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"Susan Lori parks, for Pulitzer Prize winning play top dog underdog, has just been revived on Broadway. And she spoke with Vincent Cunningham as part of The New Yorker festival this month. This is The New Yorker radio hour, with more to come. The New Yorker radio hour is supported by indeed, with instant match, a hiring tool instantly delivering to businesses a list of candidates whose resumes on indeed match the job description. Learn more and indeed dot com slash credit. And by safa, offering mattresses made with eco friendly materials and handcrafted construction, delivered with set up an old mattress removal included, more at SAA TVA dot com. Support for WAB comes from Rosie's roofing as seasons bring extreme temperature change your roof's integrity as impacted. You can be proactive and protect your home with a roof check from Rosie's committed to keeping you cozy and dry. Rosie's roofing dot com. And from Arden's garden, an Atlanta based manufacturer of fresh juices, smoothies and healthy foods. You can join us in our efforts to promote good health for all, more information is available at Arden's garden dot com. Hey, Atlanta, it's Alonso vote. When you tune in to wait wait on WAB, have you ever wondered what it would be like without Peter sagal? Well, you don't have
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"Because I had a notion last night in the beginning was the group. Because the groove, I think, comes before the word. I write to the group, just to the group, and I can tap it out. It's all lyrics to me. Susan Lori parks talks with staff writer Vincent Cunningham. And with the midterms around the corner, we'll hear from a computer scientist who's one of the leading experts on the safety of our elections. That's all I had today on The New Yorker radio hour, right after the news. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder, the United Nations says it's gravely concerned about Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, about a third of Ukraine's energy facilities have been hit in the past week as in purist Michel kaliman reports. A top UN official rosemary decarlo tells the Security Council that Russia's latest attacks threaten to expose millions of civilians to extreme hardship this winter. To be clear, under international humanitarian law, attacks targeting civilians in civilian infrastructure are prohibited. The U.S. France and the UK are all calling on the UN to investigate Russia's use of Iranian drones in these attacks in violation of UN sanctions, Russia warns it will reassess its relations with the UN if it tries to investigate, and it accuses the UN of being one sided. Michelle Kellerman and PR news the State Department. Air raid sirens have been heard in Ukraine today as Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure several regions reporting strikes this morning. As Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky accuses Russia, of preparing to blow up a hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine. In the UK, speculation growing over whether former prime minister Boris Johnson will enter the race to replace Liz truss, who announced her resignation this week, Johnson just stepped down in September, and still faces an investigation by parliamentary committee over claims that he lied about lockdown parties. Dominik grabbed served as deputy prime minister under Johnson, but he tells the BBC that does not mean he's backing Johnson. I don't see how you can reconcile returning to frontline politics with that committee looming and hanging over an oral test me being heard. If someone by the way on the other side thinks I've got this wrong or can explain it, they need to stand up and explain how you could reconcile those two things. We can not go backwards. We can not have another episode of the Groundhog Day of the soap opera of party gate. We must get the country in the government moving forward. The U.S. is seeing an unusual rise in RSV, a virus and infants that can result in hospitalizations, Blake farmer of member station in Nashville reports of south seeing especially high numbers. RSV is usually pretty seasonal, but pandemic precautions through that predictability off, leading to summer surges in parts of the country the last two years, and now the usual winter surge for RSV seems to already be raging. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows high levels from Dallas to Atlanta to Philadelphia. In the Washington D.C. area, children's hospitals are nearing capacity. The symptoms are usually fairly mild, similar to a cold, requiring a week or two for infants to recover, but those who develop pneumonia are more likely to require hospitalization. There is no vaccine for RSV, though the CDC has just reviewed an antibody treatment for potential use, for impairing its own Blake farmer in Nashville. This is NPR news. Anti government demonstrations in Iran are ongoing following last month's death of a young woman in the custody of the country's morality police. State TV, showing fresh destruction, and the southeastern city of zahedan, tensions erupted yesterday there, stores were vandalized in ATMs were damaged, rights groups say dozens of people were killed in the city last month. A sheriff in eastern Oregon has arrested the leader of a U.S. forest service crew conducting a prescribed burn. Further igniting tensions, Oregon public broadcasting's Jonathan Levinson has more. The forest service employee was arrested for reckless burning after the prescribed burn he was overseeing in the malheur national forest, jumped a road and ignited an estimated 20 acres of private land in Oregon's grant county. Sheriff Todd McKinley said Rick snodgrass was released without bail, but declined to offer more details. A forest service spokesperson said only that it would be inappropriate to comment on a legal matter. Some Oregon sheriffs have sided with ranchers and taken an extremist position challenging the forest service in bureau of land management's rights to control national forests. Challenging those rights underpin the 2016 armed militant takeover of the malware national wildlife refuge. This week's extraordinary arrest potentially reignites those tensions. For NPR news, I'm Jonathan Levinson in Portland. Hurricane rosalyn is headed toward a potential landfall tomorrow morning along Mexico's Pacific Coast. The national hurricane center says Rosalind is now a major hurricane, with top winds of some 120 mph, forecasters are warning of landfall between the resorts of Puerto vallarta and mosotho. I'm Giles Snyder, this is NPR news. Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include the corporation for public broadcasting. A private corporation funded by the American people, and jarl and Pamela mon, thanking the people who make public radio great every day, and also those who listen. This is The New Yorker radio hour. A co production of WNYC studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to The New Yorker radio hour, I'm David remnick. For years
