'Alexander,' Not-So-Great
Nov 24th, 2004 · Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan says the film Alexander, starring Colin Ferrell as the conqueror Alexander the Great, plays like a fantasy self portrait of writer-director Oliver Stone.
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Michael Tilson Thomas' New World Symphony **
Nov 21st, 2004 · Some of the country's best young classical musicians congregate in Miami each year to participate in the New World Symphony. In the first of a three-part series following the symphony, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the orchestra's artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas.
Recipes from the 'America Eats' Project *
Nov 18th, 2004 · These recipes are all from the unfinished Mississippi portion of the "America Eats" project. John T. Edge, director of the Southern Folkways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, unearthed them for Hidden Kitchen's producer Jamie York. Some of the recipes did not carry attribution information; nobody knows who wrote them.
Youth Orchestras Rival the Pros **
Nov 18th, 2004 · The fourth installment of our series on the state of music education in America's schools focuses on youth orchestras. NPR's Korva Coleman speaks with renowned National Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin about the University of Maryland's National Orchestra Institute.
Interview with Director Pedro Almodovar ***
Nov 18th, 2004 · NPR's Melissa Block talks with Pedro Almodovar about his film Bad Education. He says it was one of his hardest films to make, because the story is so close to his own experiences.
Director James Cameron's Deep Obsessions
Nov 18th, 2004 · James Cameron's new project combines two of his longstanding pursuits: deep-sea diving and alien life. The successful director says the fact that the animals in question live deep in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean doesn't make them any less foreign. Hear Cameron and NPR's Neal Conan.
Modern Dance Master Pina Bausch's Latest Work *
Nov 15th, 2004 · German choreographer Pina Bausch is one of the giant figures of modern dance, and her work gained greater notoriety when director Pedro Almodovar featured one of her works in his film Talk to Her. On Tuesday, the notoriously press-shy choreographer premieres For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
'Gods and Monsters' Director Takes on 'Kinsey'
Nov 12th, 2004 · Film critic David Edelstein reviews Kinsey, the film starring Liam Neeson as the famous Dr. Alfred Kinsey who conducted the first scientific studies on human sexual behavior.
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