On Demand
Survival Kit Archive
October 2003
Patti Lupone
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Patti Lupone achieved stardom on the Broadway stage with the title role in the musical Evita, to the point where she’s complained that she’s been typecast as a “blond fascist dictator.” But she’s also played Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Maria Callas in Master Class, won an Olivier award (the British equivalent of the Tony) for her role in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Miserables, had audiences rolling in the aisles in Noises Off, and has performed her own cabaret revue at Linclon Center. Let’s see what this versatile actress and singer has in her cultural survival kit.
Charles Osgood
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Charles Osgood has brought a unique style to broadcast journalism. On the radio with The Osgood File and on TV with CBS News Sunday Morning, he covers the kind of off-beat stories that are often overlooked in the headlines, delivering the news with humour and eloquence, and even in verse. He’s the author of several books, including Funny Letters from Famous People, and See You On the Radio. Let’s ask this extraordinary newsman what he would pack in his cultural survival kit.
Terence Blanchard
Sunday, October 12, 2003
Terence Blanchard is a busy man; he’s juggling three separate musical careers. Not only is he a respected trumpeter, band leader, and recording artist, but also a successful composer of film scores, primarily for Spike Lee, and he’s also making sure the traditions of jazz are passed on to the younger generation, as the artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at USC. I get the feeling we might have to build a jazz club out in the woods to lure him to our retreat; let’s see what he’s packed in his survival kit for the trip.
Mick Foley
Sunday, October 05, 2003
In his 16 years as a professional wrestler, Mick Foley suffered numerous broken bones, eight concussions, hundreds of stitches; he had chairs broken over his head, and lost an ear and several teeth. So I’m not sure he’ll consider spending time in a remote location a hardship. In fact, for the last few years he’s traded in his spandex jumpsuit, leather mask and alter-egos Cactus Jack, Dude Love and Mankind for the writer’s life, producing two memoirs, Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good, two children’s books and a novel. Let’s find out what this wrestler turned writer would pack in his cultural survival kit.
