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Episode #1122

Parker, Molina, Banjo Fest

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Sarah Jessica Parker on her new movie, "Sex and the City 2," and the new Bravo reality series she created: "Work of Art." Alfred Molina tells Kurt Andersen how he transforms into the abstract painter Mark Rothko for his current Broadway show, "Red." And a gathering of black banjo players in North Carolina highlights a forgotten chapter of music history.

Studio 360 Episode 1122, Parker, Molina, Banjo Best Parker opposite Chris Noth as Mr. Big. The sequel begins two years after Carrie and Mr. Big’s wedding (featured in the first movie). (Craig Blankenhorn)

Sarah Jessica Parker

Long before "Sex and the City" turned into a global pop culture phenomenon, Sarah Jessica Parker played little orphan Annie on Broadway and a frizzy-haired teenager on "Square Pegs." As the latest SATC movie opens this weekend, Parker tells Kurt about the career path ...

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Sarah Jessica's Next Great Artist

Sarah Jessica Parker tells Kurt about her passion for art, how much she admired the paintings of her late mother-in-law, and how that led her to create the reality series "Work of Art: the Next Great Artist" (premiering June 9th on Bravo). And last summer, during the series' ...

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Svet and the City

You can call Svetlana Maksimovoskaya an entrepreneurial Russian immigrant. But it might be easier to just call her madam. Kurt talks to the proprietor of the St. Petersburg House of Discreet Pleasure, who's now the star of a new series on HDNet called "Svetlana." (She's ...

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Aha Moment: The Dream Syndicate

For more than fifteen years Sam Coomes led the band Quasi along with the drummer Janet Weiss - who has been his ex-wife for most of that time. Coomes tells the story of how he found his calling as a rock musician. It all began ...

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Bonus Track: "Little White Horse"

From Quasi's new album, American Gong.

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Alfred Molina

In the Broadway production of "Red," Alfred Molina transforms himself into the abstract painter Mark Rothko. Molina told Kurt, "Someone said to me the other day, 'Your Rothko is so unlikeable.' And I remember thinking, well, great. That means I'm not pandering."

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Black Banjo Gathering

The Carolina Chocolate Drops have been getting a lot of attention for being young African-American musicians embracing and re-inventing old-timey Americana. This spring, creators and fans of this style of music got together at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, in the mountains of North Carolina. ...

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