Fishko Files
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“Liberace was my babysitter. I have a foggy memory of my mother sitting my sister and me in front of the television so we could watch his program while she did housework. At least I think it’s a valid memory and not a nightmare.” — From a commenter on the new Fishko Files, “Liberace’s Very Extreme Makeover” -
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This happened last night.
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Yesterday was the Woolworth Building’s 100th b-day. Hope it had a great night on the town last night. It was born in our favorite year, after all - 1913. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/fishko/2012/dec/05/
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“Do you know I’m beginning to think you are a very ordinary fellow. You are vain, dishonest, morally lax, you are proud, you are lazy and self-indulgent. Aren’t you really sinking deeper every week into the feather bed of a successful career? Read this again in a week. In another week, again.” — Playwright Clifford Odets, from a February 1940 journal entry. Odets already had a Broadway hit (Awake and Sing!), a Hollywood screen credit (The General Died at Dawn) and his face on the cover of Time Magazine when he wrote this entry. -
“Costume Designers are magicians… ” —Edith head, legendary costume designer
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THE JAZZ LOFT ANTHOLOGY
From 1957 to 1965, the master photographer W. Eugene Smith had a studio and darkroom in a dilapidated building on 6th Avenue north of 28th street in Manhattan. The Jazz Loft, as it became known, had already become a favored spot for jam sessions by hundreds of jazz players of the day. During his years there, Smith became obsessed with the goings-on in the building, musical and otherwise, and he taped and photographed them with an unimaginable thoroughness, capturing thousands of hours of sound as well as tens of thousands of images. The sounds and stories that emerged from those years are the basis for The Jazz Loft Anthology, a ten-part radio series now heard across four one-hour programs.
Hear the whole story of the Jazz Loft years in The Jazz Loft Anthology.
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Fifty one years ago, in the simpler days of television, all three networks aired a tour of the White House led by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, a stunning number of Americans tuned in and took notice.
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“Blue jeans! Sure, the French admire Americans’ blue jeans - that’s easy to do and still patronize us. But not fashion with a capital F.” —- Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks at the First New York Fashion week, which eventually helped American fashions hit a global stage.
#NYFW was created by Eleanor Lambert, a savvy publicist with a passion for - ahem - fashion, during the Second World War. Listen to the full story, below.
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“There was a whole new wave of culture forming, and we wanted our music to be part of it.” — Philip Glass, from An Hour with Philip Glass on WNYC -
Happy birthday, Philip Glass.
Listen to Fishko Files’ 2006 hour-long special: “An Hour with Philip Glass”
In “An Hour With Philip Glass,” the star-composer reflects on the goals and aspirations of his generation of composers. “We felt left out,” says Glass; “there was a whole new wave of culture forming, and we wanted our music to be part of it.” Glass talks with Sara Fishko about his early New York days playing for tiny audiences; his apprenticeship to Ravi Shankar; and about the origins of the style of music that created what he calls a “commotion.”
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/music/2006/jun/01/an-hour-with-philip-glass/
