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Mel Brooks at the WNYC studiosFrom Brooks to Brooklyn
The one and only Mel Brooks discusses the play Squeeze Box (produced by his wife Anne Bancroft), and life since The Producers”. We’ll talk to Utah State archaeologist Kevin Jones and David Hurst Thomas, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, about the significance of the Fremont ruins at Range Creek in Utah. Kept under wraps on land owned by a 74-year-old cowboy, the ruins—which researchers are saying are some of the most important archeological remains in the country—were recently sold to the federal government. Then editor and contributor Tim McLoughlin and contributors Kenji Jasper and Ellen Miller join us to discuss the short story collection Brooklyn Noir. Finally, sports writer Alan Schwarz offers insight on the allure of baseball statistics in his new book The Numbers Game.
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks on Squeeze Box, written and performed by Anne Randolph, and produced by Mr. Brooks’s wife, Anne Bancroft. And he reflects on life after The Producers.
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Music: Soundtrack to The Producers, music by John Morris: “Background Music—Bar Scene” / “The Producers”
Jump Start and Jazz, Wynton Marsalis: “Ragtime”
Kevin Jones, David Hurst Thomas, and Dr. Rosita Worl
Archaeologist Kevin Jones, American Museum of Natural History curator David Hurst Thomas, and Dr. Rosita Worl, chair of the Remains Review Committee of NAGPRA on the Native American archaeological ruins in Range Creek, Utah.
Music:Helium, Tin Hat Trio: “A Life in East Poultney” / “Sand Dog Blues”
Tim McLoughlin, Kenji Jasper, and Ellen Miller
Tim McLoughlin, Kenji Jasper, and Ellen Miller share stories from the new Brooklyn Noir collection.
Authors from the Brooklyn Noir collection will be reading on:
Thursday, August 26th at 7pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Tuesday, September 7th at 6pm
Crown Heights
Brooklyn Public Library
560 New York Ave. (at Maple St.)
Wednesday, September 8th at 7pm
Prospect Park / Prospect Heights
Central Brooklyn Library
Grand Army Plaza
» More on the book
Music:Jazz in Film, Terence Blanchard: “Clockers” / “Degas’ Racing World”
Alan Schwarz
Alan Schwarz on his book The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics.
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Music:“Eple” by Royksopp
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Bill Richardson on Diplomacy
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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.
Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show
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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.
Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System
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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.
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.
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