Arts Express: Roger And Me, Remembering Roger Ebert

Roger And Me: Annette Insdorf shares personal memories of colleague, friend and eminent film critic Roger Ebert who just passed away, and their yearly co-anchoring at the Cannes Film Festival. And what any of this may have to do with Peter O’Toole, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Beethoven, and Ebert’s disdain for soundbites and red carpets.

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Arts Express Best Of The Net Hotspot: Actress turned Labour MP Glenda Jackson gets raw and real, correcting the whitewashed record of the late Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during a heated, controversial memorial in the UK Parliament this week.

Book Corner: Fiction writer Miguel Gardel reads from his short story, Proletarian. A bittersweet reflection on internal exile and his Dominican immigrant roots, in search of a sense of place in an elusive land.

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Prairie Miller

Prairie Miller is a New York multimedia journalist online, in print and radio, who reviews movies and conducts in-depth interviews. She can also be heard on WBAI/Pacifica National Radio Network’s Arts Express.