L-Word Creator tells CyberFrequency how she adapted to social media ... RH Greene on films and memories of Eastern Europe ... Tom Hanks on public radio, "Larry Crowne," and "Philadelphia" ... Charlie LeDuff on Fathers Day ... Larry Mantle talks radio with John.
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Tom Hanks has been a big KPCC supporter for years, and gladly agreed to attend a KPCC donor event on the West Side this week to show his love of the station. He also agreed to let me interview him at the event. The only thing we kept off-limits -- in a wide ranging interview about World War Two, Abe Lincoln, "Philadelphia," and the extent to which KPCC invades his checkbook -- were the shooting locations for his upcoming movie, "Larry Crowne," starring Hanks and featuring another KPCC supporter, George Takei.
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Filmmaker RH Greene -- who wrote a memoir for Dracula in Roumania -- is one of the programmers of the LA Film Festival, which runs June 17-27 at an array of venues. His focus: the films of Eastern Europe, which align with his sometimes misty memories of the region, from villagers with baskets of vegetables to a cynical, weeping Russian actress.
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• 7:54
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie LeDuff gave up his jet-set life to become a stay-at-home dad. "I find myself staring into the rearview mirror of my career."
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• 2:18
Commentator Jeff Girod is fed up with nosy people who ask him and his wife, "When are you going to have a baby?"
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• 7:51
CyberFrequencies -- Off-Ramp's look at life on the web -- talks with Ilene Chaiken, the creator of "The L-Word" and "The Real L-Word" about the changing face of television, fan involvement, and dumping the old paradigms.