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"Supporters include the public theater and Susan Lori parks plays for the plague year. In March 2020, Susan Lori park set out to write a play a day and created a theatrical concert chronicling all we faced as a global community, more at public theater dot org, Alexa, Amazon's cloud based smart speaker, which allows listeners to stream WNYC live by asking Alexa to play WNYC or to become a member by asking Alexa to donate to WNYC. This is WNYC. 93.9 FM and a.m. 8 20. NPR news and the New York conversation. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. Russian drones have once again attacked Ukraine's capital, the BBC's Hugo bache says the first missile hit cube this morning about an hour before sunrise. Ten minutes later, another large blast was hurt, closer to the city center. The president's chief of staff Andre Mark said the capital had been attacked by so called kamikaze Jones, which would be supplied by Iran to Russia. This morning's events come a week after Russia launched missiles on cities across the country, including Kyiv, at least two people in Kyiv were killed by these latest Russian attacks. Iran says 8 inmates were killed in a weekend fire at Evan prison in the capital, dozens more were injured there. Early voting begins today in Georgia ahead of election day in November. Stephen Fowler, with Georgia public broadcasting, says the state's most watch races include ones for governor and U.S. Senate. Today begins three weeks of in person early voting when most of the votes in this midterm will likely be cast. There's a lot at stake here, like who will lead Georgia's government and possibly what party will control the U.S. Senate. But if no candidate clears a majority in these contests, they'll have to do it all again in a December runoff. The Senate race features democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock against Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the two faced off in their first debate late last week. This is NPR news. A suspect is under arrest and Stockton California where police have been searching for a serial killer. They believe 43 year old Wesley brownlee is the gunman who killed 6 men and wounded one woman. One of the 6 men was killed in Oakland, Stockton's police chief says brownlee was armed when he was arrested. Beginning today hearing aids can be sold over the counter and stores and pharmacies across the U.S., NPR's Joe Hernandez says the change was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Those with perceived mild or moderate hearing loss can now buy hearing aids in stores and online without a medical exam or a prescription thanks to the FDA rule change. The FDA finalized the change in August following legislation passed in 2017 requiring the agency to create a category of over the counter hearing aids, but the rule doesn't regulate some consumer concerns, like requiring return policies and experts recommend researching hearing aids before buying them. The change is expected to make hearing aids significantly cheaper for patients who could save hundreds or even several $1000 buying over the counter. The over the counter devices are not for children or people with severe hearing impairment. Joe Hernandez, NPR news. Wall Street futures are in positive territory this morning, Dow futures are up 275 points, S&P futures are up 39. I'm Dave Mattingly NPR news in Washington. On WNYC in New York at 5 33, good Monday morning on Mike will hill overcast in 58 on showers to today a high of 65. In the news in 18 year old far rockaway man is in charge in the shooting death of a 15 year old boy on Friday, police say the deadly shooting took place after an argument on a queen's bound a train, New York City transit authority president Richard Davy emphasizes that this was not a random act of violence. By all accounts, this was not
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"Well, because the ongoing mega drought in the southwest. Alex Hager with member station K UNC reports. Millions of Californians have already been using recycled wastewater for years. For things like watering lawns, taking showers, and yes, drinking. It comes from facilities like this one near LA, where a complicated setup of pipes and pumps is pulling water from the sewage treatment plant next door and making it ready to drink. Rhubarb Sony with the metropolitan water district of Southern California is showing me around. So now this water looks like what you expect water to look like it's really clean and pure. After this point. Water reuse can feel like an odd proposition, especially when you consider where it was used before. The water that's flown in here is coming from flush toilets and kitchen sinks and shower drains. Exactly. There are plans to expand this small demonstration plant to produce 300 times the water it makes now. That'll cost more than $3 billion, and more than a 100 million to operate each year. But the Colorado River is drying up. So water managers are scrambling to boost supplies. Sony says this is a way to help keep taps flowing for about 19 million people. Yeah, it's super exciting. It is going to make a substantial change. It is going to provide a new supply. And Southern California isn't going to foot the whole Bill. People further upstream are going to help with that. David Johnson is with the southern Nevada