Malcolm McDowell Talks Clockwork Orange, US Oil Wars In The Big Ugly

ReidOut: MSNBC Host Joy Reid On Taking Over Chris Matthews' Slot, As The Only Black Female Doing Prime Time On Cable TV

** "A Clockwork Orange is a phenomenon, it's 50 years since it opened. Mixing up these tough guys and then having the protagonist love Beethoven - the movie is about the freedom of man to choose, the political aspects of it."

A Conversation With Veteran Actor Malcolm MacDowell. Talking gangsters then and now - from the page to screen 1962 Anthony Burgess novel satirizing the good and evil confounding of his military experience, to Stanley Kubrick's anarchistic comic noir.

And McDowell's current crime thriller The Big Ugly tagged as US imperialism metaphor beyond that West Virginia creek - dredging up oil exploitation gangster capitalism. And the Appalachian rebels rising up to reclaim that land - though the film could have placed them more decisively front and center in the story.

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Talks ReidOut: And taking over disgraced anchor Chris Matthews' slot over at MSNBC - plus what the controversial political commentator in her own right has in mind for the show at this moment in time, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter uprisings.

And, what Reid's perspective will be as the first African American female host right now on prime time cable television. Along with a focus on class, the pandemic, lame ducks, swing states, and single mothers.

** "Oh the way that a bare room can be transformed into a holy space - the oral transmission from teacher to student of the secrets of the art."

Creating A Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy. Jack Shalom takes listeners on a journey through this documentary. Referencing Stanislavski, Zen, mime, Marcel Marceau, The Soviet Union, subplots, and disturbing dreams... 

** "Drug dealers in corporate suits...And the general manipulation of drug culture by those who are not interested in solving the problem - but in profiting from it."

Bro On The Global Television Beat: Serial TV And That Other Global Pandemic - Drugs. Arts Express Paris correspondent Professor Dennis Broe probes the case of three TV series, and their respective drugs du jour.