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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tuesday in NYC! A Show Ridiculously Overstuffed with Famous People!
Hi everyone. Ira Glass here. This Tuesday in New York City I'll be appearing at this fundraiser that really is overbooked with the famous. Paul Simon is playing. Parker Posey and Patricia Clarkson are performing with Bobby Canavale, Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio) and Jonathan Franzen. Not to mention Dave Eggers. That's just how star-studded this evening is. Dave Eggers is buried in the sixth sentence in this paragraph. Also: Department of Eagles (members of Grizzly Bear), Thao Nguyen and Zach Rogue. The Daily Show's John Oliver hosts.
It's 8PM on Tuesday, October 7th at Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). All proceeds go to the literacy program 826NYC. Tickets are available here. Read more about the event here.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Looking For Our Coverage of the Financial Crisis?
If you read about us in The New York Times, or heard a segment from The Giant Pool of Money on your local station's fundraising drive, you can check out the full episode here. You can listen for free at your computer, or download a copy of the show for 95 cents.
We also recommend:- Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson (the guys who did that program) have a new daily, free podcast and blog applying that same explanatory power to each day's breaking news on the financial crisis—Planet Money.
- Enforcers, Act II "Now You SEC Me, Now You Don't"
- Next week on TAL: "Another Frightening Show About the Economy" (promo available here)
- A great episode of Fresh Air, in which Terry Gross interviews Michael Greenberger, a former director at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He gives a very helpful, lucid primer on the current financial picture.
- A follow-up Terry did with Greenberger, just as good, when the government bailed out AIG in mid-September.
Understand the current bailout! Regale dinner parties with your take on credit default swaps! Amaze your friends!
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Monday, September 15, 2008
We Won!
 To paraphrase Meat Loaf, two out of five ain't bad. On Saturday we won Emmys for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming. Ira writes:
Up until the weekend of the ceremony, we'd all been kind of shrugging it off. We wouldn't be in the big televised ceremony that the stars are at; our categories were presented as part of the "Creative Arts" Emmys which includes all sorts of tech awards—Best Sound Editing for a Series, Best Makeup Without Prosthetics, that kind of thing—and some of the nonfiction and reality show awards. Since it wasn't the big Emmy ceremony, what was the big deal?
But then we got there and suddenly it seemed very big and official and there was a red carpet and actual TV stars and now we wanted to win very badly.
We lost the first three awards we were up for: Cinematography, Writing and Editing. It started to feel like this wasn't our crowd, like we weren't going to win anything. And then, when they read the nominees for Best Nonfiction Series, the camera man roaming the aisle next to me flipped through some notes and then trained his camera on James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actors Studio, one of our competitors. About a half-dozen of us saw this and we turned to each other and said "Okay, we're dead." And then we won! When they called our names, it was truly a shock. It was like one of those movies where they fake you out with an ending where everything goes wrong and the main character dies and you're sad and then Aha! Psych! And everything works out great. It was very exciting.
Turns out the although this is not the big Emmys ceremony, this one will be broadcast next weekend on E!
Pictured: From left, cinematographer Adam Beckman, host Ira Glass and senior producer Julie Snyder backstage after winning the Emmy for Best Nonfiction Series. Photo by Banks Tarver.
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