water authority, which serves the Las Vegas metro area. I think it's really a perfect solution for Southern California. And I think it's a perfect opportunity for us to be able to partner to and demonstrate that partnership in a tangible way. While this whole region needs to cut back on water use, negotiations between the states for how to do that have been unproductive. There's been lots of finger pointing and little compromise. So this collaborative energy stands out. The deal will work like this. Johnson's agency in Nevada is ready to put up $750 million to help pay for this recycling project in Southern California, a facility that their customers will never use. But when Los Angeles is flush with more potable water, it won't have to draw down Colorado River reservoirs, like Lake mead, and that conserved water will be freed up for all the people in Las Vegas. We would be able to actually not have to build any of that transportation infrastructure to be able to get water from one location to another. It just makes a lot of sense to us. But that trade isn't cheap. Recycled water costs about twice as much as current supplies. Felicia Marcus says it's worth it. There's not a lot of a car other than it's expensive, but it's a smart investment. I mean, my view is that it'll be priceless in the future. Marcus has chaired California's water control board and the Los Angeles department of public works. She says it makes sense that agencies in Nevada and Arizona are already putting millions towards securing a supply for the future. The reality we're in now won't exist under climate change. So we have to look at what's the economic cost of not having that water. The southwest is dry and climate scientists say it's getting drier. Temperatures are rising, snow is melting faster and flows in western rivers and streams are projected to drop another ten to 20% by the middle of the century. Water recycling won't solve the region's inability to meet demand, but it'll be one way to help keep water flowing as there's less and less to go around. For NPR news, I'm Alex Hager in Carson, California. This is morning edition from NPR news Amy Martinez. And I'm Rachel Martin. Marketplace morning reporters coming up next and then in ten minutes at 9 o'clock it's the BBC NewsHour on 93.9 FM. Let's check out with London to see what they're working on. London, good morning. Good morning, WNYC. I'm Rosie iqbal on today's NewsHour last day of voting is underway in self styled referendums in four Ukrainian regions controlled holy or in part by Russian forces, and the Philippines says it will stop the operation of offshore gambling firms and deport around 40,000 Chinese nationals, BBC NewsHour, coming up at 9 or 93.9 FM, WNYC. 62 and signing out there now mostly sunny and 74 for a high on this Tuesday, September 27th, and then tomorrow mostly sunny and 70, Saturday and Friday we dip into the upper 6th stage for Hans. With sunshine, it's 8 51. Support for WNYC comes from, Susan Lori parks top dog underdog on Broadway, starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul mateen the second, directed by Kenny
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"Yet again, he has done it. Elliott kipchoge is as everybody calls them the goat. Elite writer Nicky Johnston watched the race and predicts kipchoge, the greatest of all time, will soon run a marathon in under two hours. In 2019, in fact, he did break the two hour mark, but it wasn't official because he ran it under laboratory conditions. Johnston says there's no runner like kipchoge. He just looks so relaxed and say it looks fluid. And it's incredible when he gets to the finish. He doesn't collapse or go on his knees or he's not exhausted. I would collapse. I would be like, I would be done. Not kipchoge. He crossed the finish line and he had time to hug his trainer, his friends, pose for photos, celebrate with fans and wave the Kenyan flag as everyone waited and waited for the second place runner to finish four minutes and 49 seconds later. Kipchoge, who's known for his humility and being a man of few words, had this to say after the race to an interviewer. How does it feel to have broken the record again? I feel good. Keep joking, elaborated a little when he spoke about yesterday's conditions. The Berlin marathon is one of the world's flattest and fastest courses, and yesterday's weather dry, cool, and 59° was ideal for a world record. It can give anybody a colleague a chance to push the limits. Always don't believe in limits. I don't know at the limits are. And not knowing where the limits are, could very well help the 37 year old kipchoge someday break yesterday's record by one minute and ten seconds. All that he'll need to run a marathon in under two hours. Rob Schmidt, NPR news, Berlin. WNYC is supported by Susan Lori parks top dog underdog on Broadway, starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul mateen the second directed by Kenny Leon, performances begin September
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"Critic, Eric diggins Eric banks. Thank you. This is morning edition from NPR news. I'm a Martinez. And I'm Steve inskeep. And I'm Michael hill later on morning edition Russia says it will mobilize 300,000 additional troops to fighting Ukraine, but that may not pose an immediate problem for Ukraine. It's going to take 6 to 8 months maybe for those troops to even come online. That's a lot of time for the Ukraine is to take additional territory, Russia though also was making other threats more on that in about 15 minutes. 