Conflicts Of Interest On The Supreme Court; How To Fight The Good Fight; FilmWeek
Conflicts Of Interest On The Supreme Court
Larry talks with judicial experts about possible conflicts of interest raised recently by reports that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has taken hunting trips with Vice President Dick Cheney and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lent her name and presence to a series of lectures cosponsored by NOW. The code of conduct for the federal courts warns jurists to steer clear of outside legal activities jeopardize impartiality but does not set clear rules for judges’ involvement. Larry talks with John Eastman, Professor of Constitutional Law at Chapman University and Director of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, and Richard Painter, the Guy Raymond and Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law.
How To Fight The Good Fight
The “First Lady of Boxing” and inspiration for the new movie “Against the Ropes,” Jackie Kallen joins Larry to talk about her career as the world’s most successful female boxing manager and to discuss her book Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Fight Plan for Dealing With All of Life’s Hard Knocks, in which she shares how boxing techniques can be applied to solve life’s various dilemmas.
FilmWeek
Larry Mantle and critics Jean Oppenheimer of New Times and Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic of both CityBeat and ValleyBeat discuss this week's new film releases, including Secret Window, Spartan, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Broken Wings, Robot Stories, Lost Boys of Sudan, The Same River Twice, and How to Draw a Bunny.
Larry and the critics also review Spotlight on Luis Buñuel and Silvia Pinal at LACMA and both the Lars Von Trier Retrospective and The Stranger and It's All True both based on unfinished films By Orson Welles at the Egyptian Theatre, hosted by the American Cinematheque.