Posted in Film, Literary, Music, New York City, Science, Technology, Theater, Video, tagged Cindy Mayweather, Connie Willis, David Goldberg, Janelle Monae, Mike Daisey on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’re counting down… Tonight, Studio 360 is live in the Greene Space, taping a show all about time travel. We have an all-star line-up of experts: astrophysicist David Goldberg, novelist Connie Willis, monogloguist Mike Daisey, and 28th century pop idol Janelle Monae (a.k.a. Cindy Mayweather).
<<<Live web stream HERE at 7:00pm EST>>>
The radio broadcast to follow [...]
Posted in Film, TV, tagged 1969, 1980, Carrie Fisher, Muppets, Star Wars on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hard to believe, but the Muppets turned 40 this month! And my favorite segments from “The Muppet Show” are still “Pigs in Space.”
In honor of Carrie Fisher’s appearance on our show last week, we bring you a clip from 1980. It’s the Muppets do “Star Wars” – and even though Fisher didn’t make [...]
Posted in Film, tagged "Broken Embraces", "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!", "Volver", "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", Pedro Almodóvar on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week Kurt talks with the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, who’s made a career of films about passionate, quirky women: “Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!,” “Volver,” among many others. Almodóvar’s new movie, “Broken Embraces,” opens this weekend. Like his other films, it draws from a rich, [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Theater, Visual Art, tagged Black 47, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, Gregory Burke, Iraq, Jess Klein, Matt Lowy, Suzanne Opton, Tom Long, Veteran's Day on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t know anyone who’s served in the military, Veteran’s Day is a holiday that’s easy to disregard; even if you have the day off, for the most part, business continues as usual. We decided instead to take a moment to look back at some of the stories we’ve aired on Studio 360 that [...]
Posted in Film, Literary, tagged Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Gene Vidal, Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re planning to see “Amelia,” the new Amelia Earhart biopic now in theaters, keep an eye out for recent “Studio 360″ guest Gore Vidal — or at least the actor playing him. The film takes place long before he became notorious for his envelope-pushing novels and on-air political smackdowns with William F. Buckley. [...]
Posted in Film, Los Angeles, TV, Theater, Uncategorized, tagged Janelle Monae, The Twilight Zone, Rod Sterling, The Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary, The Egyptian Theater on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Errant kid-carrying balloons, planes that overshoot the runway by 150 miles — these days, preternatural occurrences are the stuff of cable news. But 50 years ago, viewers tuned in to “The Twilight Zone” to get their weekly eeriness fix. Before the “The Twilight Saga,” and before “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” became the creepiest [...]
Posted in Film, Literary, Visual Art, tagged Bill Carman, Chris Houghton, Cory Godbey, Maurice Sendak, Terrible Yellow Eyes, Where The Wild Things Are on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow, the much-anticipated film, “Where the Wild Things Are” is coming to theaters. It’s based on the beloved children’s book by Maurice Sendak, whose fantastical illustrations have inspired innumerable artists.
One of those inspired artists is Cory Godbey. Godbey is an illustrator who started the fabulous blog Terrible Yellow Eyes, an homage to Sendak [...]
Posted in Film, Music, tagged Frances Ford Coppola, Reunion Tour, Rumblefish, Stewart Copeland, The Police on October 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This week in Studio 360, Kurt talked with drummer and composer Stewart Copeland. Copeland became famous in the early 80s as the drummer for the band, The Police. However, The Police were never, in Copeland’s own words, “a warm, cuddly band like U2.” The band broke up in 1984, but Copeland [...]
Posted in Film, Music, TV, tagged Donald Bistarkey Perrone, Marvin Hamlisch, Mike Douglas Show, The Informant, Tom Waits on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week in Studio 360, we heard from Marvin Hamlisch, the award-winning and always ebullient composer. Hamlisch has won nearly every major music award, including four Grammys, four Emmys, three Golden globes, a Tony, and a Pulitzer. Most recently, he composed the music for the new movie, The Informant!
But [...]
Posted in Film, tagged Amanda Seyfried, Diablo Cody, feminism, horror movie, Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, “Jennifer’s Body” opens in theaters. Written by Diablo Cody (who recently stopped by Studio 360), this new horror flick tells the story of Jennifer (Megan Fox), a popular high school girl possessed by a man-eating demon. Her best friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried), is the yin to Jennifer’s yang: [...]
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