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Dickens Revisited
Leonard starts off the show with open phones. Call in and share your thoughts on the pivotal events of 2003. Then director Robert Altman talks about his latest film, ”The Company.” Neve Cambell stars as a dancer, and she’s here for the discussion too. Then Michael Patrick Hearn explains that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in response to England’s Industrial Revolution. And a discussion with novelist Louis Bayard, who’s written Mr. Timothy, a sequel of sorts to Dickens’s Christmas classic.
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Leonard takes listeners’ calls. Call 212-267-WNYC to talk about your hopes and predictions for 2004 and beyond.
Robert Altman and Neve Campbell
”The Company” is directed by Robert Altman. Neve Campbell stars as a gifted dancer working her way through the ranks of her dance company. (Neve studied with The National Ballet of Canada before becoming an actress, and she does all her own dancing in the film.)
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"The Company" soundtrack (Sony Classical, SK93092),
Michael Patrick Hearn
Michael Patrick Hearn has written the introduction to The Annotated Christmas Carol. According to Hearn, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and Puritanism, which he thought were undermining traditional English values and customs.
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Victorian Musical Boxes" -- Saydisc (SDL 408)
Louis Bayard
Mr. Timothy is Louis Bayard’s latest novel. The “Timothy” of the title refers to a more grown-up version of Dickens’s Tiny Tim.
Music
A Toolbox Christmas -- Gourd Music (GM124) cut #12
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
