Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
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S15E576 Lana Turner
This Harlem fashion icon owns more than 600 hats. "There were times I would leave my house, get down the hill, and recognize it's the wrong hat." She'd turn around and march back up that hill, with…
S15E575 Anjan Chatterjee
His research on the neuroscience of aesthetics suggests that people crave the human touch. "If they think something is made by a person, they like it more; if they think it's made by a machine they…
S15E574 Elizabeth Way
This scholar says, "What made American fashion different is that it was to be wearable, comfortable, practical." But not on the red carpet at the Oscars, she did not add. We spoke in conjunction with…
S15E573 Kinan Azmeh
I'm reluctant to declare an artist a success or failure. This Syrian-born composer and clarinetist has a better characterization: doing well. "Staying true to what I wanted to do, and leading a…
S15E572 Rev. Winnie Varghese
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is an Episcopal church and more, says its Dean. "I have Jewish, Hindu, Muslim friends who pray here, because it feels like a holy place." My house shall be a…
S15E571 the late Aaron Copland
As portrayed by Michael Boriskin, director of Copland House. "I decided from the time I was in my mid-twenties that there was no such thing as a rival or a competitor, that we were all colleagues."…
S15E570 Charles Renfro
Can architecture be witty? At that scale? At those prices? This architect ponders. "It can certainly be smart, and it can do unexpected things, which doesn't necessarily make it witty. That might…
S15E569 Richard Nelson
This playwright directed his When the Hurly Burly's Done in Kyiv. "It's about six young women putting on a play in the middle of a war, to be performed by six young women putting on this play in the…
S15E568 LaFrae Sci
The leader of the Willie Mae Rock Camp describes a device she uses to teach girls about blues and STEM: "It is a collision of culture and technology and future possibilities." One of those robot…
S15E567 Ali Velshi
"There are only two reasons to be a journalist," says this one, "To bear witness—to see things that your viewers or readers or listeners can't see themselves—and then to use that to hold power to…
S15E566 Andrew Kimball
As head of NYC's Economic Development Corporation, he guided massive projects. "I knew in my twenties that I wanted to be in urban economic development. I actually knew from being a little kid." When…
S15E565 Carlos Simon
"My father was a pastor. My grandfather was a pastor. My great-grandfather was a pastor." Why didn't this composer go into the family business? Perhaps he did. "I'm doing some of the same things as…
S15E565 Adrian Untermyer
This preservationist speaks movingly about his great great grandfather, Samuel Untermyer, "the super-lawyer who took on Hitler." It's the comic book Michael Chabon was born to write. A conversation…
S15E563 Janine Barchas, Mary Crawford
These Jane Austen scholars note that she long had a diverse readership, but in post-war America that changed. "Publishers pushed her to women specifically. Just like they made pink Cadillacs, they…
S15E562 Paola Antonelli
The Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA enjoys work that surprises, up to a point. "I don't like gigantic provocations, I like small provocations, the ones that sneak up on you." Jolted awake,…
S15E561 James Carpenter
Celebrated for his use of light, this architect is moved by that from distant stars: "Those photons are around us—we can't see them—but they are fundamentally carrying the history of the universe."…
S15E560 Jonathan Bank
The heirs of deceased playwrights can be finicky about new productions—Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller—but the head of the Mint Theater has a different experience. "What I tend to run into from estates…
S15E559 Alan Fausel
The curator and executive director of the AKC Museum of the Dog recalls one owned by Charles Dickens. "It was a Maltese that was so flea-ridden, they regularly had to shave him and bathe him to get…
S15E558 Peggy Gavan
We tweaked our format to Cat Cat Cat for the author of The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendship in Old New York. "A lot of my stories I get from going to the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in…
S15E557 Ydanis Rodriguez
The head of New York City's Department of Transportation sees his task as building an egalitarian city. "Transportation is a human right, but in the past most of the investment in transportation…
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