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Orpheus
Rock star marries the love of his life. She’s killed. He goes to hell to get her back --- and fails. This week in Studio 360, Kurt Andersen and his guest Mary Zimmerman look at the myth of Orpheus and why it’s never gone out of style.

Eurydice Speaks
Playwright Sarah Ruhl always wondered how Eurydice experienced her death, what she really thought of her lover Orpheus and who she met in the underworld. Audiences in San Francisco discovered surprising answers to Ruhl’s questions when her play, Eurydice, premiered in 2003. Ruhl told Sarah Lilley how she imagined the young woman’s afterlife.
Go to the site of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Eurydice
Read a bio of Sarah Ruhl

To Hell And Back
The dark and sleek but dangerously sexy world of film noir conjures a very modern vision of the underworld. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to two film critics who see Orpheus in Jimmy Stewart, and a robot.
Read Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
More about Sheril Antonio
Purchase Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Disco Orpheus
There’s one movie about Orpheus that hasn’t made it onto anyone’s Top 10 List. In fact, the few people who saw it on the big screen in 1980 probably forgot about it as quickly as possible -- or tried to. But a cult following grew around “The Apple,” a glitter-speckled disco opera in which a naive power-ballad singing couple sign a record contract with the devil. Critic Douglas Wolk gives us a tour of the movie from hell.
Check out some stills from deleted scenes from "The Apple"
Read a plot summary with some more stills
Read a review of "The Apple"
Purchase The Apple

More Orpheus Discussion

SPECIAL GUEST
Mary Zimmerman
Playwright and theater director Mary Zimmerman is one of the great modern interpreters of ancient myth. Her plays include The Metamorphoses, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Direction, as well as The Odyssey, The Arabian Nights, and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. She teaches at Northwestern University and is resident director at Chicago's Goodman Theater. In 1988 Zimmerman received a MacArthur Foundation grant.
Purchase Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses: A Play
Purchase Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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Design for the Real World
I Heart The Bahamas
Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who invented the “I Love NY” symbol, explains why he thinks the new logo for the Bahamas works wonders.
Duffy & Partners, Bahamas Logo designers
Check out the islands of the Bahamas
Go to Milton Glaser Inc.
Go to Fallon Worldwide

Terminal Five
You might know the Jetsons-like curvy concrete and glass structure of TWA’s Terminal 5 at JFK from the movie Catch Me If You Can. When the abandoned terminal was recently declared a landmark building, Kurt Andersen and architecture critic Alastair Gordon took a trip to the airport to admire this icon of mid-century modernism --- and pay a visit to its beautiful but very different sister, Terminal 6.
Visit I.M. Pei’s Terminal 6 online
Visit Eero Saarinen Terminal 5
Visit the Naked Airport Website
Purchase Alastair Gordon’s Naked Airport

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