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Fresh Air from WHYY   Interviews: Will Ferrell, Hearing Voices in ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ Comedian and actor Will Ferrell talks about his new film Stranger Than Fiction. Ferrell plays an accountant who finds that his life has a voiceover that only he can hear. It turns out he’s the subject of a novel, and that the writer plans to kill him. Ferrell became famous as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2002, and has gone on to star in movies such as Old School, Elf and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby On Television By […]

Analyzing Chalabi’s Place in Iraq After ‘Plan A’   Fresh Air from WHYY, November 7, 2006 — In the cover story of this week’s New York Times Magazine Dexter Filkins (pictured) writes about the predicament of Ahmad Chalabi: “Once Iraq’s anointed leader — anointed by the Americans — Chalabi, at age 62, is without a job, spurned by the very colleagues whose ascension he engineered.” The title of the piece is “Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi.” ‘The New York Times Magazine’ The DVD Room By John Powers One DVD Collection, 50 Movies Film critic John Powers reviews a new […]

Phawker luvs us some Harry Shearer and thank gawd almighty he’s on Fresh Air today: Comedian Harry Shearer has a new book called Not Enough Indians, a novel about Native Americans and gambling. He also has a role in the new film For Your Consideration, directed by Christopher Guest. Shearer is a voice actor on The Simpsons, playing the roles of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner and many more characters. Shearer is also the host of the weekly public radio series Le Show. Fresh Air: The Trouble With Harry Harry Shearer: Don’t Get Up Nige, You’ve Got […]

Fresh Air from WHYY, October 25, 2005 — From 1950 to 1956, the team of Martin and Lewis were the No. 1 box-office earners and America’s favorite entertainers. A new memoir from Jerry Lewis details how a beloved 10-year partnership was destroyed. Dean and Me: A Love Story details life behind the scenes of the 16 films and numerous television and club shows featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The book, which Lewis wrote with James Kaplan, chronicles the tumultuous relationship between two giants of American entertainment. Their success brought money, fame — and a host of new troubles, from […]

I guess the one big difference between US and THEM is that THEY put as much effort into disenfranchising voters (READ BLACK PEOPLE) and literally sabotaging democracy as they do turning out the freak scene that is THE BASE. Curious how they never get blamed for the the skidmarked pair of Karl Rove’s tighty-whiteys (PICTURED, below) they pull over the electorate’s eyes every election. Who’s fault is that, hmm? (READ SERVILE PRESS) And if we’re gonna rerun Bush Vs. Kerry, let’s go all the way and open up the still-wiggling can of worms that is Ohio 2004. Ten soldiers and […]

Today on Fresh Air: Entertainment expert Neal Gabler‘s new book is Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination. Gabler was given complete access to the Disney archives to write a biography that begins when Disney was just a glimmer of an idea and ends at the entrance to the Walt Disney mausoleum. Gabler is also the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, and Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity. Gabler is a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment and Society in the Annenberg School for Communications at […]

  Fresh Air has on Outkast’s Andre 3000. It’s always fun to hear Terry talk about the hippity-hop withrappers. It’s kinda like hearing virgins talk about sex with a hooker. Anyway, Andre’s comin’ on to plug his new Cartoon Network show, Class of 3000, but we wonder if they’re gonna touch on this, courtesy of Drowned In Sound: Andre 3000 has angered anti-gun campaigners in the US by claiming he’d like to buy his nine-year-old son a weapon. The rapper/actor is quoted as saying: “I would want my son to carry a gun when he gets older. It’s just something […]

We are SO psyched about today’s Fresh Air. It’s one of our very favorite interviews in the entire recorded history of Q&A: Ray Manzarek, keyboard player for the Doors and producer of X. If you don’t already own it, get thee a copy of X’s More Fun In The New World directly. The time to hesitate is thru. No time to wallow in the mire. Sorry. So just to set up this Ray interview, he sits at the piano, tinkling out memories of the Dionysian/Apollonian dialectic thru the prism of peace, pot and microdot. And at least four or five […]

Welcome to the second installment of our Grumpy Old Men series, wherein we learn from our elders and soak up their salty yarns like Bounty Quicker Picker-Upper. Yesterday we had Robert Christgau, today Francis Davis. Tomorrow? The Pope. What’s that you say? You never heard of Francis Davis. Oh buddy, it’s good thing you found us! Check out his CV: He has written about music, film, and other aspects of popular culture for The Atlantic since 1984 and was appointed lead jazz critic for the Voice in 2004. He was jazz critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1982 to 1996, […]

The second installment of our Grumpy Old Men series, wherein we learn from our elders. Yesterday we had Robert Christgau, today Francis Davis. Tomorrow? The Pope. What’s that you say? You never heard of Francis Davis. Oh Buddy, it’s good thing you found us! Check out his CV: He has written about music, film, and other aspects of popular culture for The Atlantic since 1984 and was appointed lead jazz critic for the Voice in 2004. He was jazz critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1982 to 1996, jazz editor of Musician from 1982 to 1985, and a staff writer […]