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Dinner Party Download: Where Anatomy meets Astronomy
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Dan Carino
)
Mar 28, 2009
Dinner Party Download: Where Anatomy meets Astronomy
On this full-length episode: Rocker Benjy Ferree's ode to Peter Pan...We discover the planet that dares not speak its name...and Rico sharpens his conversation skills with Brooklyn's new king of cutlery. For the uninitiated: Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. You're always invited.
Dinner Party Download hosts Rico Gagliano (upper right) and Brendan Newnam (lower left, back to camera) fete Norma Shearer at a dinner party at the Biltmore in 1936.
Dinner Party Download hosts Rico Gagliano (upper right) and Brendan Newnam (lower left, back to camera) fete Norma Shearer at a dinner party at the Biltmore in 1936.
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L.A. Public Library/Herald-Examiner collection
)

On this full-length episode: Rocker Benjy Ferree's ode to Peter Pan...We discover the planet that dares not speak its name...and Rico sharpens his conversation skills with Brooklyn's new king of cutlery. For the uninitiated: Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. You're always invited.

On this full-length episode: Rocker Benjy Ferree's ode to Peter Pan...We discover the planet that dares not speak its name...and Rico sharpens his conversation skills with Brooklyn's new king of cutlery.

For the uninitiated: Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. You're always invited.