Episode #1338
Salman Rushdie & Andy Warhol
Friday, September 21, 2012
Salman Rushdie in Studio 360 (with Kurt Andersen)
(Josh Rogosin)
Kurt Andersen talks with Salman Rushdie. His new memoir chronicles the stranger-than-fiction decade he spent under threat of the Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa. We revisit the golden age of MTV. And Andy Warhol turns a can of Campbell’s soup into an American icon.
(Segments in this week's show aired previously.)
Why Salman Rushdie Became Joseph Anton
On Valentines Day, 1989, Iran’s dying leader, the Ayatollah Khomeni, issued a fatwa (death sentence) against Rushdie for supposedly blaspheming Islam's prophet in his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie went into hiding for most of the next decade. His new memoir chronicles that ...
American Icons: Warhol's Soup Cans
Around 1961, Andy Warhol started painting cans of Campbell's soup, in all 32 varieties. He liked to tell people that his mother made him Campbell's soup and that's why he painted it. The soup cans are probably the most recognizable images in American art, and Warhol intended ...
Craig Marks: I Want My MTV
Thirty years ago, hardly anyone knew what a music video was. On the night MTV was launched, its founders — a ragtag bunch of music fans and rookie television execs — took a bus from Manhattan to New Jersey to watch the broadcast, because no local cable company carried the fledgling ...
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Fantastic interview. Love you, Alan! You were one of the main influences for me to get back into acting later ...
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Really difficult to convey this as a "sound story" and it was done beautifully. Really compelling.
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Alan Cumming & David Kwong
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Isabella Rossellini's Mammas
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Sarah Sze and the Venice Biennale
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Alan Cumming
Comments [5]
Tom Petty did a great job with the Alice in Wonderland theme: a superlative video.
As always, an impressive show.
Salman Rushdie's Lost Decade was fascinating. I'm just so glad he's on the far side of it.
My favorite MTV Video would be Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresitable."
I'm not in love with the song, because it still sounds pretty murky to me, but the over-the-top high models knock me out every time.
My favorite MTV video was Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More". Brilliant!
Subject: Favorite MTV video.
My favorite MTV video was George Harrison's "I Got My Mind Set on You." I was very upset when it did not win "Best Animated Video" at the 1987 MTV music awards!
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