In Tribute: A Memory Lane Conversation With Jeanne Moreau

** "There are some images of women I don't want to portray - or maybe I refused one or two films because I was in love."

Iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau, designated femme fatale of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s, just passed away at the age of 89. A director, writer and singer as well, and perhaps best known for her starring role in Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, Moreau was once referred to by another director Orson Welles, for whom she starred in four of his films, as "the greatest actress in the world." And in tribute to the passing of this immensely talented and remarkable woman, we'll revisit my conversation with Moreau back in 2013. The actress discusses the magic of art and connections to Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Frank Sinatra, Gary Cooper, Mae West and Lillian Gish; the breaking down of barriers for women related to sexuality and creative empowerment in movies; the history of class conflict in movie theaters; the Iraq invasion and freedom fries; and a missing film of hers from a small Croatian island movie set that may now in fact be somewhere under a bed.

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** "My poems emerge from the dark of you meeting I, then there is something more than light - there is life, in this life there are people wanting secret wishes to take shape in poems."

  
California Typewriter: A documentary about this struggling Berkeley typewriter repair shop trying to keep that labor of love alive for those machines, along with a spotlight on literary icon Sam Shepard who likewise just passed away - and the typewriter as his artistic weapon of choice expressed in this, his last movie. And a conversation with San Francisco Latina poet Silvi Alcivar, whose unique Poetry Store is also the subject of this film - what the Poetry Store is all about and why, along with referencing unicorns, jellyfish, and a poem she helped someone compose at the store that may have stopped a suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge.

** "They don't want a bunch of poor artists out there, because then they can't go to Walmart and buy more stuff."

Ideology And Culture Corner: The Douglas Rushkoff Conversation Series. The second installment with the professor of media theory and digital economics, and the author of Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus, exploring art in present day society and its interface with technology. And an investigation into the disappearance of art in the public schools. A Corporations R Us Report.

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