Quote of the day:

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
—Will Rogers

I was tentatively planning to write a post about the first three of these, but I have so many irons in the fire, so many posts in the queue, that I decided to throw these all together.

First up is Ethan Hawke’s appearance on Fresh Air being interviewed by Terry Gross about his portrayal of lyricist Lorenz Hart in the movie Blue Moon, as well as other Richard Linklater movies and the TV show The Lowdown.

Ethan Hawke On The Role That Pushed Him To His Limit

 

Next,  the Bowery Boys examine the life of Amelia Earhart. I confess I knew next to nothing about her other than that she disappeared in the Pacific Ocean back in the 1930s and has never been heard from again. I didn’t even know the name of her husband.

They speak to Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Aviator and the Showman, and I was surprised to learn that Earhart may not have been as good an aviator as she led the world to believe. 

Definitely worth a listen. Shapiro finally reveals exactly what happened to Earhart!

The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart: Stories from the Golden Age of Aviation

 

Meanwhile, over on The Bulwark, Sonny Bunch is mad as hell and isn’t gonna take it anymore!

Oh, wait, that may well be true, but actually he’s speaking to Dave Itzkoff who wrote the book on Network in his history of the film, Mad As Hell.

A movie about corporations taking over news divisions and fearing problems from the FCC holding up mergers because they don’t like coverage? What does that have to do with anything happening today?

 

And finally Seth Andrews just discovered Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” and he devoted his most recent episode to reading it out loud for his audience. I’ve covered this story previously, but if you didn’t avail yourself of the opportunity to read it then or would simply like to hear it read out loud, here is your chance. If you’d like to follow along as Seth reads it, there is a pdf of “The Last Question”.

Seth gives a brief biography of Isaac Asimov, but of course, readers of this blog are well acquainted with him, so I skipped over that and queued the video to the point where he starts talking about the story, which was Asimov’s favorite story of all the ones he ever wrote. Many of his fans feel the same way.

 

 

 

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