Arts Express: Lois Smith Talks Nuns, Lady Bird, James Dean, Agatha Christie

** "You know, when I worked with James Dean on East Of Eden, he was not an icon. He was a young actor, having his first movie - and he was moody and complicated."

Selected Shorts: Let Us Tell You A Story: Veteran actress Lois Smith, in conversation about a mystery reading of Agatha Christie she is presenting; the nun she plays in Lady Bird, along with an apparition in Marjorie Prime on screen; a memory lane excursion back in time when Smith starred opposite James Dean in East Of Eden; and her take on the history of the Hollywood casting couch through the decades.

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** "A lot of the other newspapers and television journalists didn't pick up on Watergate for months and months, Ben was hanging out there alone. And so I think he would just say now as he said many times before - 'Nose down, ass up, push forward!' "

Sally Quinn Talks Watergate, The Pentagon Papers, and 'The Newspaperman: The Life And Times of Ben Bradlee.' The late Washington Post journalist has been referred to as 'the most dangerous editor in the United States,' in large part for being credited with taking down then President Nixon in 1975 after the Post broke the Watergate story, and covertly released the Pentagon Papers. Bradlee's widow and journalist Sally Quinn phones in to the show to share recollections. And don multiple critics' hats in a kind of Tale Of Two Pentagon Movies,' assessing the films being released at the same time right now - The Newspaperman, and The Post, starring Tom Hanks as Bradlee. And posed the question as well, what would he be up to today, with what's gone down at the corporatized Washington Post.

** "This is happening at the same time as the Justice Department debates allowing a merger between one of, if not the main content providers, Time Warner - and one of the major broadband companies providing access to the American home, AT&T,"

** Bro On The Global Television Beat: Net Neutrality, Merger Mania, And French Bread. A look at the looming FCC vote to potentially dump Net Neutrality in favor of profiteering corporations - and the issues at hand. Arts Express Paris Correspondent, Sorbonne Professor Dennis Broe weighs in. And, what all of this has to do with CNN, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, the Enlightenment, short attention spans, Voltaire and Verizon.

**Best Of The Net Hotspot This Week: A Brief History Of Net Neutrality - Exposing Conflicts Of Interests Between Corporations, Governments And Big Money. 

Arts Express: Airing on the WBAI/Pacifica National Radio Network and Affiliate Stations.


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