The Con Man covers the waterfront with visits from the photographer behind "Dogs I've Nosed," the Broadway Babes starring in Theatre Aspen's black comedy "Crimes of the Heart," and Jim McWilliams, the Texas State University history professor who wrote "American Pests" covering the ground from colonial times to DDT.
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The Con Man covers the waterfront with visits from the photographer behind "Dogs I've Nosed," the Broadway Babes starring in Theatre Aspen's black comedy "Crimes of the Heart," and Jim McWilliams, the Texas State University history professor who wrote "American Pests" covering the ground from colonial times to DDT.
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The Con Man talks about his meeting with "The Dark Knight" at the multiplex, and his flap with Uma Thurman's father, Professor Robert Thurman of Columbia, about the violence in Quentin Tarantino's movies. Also: handicapping McCain-Obama.
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Can’t think of a better news hook than the Dalai Lama’s visit to Aspen to talk about violence in the movies of Quentin Tarantino. Call me crazy and I’ll zip your head off with the sword I just stole from The Bride.
I’m in the genius camp when it comes to Tarantino, the auteur of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Kill Bill,” and even the lessermost “Jackie Brown,” all with their heavy doses of patter and splatter. But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman’s father came on my “Con Games” radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue.
It turns out Robert Thurman, the author of “Why The Dalai Lama Matters” is not only a professor of Indo-Tibetan matters at Columbia University but also the very first Tibetan monk to come from America: he was ordained as a mendicant in the mid-1960s before he opted out for the more secular life of a scholar. In the bargain he fathered Uma, the actress most associated with Tarantino’s voluminous “Kill Bill” movies, both Volumes I and II.
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Paige Price of Theatre Aspen visits the Con Man to tell about the premier of "Crimes of the Heart" under the tent in Rio Grande Part, and to say what she learned in her first year as artistic director. Then Barry Schochet weighs in on what he sees as the sanguine effects of the Iraq war.
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The Con Man dissects the phenomenon of Obama "The Messiah," then turns his attention to cities and even one state banning trans fats from fast-food menus.
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The Con Man begins with a dissertation and dissection of Barack Obama's sojourn to the Middle East, then comes back in hour two with an interview with Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. Jim Doty, a Dalai Lama believer making the connection between the mind...and compassion and altruism.
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An eclectic mix from the Con Man: Robert Thurman, author of "Why The Dali Lama Matters," the father of actress Uma Thurman; then a rant on City officials blaming him for a rumor; and finally a visit from Aspen Olympian snowboarder Chris Klug, with news of his foundation to promote organ donation.
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The Con Man's open lines open up for sweet crude and Burlingate, then welcomes the man behind the Aspen Film presentation "Dali Llama Renaissance." Batting cleanup: Barry Schochet in the The Schochet Effect on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and all things political.
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The Con Man is apoplectic that the Aspen City Council is misquoting him in its misinformation campaign in support of the Burlingate bond fiasco. Then: Obama's new war platform, political correctness, and the infamous Barack-Michelle New Yorker cover.
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