On Demand
Survival Kit Archive
November 2002
Sarah Vowell
Sunday, November 17, 2002
Sarah Vowell seems like a perfect candidate for a retreat in the woods; she grew up in Montana and Oklahoma, she is part Cherokee, and she’s the daughter of a gunsmith. But she has spent her adult years in cities like San Francisco and Chicago, and she currently lives in New York City. She is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Life, and the author of the books Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. Let’s see what she’s got in her cultural survival kit for a trip back to the wilderness.
Gary Hart
Sunday, November 10, 2002
Gary Hart has put in his time in the corridors of power; he represented the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1987, and ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1984 and 88. After leaving elected office, he went into something of a spiritual retreat; he’s written a dozen books and earned a doctorate from Oxford University in that time. Recently he’s come back into the public eye, as co-chair of the Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, so it’s probably time for him to take another break. Let’s take a peek in his survival kit.
Jane Curtin
Saturday, November 02, 2002
Jane Curtin has spent so much of her career playing extraterrestrials (and the earthlings who love them), that I was tempted to ask her if she’d like to spend her retreat on another planet. Her portrayal of Prymaat, matriarch of the Conehead family, was one of the highlights of her 5 year stint on Saturday Night Live, and later became a feature film; after another 5 years as the very human divorcee Allie Lowell on Kate and Allie, she returned to alien society as Dr. Mary Albright, girlfriend of the “unusual” Dick Solomon, on Third Rock from the Sun. She even played an insect in the animated film Antz. Let’s find out what otherworldly items she’s got in her Survival Kit.
