Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Polyglots








Monday, March 30, 2009

60 Minutes, 03.22.09

"It's been an eventful 2 months in office for Pres. Barack Obama and Steve Kroft has the behind-the-scenes interview; And, Morley Safer explores the bond formed between a musical virtuoso and the reporter who discovered him."

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Borat








Thursday, March 26, 2009

60 Minutes, 03.15.09

"With the weight of the U.S. economy falling largely on his shoulders, Scott Pelley speaks with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Lesley Stahl profiles Alice Waters and her "slow food" revolution; And, Andy Rooney on the era of newspapers."

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Great Day In Hip Hop - Nelson George

"A Great Day In Hip Hop. MCs gather to do a hip hop version of jazz's 'Great Day in Harlem' photo for XXL magazine. Gordon Parks Jr. took the photo. Directed by Nelson George cinema verite style. Rakim, Mos Def, Fat Joe are among the MCs.





Sunday, March 22, 2009

Clarke Miller Wooten SMV Live Studio Session+talk

"SMV in a live studio session.This was recorded even before they started touring. This features different songs and some interview parts.
Only basses, no drums or keyboards."



Saturday, March 21, 2009

60 Minutes, 03.08.09

"Scott Pelley and 60 Minutes were given access as the FDIC seized a failed Chicago bank; Lesley Stahl examines flaws in eyewitness testimony, now at the heart of exonerations of those falsely convicted; And; Andy Rooney wonders where the heroes are."

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Talks Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

"In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves."

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Talks Mike Rowe: Celebrating work -- all kinds of work

"Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it’s been unjustifiably degraded in society today."

Thursday, March 12, 2009

60 Minutes, 03.01.09

"Steve Kroft reports on the whistleblower who warned the SEC about Bernard Madoff; CNN's Anderson Cooper investigates the ongoing drug war in Mexico; Morley Safer profiles La. Gov Bobby Jindal; And, Andy Rooney on the months of the year."

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

David Foster Interviews

"Musical maestro and award-winning producer David Foster defends his music and choices, and admits a TV show killed his marriage."


Monday, March 9, 2009

60 Minutes, 02.22.09

"Lesley Stahl explores the debate over lowering the drinking age; Lara Logan profiles CBS' Richard Butler, who was captured last year by Iraqi insurgents; Bob Simon uncovers a Nazi mascot's secrets; And, Andy Rooney searches for a great president."

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Sunday, March 1, 2009

American Boy (1978)

"This is a fantastic and very rare documentary film by Martin Scorsese, and one of the greatest interviews ever recorded. The subject is his friend Steven Prince, best known for his role as "Easy Andy", the traveling gun salesman in "Taxi Driver". Prince is a manic raconteur, telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker. This story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in "Pulp Fiction" (which he then claimed as a completely original idea, as usual with him). Prince also tells a haunting story about working at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, and being robbed by a large drug crazed man, who Prince ends up shooting several times (this story was re-created in Richard Linklater's animated "Waking Life", this time with Prince doing the re-creation). The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured during the film's opening credits."