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Friday, February 09, 2007

Getting fired by Woody Allen turned out to be a creative boost for actress Annabelle Gurwitch. She wrote a book and created a documentary from her interviews with people who’ve been fired, from fellow actors to laid-off GM workers. Plus, New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Goldberg rounds up the week’s news; and an update on global climate change.

Friday Morning Politics

Jeffrey Goldberg, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide (Knopf, 2006), rounds up the week's news.

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Facing Change

Andrew Revkin, New York Times environment reporter and author, The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (Kingfisher, 2006) and Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for the New Yorker and author, Field Notes From a Catastrophe : Man, Nature and Climate ...

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You're Outta Here!

Annabelle Gurwitch, author of the book Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed (Touchstone) and producer of the film Fired talks about getting fired.

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Listener Mail: February 9, 2007

On today's show, Brian spoke to Annabelle Gurwitch, producer of Fired!. He took listeners' calls about their traumatic tales of getting canned. Here are some responses:

In the 80's, I was fired from a big hair new wave band. They told me my bass playing was too funky ...

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