The Crown Meets Star Trek.

** Barbara Hershey Talks The Manor, Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese, Economic Crisis Cinema ** Apache Junction, Battle In Seattle: A Conversation With Actor/Director Stuart Townsend ** The Third Floor, stories of prisoners under fascism by Manuel Tiago

** Chelsea Handler Talks Dinner With The Devil, Pandemic, And Surviving Cancel Culture ** Conversation With Actor Tom Skerritt: East Of The Mountains, MASH. Memories Of Robert Altman ** The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

** Tim Blake Nelson Talks Old Henry, Bukowski, Tulsa Race Massacre ** Mayday: A Conversation With Grace Van Patten ** Deciphering David Hare: Hare's memoir, Acting Up. ** Bro On The Global Television Beat - A Battle For The Soul Of Popular Media.

*D.B. Sweeney Talks Manson Brothers, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Coppola, Dennis Hopper, Economic Crisis Cinema *Boris Karloff Unmasked: Revelations about the actor of color, and his embrace of Frankenstein reflecting his alienation in racist England

** Paul Anka Talks Music, Mirrors, Memories Of Creating Songs With Michael Jackson ** Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 - A conversation with two Muslim American comics and the filmmaker, about when it's okay - if ever to laugh ** Bro on the enigma of Croatia

** Siobhan Fallon Hogan Talks Rushed, SNL, The Golden Girls, Dogville - And The Tough Women She Tends To Play ** Arts Express Playhouse: Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist In Performance ** Bro on the Series Mania TV Festival in Lille

**Director Coke Daniels on the Karen racist phenomenon **Savior For Sale: Filmmaker Antoine Vitkine on Da Vinci's Last Masterpiece--maybe! **Dennis Bro on the crime novel and the pandemic

*Bob Goes To Jail: A Conversation with Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon kin, Rob Sedgwick, On Surviving His DEA Drug Bust *Arts Express Playhouse: Sarah Jewett's "A White Heron" in which a young girl has to make a life-changing decision

** The Civil Rights Movement, Fidel, Che: A Conversation With UK Actress Julia Ormond  **The Pursuit Of Love: British Actress Emily Beecham Phones In From Berlin ** Moth storyteller David Lepelstat tells of "Sneaking Out"