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Program 09-11-22-B |
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Lynda Barry rules the pages of the alternative press as the Queen of Comics. Her new books is about liberating the creative process. Barry believes that deep down we're all artists, if we could just get out of our own way. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll talk about channeling creativity, whether we play the piano, plan advertising campaigns, or keep a journal. And we'll visit with a rock n' roll muse.
SEGMENT 1:
Celebrated cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry talks with Steve Paulson about her latest book. Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. Also, James Othmer was the creative director of advertising behemoth Young & Rubicam. He tells tales of that life in his book, "Adland." Othmer tells Jim Fleming about the ad he created using veterans on the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and we hear it.
SEGMENT 2:
It was the best of times for Pattie Boyd. Her modeling career was booming and the sixties were exploding on the London scene. One day she got a call - she'd been cast in a Beatles film. The rest is history: she married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her. We meet the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time, from George Harrison's "Something" to Eric Clapton's "Layla." She's just published her story, called "Wonderful Tonight" and tells Steve Paulson about it.
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Geoffrey Colvin is the author of "Talent is Overrated" and Fortune Magazine's Senior Editor at large. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about genius and says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 09-11-22-B.
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| Lynda Barry, What It Is
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| Pattie Boyd and Penny Junor, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me (Three Rivers) | |
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Geoffrey Colvin, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (Portfolio) |
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| James P. Othmer, Adland: Searching
for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet (Doubleday) |
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- “Hey There, Lynda Barry”
- recorded from YouTube
- after Barry: Heavenly Earth Dance by Iwan Hasan from
“Beyond Six Strings”www.harpguitarmusic.com
- after Othmer: Duke Ellington, Take the “A”
Train from “Masters of the Big Bands” BMG 61109-2
- after Colvin: Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C K. 279, 3rd Mvt, Ingrid Haebler, piano, Denon 81757 6689 2
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