Studio 360: Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience

November 23, 2007

Haynes on Dylan

Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime concocting the mythology of Bob Dylan. Now the filmmaker Todd Haynes is adding another layer. In I’m Not There he splits Dylan into six different characters, played by six different actors. Haynes told Kurt it was the only way to tackle Dylan (and Dylan himself agrees).

SLIDESHOW: Stills from I'm Not There

Josh Ritter

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was a teenager in Moscow, Idaho, when he discovered the album Nashville Skyline in his parents’ record collection. The song that hit him hard was “Girl from the North Country,” Dylan’s duet with Johnny Cash. But it’s “Po Boy,” off Dylan’s 2001 album Love and Theft, that means the most to Ritter now.

Bonus Track: "Best for the Best"

Josh Ritter performs "Best for the Best" live in Studio 360.

Proust was a Neuroscientist

Science writer Jonah Lehrer is just 26, but he’s already worked as a line cook at Le Cirque and in the lab of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Lehrer looks at the surprising ways artists like Paul Cezanne and Walt Whitman had insights into neurological concepts that scientists have taken years to prove. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

To Be or Not To Be Burton

For 10 years, the actor Scott Shepherd dreamed of playing Hamlet. He got his chance in a highly experimental “duet,” reciting Richard Burton’s lines, and moving Burton’s moves, while the 1964 film plays behind him. But he doesn’t like his co-star. Produced by Jenny Lawton.

SLIDESHOW: The Wooster Group's Hamlet

Design for the Real World:
Tea bag

Tea historian Jane Pettigrew explains why the world has never recovered from an American innovation. Produced by Deanna Kashani.

Studio 360

Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience