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Some questions with Jane Lynch…Lynch interviews Amy Poehler Feb 12 at Live Talks Los Angeles @janemarielynch
We’re very much looking forward to our event with Jane Lynch interviewing Amy Poehler on Sunday, February 12 at The Aero Theatre. Event info here. We featured Lynch in conversation with Adam Scott last October when her memoir, Happy Accidents, came out. Hilarious evening. Here’s the video. The image to the left is the poster from the event.
Our event with Amy Poehler and Jane Lynch supports the Adopt the Arts Foundation who’s mission is to bring together well-known artists, public figures, business, and the general public to save the arts in America’s public schools. Adopt the Arts is raising money to keep arts education in public schools in Los Angeles.
We caught up with Jane Lynch to answer some questions…
You recently did a PSA for arts in schools. How did you get involved with supporting arts in schools? What was the arts program like when you were in school?
My daughter goes to a public school in LA and we have a very active parent’s organization to raise the funds needed for art and music programs which the state no longer pays for. Not every public school is able to raise the money so Matt Sorum (Guns and Roses) and others asked me to join a brand new organization called Adopt the Arts to fund these programs to other public schools in LA. My refuge in high school was the hour I spent every day in choir.
What was your favorite TV show when you were in highschool?
My favorite TV show in high school was The Brady Bunch which was actually in re-runs at that time.
What’s your favorite of the Oscar nominated movies?
The Artist, The Iron Lady
What’s a day of relaxation like in Lynch/Embry household?
Playing with our dogs and eating Lara’s fabulous cooking!
Favorite fiction author of all time?
John Irving
What are a couple books you’ve recently read that you really liked?
Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller
The Paleo Solution, Robb WolfWhat book are you looking forward to read?
Geting back to and finishing Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs book which I started over Xmas.
If you could travel back in time to meet any famous person, who would you choose?
Greta Garbo
Abraham Lincoln
Carole King circa 1970
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin FranklinWhich five notable people from history do you think could work together to achieve world peace?
I don’t think any one from the past present or future including Jesus Christ, the Buddha or Ghandi, can make a place peaceful if the people are determined to fight and defend and see “other” and the enemy.
Jason Alexander LIVE in LA 1/25 @livetalksla, see him in @funnyordie video @IJasonAlexander
We host Jason Alexander in conversation with Val Zavala of KCET on January 25th, 8pm. Here’s a video of a new series, he’s hosting on Funny or Die called “The Donny Clay Show,” in which he plays a motivational life coach who refuses to judge his clients. Click here for ticket info.
David Milch’s new series, Luck @HBO — Watch the trailer, See Milch live on Feb 1 at Live Talks LA
Here’s a trailer for the new series on HBO written by David Milch and directed by Michael Mann, starring Dustin Hoffman. We host David Milch on February 1 at Track 16 at Bergamot Station talking about his writing career and the series with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine. Tickets here.
David Milch and HBO’s, Luck, in the news…at Live Talks on Feb 1
We host David Milch at Track 16 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica on Wednesday February 1. Tickets and more info here. He’ll be in conversation with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine.
Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues) is creator and writer of HBO’s new series, Luck, which debuts on January 29th and stars Dustin Hoffman and is directed by Michael Mann.
Hoffman appeared at Live Talks in 2010 interviewing Scott Turow. Here’s the video from that event.
Here are some links of recent articles about David Milch that may be of interest.
* Q&A: David Milch talks William Falkner and his new deal with HBO (Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2011)
* HBO takes a gamble on ‘Luck’ (Los Angeles Times, January 22)
* HBO: Lucky at the racetrack? (USA Today, January 13)
* HBO Takes Its Money to the Track (Wall Street Journal, January 13)
* David Milch Luck Interview — On Deadwood Movie, True Grit and Luck (Esquire, January 14)
* David Milch will tackle William Faulkner’s works for HBO (Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2011)
* David Milch Strikes Deal to Bring Falkner Works to HBO (New York Times, November 30, 2011)
* David Milch and Michael Mann Gamble with Luck (Written By magazine, January 2012)
See you February 1 at Track 16.
May 17 — Pico Iyer in conversation with Lisa Napoli
Thursday, May 17, 2012
7:30pm
Pico Iyer in conversation with Lisa Napoli
The Joy of Quiet: Desperate to Unplug (or coping with the age of always-on)
PURCHASE TICKETS ($20)
Books for sale at the event by both authors.
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
Click here for directions.
Join us for a lively discussion about the impact of the modern era of connectedness on our ability to think, create, and participate in the world.
TV-free resorts. Internet addiction camps. Yoga retreats that promise restoration from our busy lives. In this busy, always-on age, more of us are eager than ever to find ways to disconnect. This winter, Pico Iyer (who has yet to own a cell phone) extolled the virtues of peace and quiet. In the NY Times, he wrote:
“In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them — often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.”
Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard, while officially growing up in Southern California. He is the author of eight works of non-fiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu (cited on many lists of the best travel books ever), The Lady and the Monk (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the category of Current Interest) and The Global Soul (subject of websites and theatrical productions around the world). He has also written the novels Cuba and the Night and Abandon.
For a quarter of a century, he has been an essayist for Time magazine, while also writing constantly on literature for The New York Review of Books, on globalism for Harper’s, and on many other topics for venues from The New York Times to National Geographic. His 2oo8 book, The Open Road, describing more than 30 years of talking and traveling with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, came out in a dozen countries. His most recent book, on Graham Greene, hauntedness and fathers—The Man Within My Head—came out earlier this year.
Lisa Napoli is a journalist and author. She was as reporter and back-up host for public radio show Marketplace. She covered the Internet revolution and the cultural impact of technology as a columnist and staff reporter for the New York Times’ CyberTimes, and as a correspondent for MSNBC. In her 25 year career in media, she has also worked for CNN. She is author of RADIO SHANGRI-LA: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. Presently, she is the local host of NPR’s All Things Considered on KCRW. Visit her website.
June 21 — An Evening with John Irving
Thursday, June 21, 2012
8pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with John Irving
discussing his upcoming novel In One Person
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
($25, $45 includes Irving’s book, $95 includes pre-event reception + book)
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue (at 14th Street)
Santa Monica, CA
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story “Interior Space.” In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules-a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In One Person is John Irving’s thirteenth novel.
“This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny—it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the ’80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients’ deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the other losses—namely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. In One Person is the novel that for me will define that era. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country
“In One Person is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiarities—in a fierce, not a saccharine, way. Now he has extended his sympathies—and ours—still further into areas that even the misfits eschew. Anthropologists say that the interstitial—whatever lies between two familiar opposites—is usually declared either taboo or sacred. John Irving in this magnificent novel—his best and most passionate since The World According to Garp—has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?”
—Edmund White, author of City Boy and Genet: A Biography