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WNYC's Coverage of the Republican National Convention
Live performances in Soundcheck's studios
Studio 360: Patti LuPone on playing Mama Rose
Selected Shorts featuring "The Trouble of Marcie Flint," by John Cheever
Radio Rookies: Brooklyn Broadcast Workshop
On the Media: Surviving Convention Coverage
Street Shots Challenge
Survival Kit Archive
March 2003
Zoe Caldwell
Monday, March 31, 2003
Zoe Caldwell has always gone wherever the acting jobs took her; from her native Australia to Stratford-upon-Avon in Britain, then on to Canada, and eventually New York. She's won four Tony Awards, has played opposite such legends as Laurence Olivier, Dame Edith Evans and Paul Robeson, and her portrayals of Cleopatra and Maria Callas (among others) have been declared the definitive ones. She's always preferred to perform before a live audience, and although we can only promise her an audience of moose and wolves on her retreat, she has graciously agreed to give us her survival kit list for a journey to the wilds.
Edna O'Brien
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Edna O’Brien grew up in a rural village in the west of Ireland, but she's said that she had to leave home in order to write, and she has lived most of her life in London. Her fiction vividly depicts the dark side of her “beautiful tragic country”; in novels like The House of Splendid Isolation, Down by the River, Wild Decembers, and In the Forest, seemingly peaceful, bucolic landscapes harbor IRA terrorists, child molesters, and homicidal maniacs. So let’s see what she feels she would need to keep her safe and sane in the wilderness.
Malcolm McDowell
Sunday, March 09, 2003
Malcolm McDowell made his name in British films like "If...", "A Clockwork Orange" and "O Lucky Man", before leaving his native England and settling in California, where he’s played the Roman Emperor Caligula, the science-fiction writer H.G. Wells in the time-travel fantasy "Time After Time," and the man who killed Captain Kirk in "Star Trek: Generations," not to mention the sinister Mr. Roarke in TV’s Fantasy Island. Well, let’s find out what he’s putting in his survival kit for an imaginary journey to a mystery location.
Rosie Perez
Sunday, March 02, 2003
Rosie Perez seems like the quintessential city-girl: streetwise, fast-talking, and quick on her feet. At least that’s what she’s like in her roles in films like Do the Right Thing, White Men Can’t Jump, The 24-Hour Woman, Riding in Cars With Boys, and It Could Happen to You. And she did grow up in Brooklyn. But she’s also played more contemplative characters, like the grieving mother in Fearless, which won her an Oscar nomination. Maybe we can find out what the real Rosie Perez is like, by looking into her Survival Kit.