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Black and Red
The movie, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" got drubbed by the critics, who then got drubbed by the fans of the film in turn. Guest host Marty Goldensohn will speak with a Boston film critic on the backlash over the hit movie's bad reviews. Also: Bernard Henri-Levy, a modern-day Tocqueville and William Grimes offers his "taxonomy" of memoirs.
Latin Mass
Tim Padgett,
Miami bureau chief for Time Magazine,
» Time Magazine
and
Thomas Quigley,
Policy Advisor for Latin American and Caribbean Affairs for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops,
- on the Catholic Church in Latin America and the possibility of a Pope from the region
» US Council of Catholic Bishops
Black and Red
Wesley Morris,
Film Critic for the Boston Globe,
- on his negative review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and the backlash he received for it
Enough About You
William Grimes,
Book critic for the New York Times and author, most recently of
Eating Your Words: 2000 Words to Tease Your Taste Buds,
(Oxford University Press, 2004),
- describes his taxonomy of memoirs
» New York Times
A Different Shade of Red White & Blue
Bernard-Henri Levy, writer, philosopher, author, War, Evil and the End of History (Melville House, 2004)
- with an outsiders view of American society 200 years after Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey
» Excerpt of the article in the Atlantic Monthly
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