If you had to show the whole world one piece of media to live by, what would it be?
Our guests share one piece of media: a painting, a movie, a work of literature, etc. that they hope everyone could experience. These works feed their soul and tell stories of universal themes and spirit.
Discover their choices below!
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Paul F. Tompkins:
The Royal Shakespeare company’s production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1982)
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Jacke Wilson:
Purple Rain by Prince
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Anna Deavere Smith:
Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
(sometimes nature becomes art)
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Hari Kondabolu
Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
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Patricia Heaton:
On The Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
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Ken Burns:
The Music of Louis Armstrong
(Among many other works of art)
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Tim Gunn:
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Flemming)
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Ana Marie Cox:
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis [Books Series]
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Susie Essman:
The humor of Gilbert Gottfried
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Larry Wilmore:
Animal Crackers (Heerman, 1930)
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Sam Harris:
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
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Robert Costa:
The music of Ray Charles
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Rabbi Steve Leder:
Talmudic discussion of The Ten Plagues
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Special Episode
God is the Bigger Elvis (Rebecca Cammisa, 2012)
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Julia Sweeney
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
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Erick Erickson
Patton (Schaffner, 1970)
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Rainn Wilson
“Soul Boom” by Rainn Wilson
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Killer Mike
“The Runis of Empires” by C.F. Volney
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Charlie Sykes
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Michael Patrick King
Pietà Sculpture by Michelangelo in Rome
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Stephen Mitchell
“War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
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Yvonne Orji
“Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams” by Yvonne Orji
