Peter Guber founded Mandalay Entertainment and Polygram Entertainment. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most people try to pitch him a business deal, not a creative vision.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.” He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words to her work.
Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.
Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.
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