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The Leonard Lopate Show / June 23, 2005

The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, June 23, 2005
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  • Joan Allen in "Yes"
    Joan Allen in "Yes" (Sony Picture Classics)

    Making Contact

    We’ll start off today’s show with a look at an ambitious new video project that helps friends and neighbors to reunite with one another in the aftermath of the Balkan wars. Then, Joan Allen tells us about her leading role in the new film “Yes.” She’s joined by director Sally Potter. Next, Doug Ramsey reflects on the public and private lives of saxophonist Paul Desmond. And George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the complicated and widespread conflicts in Sudan on our regular Underreported feature.

Videoletters

Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek, directors of the new “Videoletters” project, and Holly Cartner, executive director of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, tell us about using video and the Internet to reunite people torn apart by the Balkan wars.

Events:
Videoletters will be screening on:
Thursday, June 23rd at 2pm and 4:15pm
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, plaza level
(between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
» More info

Music: Soundtrack from Heat (Warner Bros.)
#1 “Heat” and #2 “Always Forever Now”

Yes

Joan Allen discusses her leading role as a scientist who has an affair with a Middle-Eastern man in the film "Yes." She is joined by writer/director Sally Potter.

» "Yes" website

Events:
Sally Potter and Joan Allen will be speaking and signing books on:
Thursday, June 23rd at 7pm
Barnes & Noble, Union Square
33 East 17th Street

Music: Soundtrack from Yes (Edge Music)
#1 “Paru River” and #5 “Norketsou Bar”

Take Five

Jazz critic Doug Ramsey shares his in-depth biography of saxophonist Paul Desmond: Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond.

Events:
Quartet Doloroso will be performing the music of the Paul Desmond Quartet on:
Sunday June 26th at 8pm
Grassroots Tavern
20 St. Marks Place (between 2nd & 3rd Ave)

Music: The Dave Brubeck Quartet 25th Anniversary Reunion (A&M)
#5 “Take Five”

Conflict in Sudan

Darfur has been cited as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, but Sudan’s problems are even more widespread. In our weekly Underreported feature, George Rupp tells us about other conflicts in the region that we're not hearing much about.

» Underreported series

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

The Leonard Lopate Show

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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To find out more about Vice President-Elect Joe Biden’s personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?