Why are film buffs still captivated by “Gone with the Wind” 70 years after the film was released? We’ll explore the film, the book and the myth of Scarlet O’Hara this hour with writer and film critic Molly Haskell whose new book is “Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited” (Yale, 2009).
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How is the NYPD safeguarding New York residents in a post-9/11 world? We’ll spend the hour with journalist Christopher Dickey, whose new book is “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD” (Simon and Schuster, 2009). Dickey speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth this evening.
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How are emotions created and where does creativity come from? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He’ll lecture this evening at UTD’s Center for BrainHealth Lecture Series.
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This month marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. But what was the pivotal year in the creation of the Lincoln legend? We’ll spend this hour with historian Charles Bracelen Flood, author of “1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History” (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
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What does it take to turn underserved, inner-city neighborhoods around? We’ll talk this hour with Paul Tough, editor at the New York Times Magazine and author of the book “Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).
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What are things really like in Iran and how should the West deal with a potentially nuclear regime in Tehran? What do Iranians think? We’ll get an informed perspective this evening with “Lipstick Jihad” author Azadeh Moaveni, whose new book is “Honeymoon in Tehran” (Random House, 2009). The National Inventors Hall of Fame recently celebrated the invention of the integrated circuit. In that same spirit, we bring you KERA’s “1958: The Chip that Jack Built” in our Scene segment.
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How does your mind think, remember, learn, create and do all the other things it does simultaneously? We’ll explore the workings of human intellect this hour with one of the world’s 50 living autistic savants, Daniel Tammet. His new book is “Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind” (Free Press, 2009).
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Which of your favorite films and actors will win Oscars this year? We’ll find out when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are held on Sunday, February 22nd. We’ll preview the ceremony this hour with Arnold Wayne Jones of the Dallas Voice, Stephen Becker of KERA’s Art and Seek and Christopher Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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How will the world react to new American leadership after eight years of the Bush Administration? We’ll discuss the situation this hour with Thomas P. M. Barnett author of the new book “Great Powers: America and the World after Bush” (Putnam, 2009).
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How does the Daily Show’s “senior black correspondent” view the Obama election and other significant events of the New Year? We’ll talk this hour with humorist Larry Wilmore whose new book is “I’d Rather We Got Casinos, and Other Black Thoughts” (Hyperion, 2009).
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How is the economic downturn affecting Texas and what does the future hold? Kathleen Cooper, Senior Fellow at SMU’s Tower Center, Mine Yucel, Senior Economist and Vice President at the Federal Reserve of Dallas and William Wallace, Adjunct Professor of Economics at UNT will join us to preview their Thursday panel discussion at the Dallas Democratic Forum.
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What does astrophysics mean to you? We’ll discuss life, the universe and everything else this hour with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who’ll speak to UTA’s Maverick Speakers Series tonight and Bishop Dunne Catholic School’s 2009 GeoTech Conference next month.
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