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(Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)Looking Below the Surface
Today we'll investigate Chinese investment in Africa with journalist Serge Michel and photographer Paolo Woods. Then, Mary Jo Buttafuoco on her life after she was shot by Amy Fisher. And Tony- and Oscar-winning actor, and sometime photographer, Joel Grey on taking pictures with his phone. Plus, filmmaker Louis Psihoyos and activist Ric O'Barry talk about a disturbing new film called "The Cove."
China Safari
Journalist Serge Michel and award-wining photojournalist Paolo Woods traveled from Beijing to Khartoum and from Algiers to Brazzaville investigating China's economic ventures in Africa. The book China Safari tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa, and how it will transform geopolitics.
Getting It Through My Thick Skull
Mary Jo Buttafuoco's quiet life as a suburban wife and mother on Long Island ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her front porch by her husband's teenage lover, Amy Fisher. The media circus that erupted following the "Long Island Lolita" saga has not yet died down. Mary Jo stood by her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, while he and Amy Fisher provided years of tabloid headlines. In Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know, Mary Jo Buttafuoco explains why she stayed with her husband for so long, and what prompted her to eventually leave him and start a new life.
Images from My Phone
Tony- and Academy Award-winning actor Joel Grey is best known for his extensive work in the theater and on film. But on an out-of-town trip in 2007, he found himself in a small museum filled with bizarre and eminently photographable objects without his trusty Nikon Nikkormat by his side. So he reached for his cell phone. His book 1.3: Images from My Phone, is a collection of pictures he took over eight months, slices cut from diverse visual worlds: street art and still life, advertising and architecture, shadows and reflections, natural beauty and urban grit.
The Cove
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and Ric O'Barry, a longtime activist who was a dolphin trainer for the1960s TV show "Flipper" discuss the documentary "The Cove." In a secluded lagoon in the small Japanese town of Taiji, thousands of dolphins are brutally slaughtered every year, and the film follows a group of activists who try to infiltrate the cove and to actually film what goes on there. "The Cove" opens in New York Friday, July 31st, at the Beekman Theater and the Angelika Film Center.
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