72 and it has begun to rain more showers and possibly a thunderstorm later, gusty tents falling to 65 through the day, fall begins tonight, it will turn chilly. WNYC is supported by Susan Lori parks top dog underdog on Broadway, starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul mateen the second, directed by Kenny Leon, performances begin September 27th at the John golden theater. Tickets at top dog underdog dot com Good morning, WNYC. I'm James Menendez. Today on NewsHour, Ukrainians are celebrating the largest prisoner exchange with Russia since the war began. We'll examine who's been freed and how. Also, Iranians have taken to the streets for a 6th day to protest against the death of a young woman in police custody. That's BBC NewsHour at 9 on 93.9 FM WNYC. It's morning edition from NPR news. I'm Steve inskeep. And a may Martinez. Grief takes on many shapes. It can be personal, like losing a mother, or it can arise from a collective experience, say, a country ravaged by injustice violence and natural disaster. Surrounded by so much loss, how does one keep going? So he Jones tackles this question in his latest poetry collection titled a live at the end of the world. NPR's of verma has more. Say Jones new book of poems came together during the pandemic's lockdown phase. We had no sense of time and scale, how long were we going to go on living that way? I felt very isolated. He was also nearing the ten year anniversary of his mother's passing. As the poet was working through his own loss, he was also surrounded by a collective experience of it. My reckoning with those personal feelings kind of keyed me into what we're kind of going through in a really a systemic way. Jones collection is called a live at the end of the world. As he points to climate disaster, gun violence and America's broader systemic failures, he also writes about a new relationship and falling in love. And you see sight on the page being like, am I allowed to love? Can we do this right now? Is this an appropriate time? He says these questions come from an American culture invested in just moving on. And for him, the end of the world is not a one time event. Sorry, it's not going to be like the movie deep impact or Armageddon where there's one dramatic event and we all come together. Because he says the grief that comes after these moments doesn't end, it just changes. Here's an excerpt from one of the books four title poems. In America, a gathering of people is called target practice, or a funeral. Depending on who lives long enough to define the terms. But for now, we are alive at the end of the world. Shell shocked by headlines and alarm clocks. Burning through what little love we have left. As we enter an era of increasing destabilization, the port wants to know what does it mean to love and create amidst that. You see, even as there was just total peril and calamity on the page with these poems that they're still human beings who still have to go about the business of making sense of their lives. And through his poems, Jones reminds us that even though it often feels like the end of the world, we are alive and we are here. And your news. It can be tough to handle the stresses of the world, especially when you're young. So there's a Sesame Street song performed by the Muppet rosita. Belly if you nervous and you like so much breathing through your nose put your belly cross and out your mouth. I don't know there might be some grown-ups I could
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"It escalates with yelling and physical threats. Laranda barely acknowledges the fight. Around here, but not just here. Scenes like this have become as commonplace as inclement weather. Kayla toppin says she's seen more than enough violence and aggression for a lifetime. It makes being happy and joyful. It interrupts it sometimes. My mother having a good time, but sometimes it just makes me think something bad could happen. Because of all the bad things that happened, it just. I don't know, it makes a difference. And it also makes it a cautious joy. I'm very cautious. A cautious joy. Kayla's vigilance is a matter of survival. It's what drives her to protect younger kids, so that they have a chance to experience life after childhood. NPR news, am Noel Evans in Rochester, New York. Later today on all things considered, as the investigation continues into chartered flights that took migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, critics say these stunts highlight the political theater that puts immigrants at the center. Will this move motivate people in the midterms to listen, ask your smart speaker to play your member station by name. This is NPR news. This is WNYC in New York. Later on morning edition, ambulance drivers used to be just that drivers, but in 1967, one Pittsburgh ambulance service began providing emergency treatment. They actually were the first paramedic units in the United States doing what we now know as paramedic work. More on the legacy of this majority black outfit coming up later this hour. Support for WNYC comes from Susan Lori parks top dog underdog on Broadway, starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul mateen the second, directed
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"Westminster Abbey. And even pubs, a few pubs around here have screening it too. And I think that's about the fact that some people don't want to sit at home and watch this alone, there's a feeling that they will draw comfort from a collective experience. And that's what I'm witnessing right here in this square and in Newcastle. People seeking a collective experience. We've heard that time and again, from people even waiting ten, 11, 12 hours in queue to be part of the memorial ceremonies to catch a glimpse of her casket. NPR's Phil Reeves giving us a sense of how people up in northern England in Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne are reflecting on the queen, Phil, thank you so much. You're welcome. You've been listening to live special coverage from NPR news. This is doubly when YC later on morning edition and art and music festival in one London neighborhood over the weekend, visitors had the death of Queen Elizabeth II very much on their minds. We'll hear some of what they were thinking later this hour. WNYC supporters include Susan Lori parks top dog underdog on Broadway, starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul mateen the second directed by Kenny Leon, performances begin September 27th at the John golden theater. Tickets at top dog underdog dot com. Even with families struggling to pay the cost, it's not enough. Many child care providers can no longer afford to stay open. Providers just don't have the profits to do that. This is really a failed market where the government just has to step in. Join us as we talk about the crisis facing child care providers. You can barely make ends meet. I'm Melissa Harris Perry, and that's next time on the takeaway, weekday afternoon to three on
