SAG AMPTP - Actors and Producers Fight Over Residuals; Obama's Energy Appointments; The Audubon Bird Count; Obama Volunteers: What Next?; Our Fickle Affair with the Great Books
SAG AMPTP - Actors and Producers Fight Over Residuals
Hollywood studios are buying ads in trade dailies in the latest volley with the Screen Actors Guild. At the same time a rift has opened between SAG leaders in Los Angeles and New York over the decision to strike. Will there be a strike? What's the future of residuals? Larry gets the latest.
Obama's Energy Appointments
Obama is tapping Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary and Nancy Sutley as chair of Obama's White House Council on Environmental Quality. Sutley is currently Villaraigosa's deputy mayor for energy and environment. Larry gets the latest on Obama's environmental appointments.
The Audubon Bird Count
Between Dec. 14, 2008 and Jan. 5, 2009, thousands of Californians from all walks of life will participate in the 109th annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running wildlife census in the world. The data from these counts will be compiled with others from around the nation and beyond, and will ultimately help Audubon track the progress of imperiled species and gauge the impact of environmental threats to birds and habitat. Larry Mantle talks with bird experts about this event in which Californians transform into volunteer scientists to assess the size of bird populations in local communities throughout the state.
Obama Volunteers: What Next?
The Barack Obama campaign produced a network of some two million registered users. The question now: what next? The campaign scheduled events over the weekend to discuss the future of the national organization and what goals it might seek. Larry gets the details on what they came up with.
Our Fickle Affair with the Great Books
From The Iliad and The Odyssey, to Shakespeare's collection of sonnets, to the musings of Sigmund Freud -- the Great Books of Western Civilization covered all the bases in 54 volumes. In the middle of the 20th century, families were sold on the collection from the joint effort of Encyclopedia Britannica and the University of Chicago. In his new book, "A Great Idea at the Time," author Alex Beam tells the story of the men who put the volumes together and the people who read them. Larry speaks with Beam about why the collection lost popularity after enjoying just a couple decades of rejuvenation.