Writers Strike Update; Should Sheriff Mike Carona Resign; The Losing Caltech Basketball Team; Evangelical Crack-Up?; Mexican Immigration
Writers Strike Update
Larry Mantle checks in with Los Angeles Times staff writer Patric Verrier for an update on contract negotiations between the Hollywood's TV and movie writers and the producers who employ them. The contracts of 12,000 writers expired midnight Wednesday, and guild members have voted to strike Thursday if an agreement isn't reached. A key issue in negotiations involves giving writers more money from the sale of DVDs and the distribution of shows via the internet, cell phones and other digital platforms.
Should Sheriff Mike Carona Resign
Larry Mantle takes listener calls about whether or not Mike Carona should resign his position as Orange County Sheriff due to his recent indictment and yesterday's surrender to authorities.
The Losing Caltech Basketball Team
The new film Quantum Hoops highlights the Caltech basketball team's final week of the 2006 season as they attempt to win one game in the midst of their 21-year losing streak. Larry talks with the film's Writer and Director, Rick Greenwald, as well as Roy Dow, the Caltech Men's Basketball Coach.
Evangelical Crack-Up?
Three years after the 2004 presidential election when evangelical Christians looked like they had one of the most powerful and cohesive voting blocs in America, their leadership is split along generational and theological lines. In his article from Sunday's New York Times Magazine, correspondent David Kirkpatrick analyses what's happened to the unified leadership of the Christian conservative movement, why they aren't unified in their support for a national presidential candidate and why they no longer share the same political beliefs.
Mexican Immigration
In his new book, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds (Pantheon), Gregory Rodriguez provides an in depth account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican Americans will have on the collective character of the United States. Larry talks with Rodriguez about his premise that the rapidly expanding Mexican American integration in to the mainstream is changing not only how Americans think about race but how we envision our nation.