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"People who've expanded the norms of gender and sexuality in the performing arts. Mercedes Benz embraces the freedom of individual expression and continues to support and stand with the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen all month long as we share stories of proud individuals whose authentic expression in their lives and bodies of work have challenged norms, driving society forward. Hello, from wonder media network I'm director and entertainer, Raven symone, and this is women manica. I'm so excited to host this final week of will manica Pride Month with my wife, content creator and podcast host, Miranda pyramid mayday, who you'll hear from tomorrow. This month, will manica is highlighting queer stars of the stage and screen. Today we're talking about a star of the stage and screen whose undeniable sense of humor broke barriers. Both the first queer woman and first black cast member of Saturday Night Live, this trailblazing performer is rarely given her do. Let's talk about danitra fans. I'm here if you will to promote my lifestyle. If you are a straight woman, please, please, please do not be offended. I was once straight also. It's a phase. Dmitri Vance was born in Chicago. As a young girl, she excelled in debate in theater, as a student at Chicago's Roosevelt college, dnieper's dynamic theater performances earned her intrigue to the Webber Douglas academy of dramatic art in London. There, she studied to become a classically trained Shakespearean actress, yet when she moved to New York after graduation, she was unable to find work. She was told, sorry, blacks don't do Shakespeare. Momentarily defeated, D nitra took a job teaching high school in Gary Indiana, but she kept her love for performing alive. She worked shop characters in comedy routines in her free time. She performed at the famed second city comedy club in Chicago. In 1981, Dmitri took another swing at making it in New York. This time she was far more successful. D nitra found her footing at BAC a downtown. The Brooklyn arts council alternative performing space, BA, CA helped launch the careers of other legendary performers like Spike Lee, Danny DeVito, and Susan Lori parks. Dmitri continued to workshop characters and developed a style that uniquely combined her technical training with her instinct for comedy. Her success at BAC a led to a 6 month residency at the experimental off Broadway theater la mama. The show was called danitra vans and the mellow white boys. Denatured performed characters in front of a group of white male backup singers. A review for the show in The Village Voice read, danitra Vance creates magic of a sharper sort. Due to her success at la mama, in 1985, Janet got a big break. Dinitro was cast in the 11th season of Saturday Night Live. Although SNL had featured black performers in the past, the nature became the first black person to formally join the cast. Alongside fellow member Terry Sweeney, D nitra was one of the first LGBTQ cast members in the show's history. Although at the time, only Terry was open about his sexuality, D nitra was not. Denis was time on SNL was complicated, while her presence was barrier breaking, she was often limited to stereotypically black roles. When she could, denature used her air time to push back on these stereotypes and complicate the dominant narratives around black women. One of her most famous sketches was called I play the maids, it was a parody of the Barry Manilow song I write the songs. In it, dimitra bemoans the constant stereotyping she faced as a black performer. She similarly spoofed the 1960s sitcom that girl in a sketch called that black girl. Another standout contribution to Denis time on SNL includes Shakespeare in the slums. In this sketch de nitro once again defies expectations with her mastery of the Shakespearean text. If. That purpose marriage send word but what I prepare to come to be where and I would time that will perform the right. That means marry man. I'm not giving up nothing to you marry me. Fellow comedian Marina Franklin reflected on Dimitri's life in an interview for vulture, of denatures performance in Shakespeare in the slums, Marina said she was the first black woman to sort of go outside of the stereotype while doing a stereotypical character. Still, denature remained frustrated with her experience at SNL and opted to leave the show when the season ended, but denatured performing career was far from over. In 1986, dimitra won an NAACP Image Award that same year, she appeared in the off Broadway production of the colored museum. Danitra went on to form a successful creative partnership with the playwright George C Wolfe a few years later, denature starred in his play spunk, an adaptation of zora, Neal hurston short stories. Denise's performance in spunk earned her an obie award. Danitra also took her talents to the big screen, she landed supporting roles in the film's sticky fingers, the war of the roses and hanging with the homeboys, and leading roles in the film's limit up with Ray Charles and little man Tate with Jodie Foster. In 1990, dinitro was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. She captured her experience in a performance piece called the radical girl's guide to radical mastectomy. In 1993, her cancer resurfaced, and a year later she died. Only a few of her obituaries mentioned her longtime partner, Jones Miller. Even in death, denatured pursued comedy, instead of the traditional funeral, denatured final request was for her family to throw her a going away party at an amusement park. They obliged and spent the day throwing bean bags in bobbing for apples. Lesbianism, a few good women, I've got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May. I guess you say, what can make me feel this way, you know? Information, call your lesbian recruiter today, one 800 LES, BI, AN. All month long, we're highlighting queer stars of the stage and screen. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at blam manica podcast. Special thanks to Liz and Ginny Kaplan for inviting us to guest host. Talk to you tomorrow..
