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Sunday Profile: John Mellencamp
Jane Pauley profiles the rocker and fellow Hoosier who has just released his 23rd studio album, “Sad Clowns & Hillbillies.” John Mellencamp explains why he is driven to make music, and talks…
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Author David Foster Wallace on Ambition and Perfectionism
“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” – David Foster Wallace Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC March 4, 1996 Interview originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/1996… Executive Producer: David Gerlach Animator: Patrick Smith
George Jones’ RV
Country singer George Jones gives a tour of the RV that he and his wife enjoyed traveling in circa 2006.
Fugazi: Live in Washington D.C. at Malcolm X Park
1991 concert by Fugazi to protest the Gulf War.
John Cale Interviewed in Australia Talks About Finding Jonathan Richman
Plus John Cale Sings ‘Chinese Envoy.’
The Case of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald: Convicted of Murdering His Family. But Did He Do It?
In the annals of modern-day crime and punishment, few cases have been more gruesome or more controversial than that of convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. And now, after many years, Rita Braver reports how filmmaker Errol Morris is reopening the case…