In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew. LINKS & INFO Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976). Speech 1 Peter Finch as Howard Beale Speech 2 Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983 Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991. Rough translation in the episode transcript. Barbie, dir. Greta Gerwig (2023) America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech) Voices in response: Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter Hidden Figures, dir. Theodore Melfi (2016) Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech) Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync, and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker. Janice Mirikitani, excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990) Jane Fonda, excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025. Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017. Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom, dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech) Other voices (in order): David Cromer as Debate Moderator Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon Jason Butler Harner as Lewis Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. . The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940). THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, APRIL 19. Drop me a note! Support the show And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos. :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!