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"Was tough, really tough to do it because there was no blitzing glamour at all in telling this story and being out in the open air in the field. And they live nowhere at night in the mud in the water in the grass up scaling up the side of the mountain, all of those things. We did, but I think that they were completely necessary in order to tell the story in the right way. Yeah. How do you feel about the conversations, and I don't think there's necessarily a right or wrong answer to this, but I'm curious because I think there aren't that many movies recently in the past couple of years like Harriet that talk about a lot of the emotions whether it be obviously Harriet had some really high highs and also some really low lows and specifically just moments and slavery. And how do you think about the conversation as far as we shouldn't be necessarily glorifying black trauma, but also this is a really important story that needs to be told in this story hadn't been told on the big screen. Yeah, I think I totally understand that conversation, but the thing my real purpose when it came to telling the story was more about the human being. It really was about heart because yes, she did some incredible things. But I believe her story deserves to be told. The woman who had 91 years of life in her, who did many things in that 91 years, that story deserves to be told and I understand that the pain and trauma that comes from the knowledge of the reasons why she had to do those things can sometimes be too much for people to watch. But I'm not telling it means that no one gets to learn. And in the seeing her work and seeing what was sacrificed to get people to freedom to make sure that women had to vote because that's also what she was a part of her being in the war, making sure that people were safe. A lot of sacrifice went into her life. She had to do alone in order to keep people safe. And when we erase that work, we don't do her justice and we don't remind ourselves about what has gone into making sure that we have certain freedoms now. And it also doesn't allow us to think about the work that's gone before that we still have to do now. I know that there's pain tied to watching some of the harrowing things that she had to go through. But this is also before she is an abolitionist and a hero. This is a black woman who had love and lost and wants and desires and also deserves to be seen. And since she hadn't been seen for such a long time in the right way, I wouldn't have been doing my duty if I didn't tell the story is fully as I possibly could. In my car. So I think some of these stories, yes, can be really tough to watch. I do think they're important. Absolutely. I do think they're important. I think sometimes we forget that these people were existing living human beings who also had lives that were bigger than bigger than the norm. And so deserved to be remembered and celebrated. Especially when it's about specific individuals who shifted and changed the course of history. That deserves to be celebrated. I think. No, I absolutely agree and I think even when you were just talking about it, I don't think that people in making that argument ever sat down and thought about Harry's own personal desires and dreams. And goals for herself because obviously there were so many more important things that needed to happen. Yeah. Did you feel like with playing Harriet that that really set the stage and led you to wanting to take on Aretha as well? Another big icon in a different direction? No, because I had no idea that Aretha was coming. And before Aretha, I had done a little series called the outsider, which felt really good to do. And it was very different nonexistent character who made up and fictional and all those things. Aretha sort of came out of the blue. I really wasn't expecting it. And the reason I did it is just because I'm so weird if you believe in science and this is definitely for you. There were so many different signs that were like, this is this is right. This is you should be doing this. I remember when I went to sit down with Susan Lori parks, the writer when we was in talks to maybe do it because it came from the message came to me from drive Davis and I would imagine that and Brian gray is that they wanted me to consider doing it. They thought it would be great for it after they heard me sing a song of hers on a red carpet at the tonys. I did not know that that tape had gone anywhere, but that interview. And so that table had gotten back to them, then they had come to my team to ask if I would be interested. And I said, well, I'd love to sit and talk to the writer. I sat and talked to Susan O park. And when I sat down in this post, I think we were at the nomad, I think, in New York, the restaurant was sort of playing, you know, hotel music. It's sort of like nondescript, no words, no lyrics, no artists, nothing. Music? Yeah, like that. And then I sit down and daydreaming comes on. Aretha's daydreaming comes on. And it's sort of like nothing no music no music and all of a sudden it goes that way, sort of like chromatic scale that goes up to nothing. And I look at this neuropathy and I go, did you plan this? Did you turn that on? Did you tell them to watch me sit down and then she was like, no, I don't know why that's saying. That is not me. It's not me. And so it's just like one after the other sign after the other. And I was just like, okay, this feels like it's right. It feels.
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"susan lori parks" Discussed on TV's Top 5
"Susan lori parks. We've had a lot of playwrights who have become first time show runners pretty much direct from the theater. I'm curious how prepared did you feel like you were for this experience. And what from the sort of play writing world gives you particular sort of comfort within a tv. Production is a really good. I thought about had this one pilot. That was shy. Although i was there nine days it was my first experience. Fx pilot that of that which didn't get was nine days. I think so. I didn't have very much experience at all coming into this. Of course. I wish there are things i knew. I learned through the ten months of shooting that i wish i knew at the beginning ryan. Murphy's been very gracious to me and like give me notes on my scripts at saint temporary respectful. My scripts in has been drafted. A of this we had other other directors and i. I was on set a lot more than i thought it would be to be. Honest in brad. Anina i think would be there too and i was able to sort of take i learned over the first few months to i learned a lot about you know when it comes to production and like you know the things that i deeply involved in which is sort of character bothering are set team and stuff like i learned to shared opinions. I had it to get ahead of something and like prepare. You know it took me a little time to learn this but to get ahead of something and send a message to be in the mix on on decisions uncreative decisions that are made about the way things will appear in the will be shot. I learned to get close to the directors as they were working. I really love that You know obviously the thing that similar theater is working with actors so i always did feel comfort. I felt comfortable. That that those different type of acting. And it's a whole different