August 04, 2006
Dana Gioia is a poet, translator, and former businessman who handles the unenviable task of running the National Endowment for the Arts while convincing Congress to fund it. Gioia urges support of the arts across party lines and recites one of his poems (not at the same time).
Rosanne Cash talks about her new album, Black Cadillac -- a culmination of working through the tremendous loss she experienced when her father, step-mother, and mother all passed away during an 18-month period. When asked about the Academy Award-winning film Walk the Line, she replied, "Would you want the most painful parts of your childhood done in the Hollywood version?"
The former chief engineer at legendary tech incubator Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) explains why Apple and Microsoft didn't steal from him the ubiquitous point-and-click computer interface - contrary to urban legend. And Brown shares his thoughts on how videogames like "World of Warcraft" cultivate valuable social skills in children.
The columnist and founder of "The Huffington Post" talks with Kurt about the impact blogging has made on politics and journalism. She came on to the pop-political radar with her pajama-clad "strange bedfellows" stunt with Al Franken for Comedy Central during the 1996 election campaign -- she told Kurt, "I'm probably one of the few women you know who actually got a tax deduction for lingerie."
He is the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. And he's also a novelist and Bollywood expert. Tharoor explains the phenomenon of Indian film stars becoming politicians -- and talks frankly about his current candidacy to become Secretary General, replacing Kofi Annan.
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