thing. I did feel. That's the one that's consistent thing. I there's always a comfort in that to me is just navigating different Scenes people in trying to suss out with different actress. Want from a writer. Or don't whatever so that. That was one thing that was consistent Playwright in the theater. The writers treated as so important. And so it does give you someone who's just like a weird and unique like nerd. Who should never go outside. It does give you a think a sense of in a way there is a sense of sort of entitled meant you know to entitled to your own voice in your opinion. If you i'm very proud can be very precious with language. That means i'm a writer. Obviously as a dumping say i will think about especially. This is the voice of certain characters. I was very protective. Of and i would go crazy too. I mean there is a line you know. There are a couple kinds of some certain of dialogue that i would think about for hours and revise again and again and again and issue new pages of phrase and think about so. I think that i think theater sent me up to be that sort of psychotic about areas of feel entitled that psychosis but You know. I think i still have a lot to learn but i did. I think learning to sort of take up. This is a dumping disabled learning to sort of take up space and all that stuff level. I did learn to do that a little bit more as we progressed. And i don't think i was. Not i mean i don't know you can ask the actor and i think i'm i'm not as afraid of actors as perhaps a writer might be. They had never worked in situations where they've been kept totally away from them. Which can happen right and wrong about that. Like in movies and stuff like that. The writers usually in a box where no one you know so that was a helpful hint consistency for me. And we do like to end these interviews with the same question. what have you been watching and enjoying. Let's see so. I've not right now. I'm watching this Nhk the japanese. Nhk's like is like japan's japan's public broadcaster. Sort of like the bbc of japan. So i might not watching their documentary about Higham miyazaki which is really good and the aired on japanese tv. But it's on their website and it's quite it's just him walking around and doing drawings to try to make a film and find find the character and find like his. He doesn't need a script which is crazy he does not crazy. It's miyazaki of course. It's like something. But i i don't expect the hit Except for him drawing but it was just watching that. I did watch the white lotus and really loved it. I haven't been letting myself. I'm such an idiot. I haven't been watching enough tv. I watched i watched the underground railroad a few months ago. I love that You know just so brilliant. I never the books. I've loving that And it's really underground railroad white lotus. Which i don't feel like force obvious things to watch. But that's my answer. Embarrassed and the miyazaki documentary does the sort of three things that i've been pulling onto now as a climb out of this abyss are my miniseries excellent. Well thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. We appreciate it sara. Thank you so much guys. Impeachment american crime story premieres tuesday september seventh on fx number. Five as usual. We wrap things up with the critics corner. Among this week's major new launches are hulu investigating only murders in the building. Netflix has a bob. Ross documentary and former comedy central critical favourite the other two returns for its second season on. Hbo mex- dan. What you get lots and lots of stuff. Some of it. Good some of it. Click bait on net flicks I watched three episodes of click bait And i will probably be done of the best i can say about. Click bait is that it feels like it was a twenty thirteen israeli formats. That was run through babel fish and no one bothered to correct it so it sounded like it was written in english and then they shot it with a half american cast and half australian cast doing bad american accents. It's it's very very bad. I i think that probably some people will be entertained by its ludicrousness. And that's totally fine. If you want to be entertained by its ludicrousness. god bless it's a crappy show And he's gonna feel dan. You really feel no. It's just whatever. I've seen three episodes. I hear it gets worse. So that's probably fine. You mentioned the other two and we talked. In the september preview segment about how long the gaps between shows can be and this is one of the oddest of those gaps as i said in my review. It's not one of those situations where it's like the show. Runner is donald glover. Or noah. Hawley or larry david and the networks basically said to the show runners look whenever you can bring us the next season a year show will take it and will be happy for it. This was a strange thing where the show was ordered and went to air on comedy central. It was renewed for a second season pretty quickly. It kinda vanished. Then it went to. Hbo max for the second season and now two and a half years after the last episode aired premiered. And i mean. I guess the best thing i can say about it is that The second season of the other two based on the six episodes. I've seen is very much like the first season. And so if you liked it and this is a show that has a very good grasp on its target audience and the things that make them laugh and if you are that target audience i think this second season is very solid and will amuse you in a lot of the same ways. I can say that there's more molly shannon than in the first season she was. I believe recurring in the first season. She's irregular here and she's doing great work. It's also great in the white lotus in her little guest starring role there and the the main stars drew tarver and helene. Yorke are both really really good all so to me. The show remains kind of hidden in its comedy and i sort of wish. It was investing a tiny bit more in the heart. I compared to the first season of up shits creek which was a show that was kind of in a transitional phase already between being kind of the low brow. Easy joke show that it was at first and being the eventual emmy juggernaut became. So i don't. This show has not yet made that huge leap..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Lee Daniels and Andra Day on the hidden activist life of Billie Holiday
"Good afternoon. I'm jonathan kaye. Part opinion writer for the washington post. Welcome to washington post. Live the united states versus. Billie holiday is the incredible story of the fbi's effort efforts to keep jazz great billie holiday from singing strange fruit. Her signature song about lynching director lee daniels presents a gripping drama that shows holiday in all her glory and tragedy. Andrew o.'day gives a stellar performance. So convincing you'd think you were watching lady day herself. That's why i am thrilled and honored to welcome lee daniels and andhra dade to washington post. Live thank you both very much for being here to see you again. I know it's been a very long time. Greats isn't a you again both of you. Congratulations on this film. The moment i saw it. I immediately sent a letter to y'all saying okay here. All your options. I need to talk to you about this film. Le- let me start. Start with you. Thanks so as we saw in the in the opening clip. The film tackles pretty much everything. Racism sexism addiction art abuse. And i'm wondering. How did you come to this project. And what influenced your approach to billie. Holiday's life susan lori parks the pulitzer winning a prize winning playwright Sent me this beautiful script that really depicts the government breaking her down coming for her coming for billie holiday and and really trying to cripple her. As an artist or singing strange fruit which was about lynching black people and that wasn't the understanding of billie holiday that i had. I thought that she was a troubled jazz singer. Got in trouble with the law. And you know the drugs and was fashionable. I did know that she was a political activist. And so and i you know i pride myself in being smart about our history and i thought to myself that i i don't do this. I don't know i had. I had to do it. And i thought also like how many other stories about our people have have. They have been hidden so yeah that was more threes in selena. And so right and i am going to latch onto what you just said before. Which was you thought of billie holiday as a jazz singer But you didn't really know that she was an activist. What what more did she do. Other than being defiant about trying to seeing strange fruit despite government opposition and government targeting. What other things that she do that made you realize that she's she's more than just lady day. What other than she did. Besides stand up to the government. I guess a lot to say i couldn't. I don't know that i could today. I don't think that i could. They told me lead. You can never make a movie again or coming for your mother. I'm going to come for your kids and you will. I'm like take it. But the thing about her strength and her being born in the into the world that she was being born in tipton board she didn't she didn't get to fly in you know what because she. She had nothing to lose by living in her constantly. And let me bring you in here. I saw your interview go ahead. Go ahead now. I just wanted to back off that too. I mean. I think what shows so brilliantly in the movies that apart what she did in standing up to the government was being human. She's black queer woman in the nineteen thirties. Forties and fifties and that living in an owning their in itself is is is defiance than accident that she's integrating audiences music one of the first artists a black woman to integrate carnegie hall. She wasn't the first but she is one of the first shoes audiences in athlete. People understand. This is sort of pre. They're real reinvigorated civil rights mellon so we wouldn't have our heroes would not have been as bold in as they were no thurgood. Marshall end the light on downs. You know rosa parks on down if it were not for her singing. Strange fruit in defiance of the government for not for setting off this alarm in the nation. In letting people know that it's that this was a really really understand. How much for june that emboldened the civil rights news we know today you know as as arrested in the so and him showing her in all her. Human element is is access. Defiance all in itself nelson young. I'm proud from did work.
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Lee Daniels and Andra Day take on Billie Holiday’s legacy
"Afternoon. I'm jonathan kaye. Part opinion writer for the washington post. Welcome to washington post. Live the united states versus. Billie holiday is the incredible story of the fbi's effort efforts to keep jazz great billie holiday from singing strange fruit. Her signature song about lynching director lee daniels presents a gripping drama that shows holiday in all her glory and tragedy. Andrew o.'day gives a stellar performance. So convincing you'd think you were watching lady day herself. That's why i am thrilled and honored to welcome lee daniels and andhra dade to washington post. Live thank you both very much for being here to see you again. I know it's been a very long time. Greats isn't a you again both of you. Congratulations on this film. The moment i saw it. I immediately sent a letter to y'all saying okay here. All your options. I need to talk to you about this film. Le- let me start. Start with you. Thanks so as we saw in the in the opening clip. The film tackles pretty much everything. Racism sexism addiction art abuse. And i'm wondering. How did you come to this project. And what influenced your approach to billie. Holiday's life susan lori parks the pulitzer winning a prize winning playwright Sent me this beautiful script that really depicts the government breaking her down coming for her coming for billie holiday and and really trying to cripple her. As an artist or singing strange fruit which was about lynching black people and that wasn't the understanding of billie holiday that i had. I thought that she was a troubled jazz singer. Got in trouble with the law. And you know the drugs and was fashionable. I did know that she was a political activist. And so and i you know i pride myself in being smart about our history and i thought to myself that i i don't do this. I don't know i had. I had to do it. And i thought also like how many other stories about our people have have. They have been hidden so yeah that was more threes in selena. And so right and i am going to latch onto what you just said before. Which was you thought of billie holiday as a jazz singer But you didn't really know that she was an activist. What what more did she do. Other than being defiant about trying to seeing strange fruit despite government opposition and government targeting. What other things that she do that made you realize that she's she's more than just lady day. What other than she did. Besides stand up to the government. I guess a lot to say i couldn't. I don't know that i could today. I don't think that i could. They told me lead. You can never make a movie again or coming for your mother. I'm going to come for your kids and you will. I'm like take it. But the thing about her strength and her being born in the into the world that she was being born in tipton board she didn't she didn't get to fly in you know what because she. She had nothing to lose by living in her constantly. And let me bring you in here. I saw your interview go ahead. Go ahead now. I just wanted to back off that too. I mean. I think what shows so brilliantly in the movies that apart what she did in standing up to the government was being human. She's black queer woman in the nineteen thirties. Forties and fifties and that living in an owning their in itself is is is defiance than accident that she's integrating audiences music one of the first artists a black woman to integrate carnegie hall. She wasn't the first but she is one of the first shoes audiences in athlete. People understand. This is sort of pre. They're real reinvigorated civil rights mellon so we wouldn't have our heroes would not have been as bold in as they were no thurgood. Marshall end the light on downs. You know rosa parks on down if it were not for her singing. Strange fruit in defiance of the government for not for setting off this alarm in the nation. In letting people know that it's that this was a really really understand. How much for june that emboldened the civil rights news we know today you know as as arrested in the so and him showing her in all her. Human element is is access. Defiance all in itself nelson young. I'm proud from did work.