E-Essays and Art: Political and Social Commentary by Terry Bailey

Part One: Charlie Rose and the Principle of Information as Mirror and Dynamo particularly as it pertains to the lives and influence of women in the U.S.
by Terry Bailey
(see webArt below the essay)

This essay was written when I suddenly realized one night how few women Charlie Rose has as guests on his show. How could I have watched for so many years and not noticed? The depth of sexism in our society is clearly evidenced by my own oversight until that moment. Even I, a lifelong feminist, had missed it. I began to track the number and to create web art of it: between January 29, 2005 and May 30, 2007, Charlie had 229 women guests for 1303 men guests and 2 male dogs on his nightly program. After nearly 2 and a half years of tracking, I finally stopped. The case in support of the inequities of women in the media as demonstrated by Rose's guest list was crystal clear by then. It was time for me to move on. To publicize this and to write more.

Essay: If we call ourselves "citizens," we will define ourselves as a nation of citizens, and hold in high regard those who participate in our democratic governance. If we call ourselves "consumers," we will shop, and gauge ourselves and our nation daily by our consumption, by the consumption of those around us, and by the consumption of the nation as a whole. If we turn on the TV or open the newspaper each day and see primarily stories of war and political struggles for power, we cannot help but see and define ourselves as warriors and crusaders, as residents of a "war torn world," as human beings living lives defined by war and politics, in a world defined by war and politics. We create our world and ourselves out of the words we choose to define ourselves and out of the images we see of ourselves. We therefore must take great care as to what we call ourselves and what we choose to display and observe of ourselves.

If we talk about cooking every day on TV, our society will define itself as one of food and cooks and eaters. If we talk about sewing and education and childcare and health, our society will define itself based on those topics, it will hold those issues in high regard. If everyone tunes in to hear artists every day, art will be a defining societal force; people will go to galleries and museums to look at art, and spend their money on art making supplies and art classes, travel to see art, and join art discussion groups. Likewise if all of us turned on the television and found authors being interviewed daily, books and the knowledge found therein would hold great influence on our world and preoccupy the thoughts of most.

Certainly, the specific books and art and education concepts and food cultures we view need to have the broadest base possible if they are to serve any intended purpose of broadening minds and providing as much knowledge as possible. Books written by men only, art by men only, food of only a few nations, educational theories of only a handful of "experts" do not serve to expand the opportunities of thought and theory of the population audience as a whole.

If the speakers of our society, those we see and listen to, are women, we will hold the values of women on high and we will value women. If we most frequently turn to men for advice, for commentary, for topics of interest, we will define ourselves as a society of men, and male values. What we watch on TV serves to mirror our world - what exists in our society - it also serves the dynamo effect of defining and determining both the state and the evolution of our society.

Suddenly this really matters to me. Suddenly I am sick to death of war and war talk. Suddenly I am thinking what a different world this would be if we all sat around listening to serious, intelligent women talk about things that matter to us, listening to the opinions of women on the subjects of governance and science and literature and education and art and beauty and values. Suddenly I don’t care to listen to men talk about how they succeed in business or at war or at sports. Suddenly I want to hear women tell me how they made that quilt and what is their favorite tea, and what they would do if they could run the world, and what book they read that interested them, and what they might like to read about if they could request books to be written on topics of interest to them, and what movies they would like to see made. and what their jobs are like, and if they are getting by okay, or if not and why, and what their mothers taught them and how they feel living in a patriarchy where recent studies show that they only earn sixty-one cents to the dollar earned by men, down from the "high" of seventy cents to the dollar they were earning when the new women's movement arose in the 1970s, and where 30 percent of them are still raped and battered, and where most of them still don’t have equal rights with men anywhere, and whom they would choose to listen to at Charlie Rose’s table if they could select all the guests for one month.

Then I thought how difficult it would be to get Charlie Rose to let women select the guests for a month, because he would worry that the world would stop if he failed to discuss the latest war happening or sports happening or political upheaval. And then I thought how different the world might be if Charlie Rose took a chance and let women pick the guests for a month - if that dynamo effect might start making major changes in our world if he mirrored women and women’s values for a month.

Nowhere is the marginilizing of women in our country more evident than in a quick perusal of Charlie Rose's guest list over a period of time (see below). Nowhere is the existence of the patriarchy (which so many continue to deny) more evident than in a viewing of that guest list. Not only are the women guests few and far between (averaging about 12%), but an overview of those women also says a great deal: most are blonde, the largest group are actresses, only a handful could be considered to be working in fields of specific interest to the values, goals amd needs of women. Once you eliminate the actresses, gossip columnist, and women writers who are on the show to talk about male leaders, male corporate executives, male territorialism (i.e. most wars), the list of women of distinction, women artists and thinkers, and women "movers and shakers", if you will, is scant.

Some days I imagine what will happen if the men blow up this world with the new little smart mini go-anywhere nuclear bombs our modern warriors are working so hard to develop right now. Maybe in zillions of years, when the half lives of al the plutonium and other bomb making materials is up, and the world is reborn, it will be reborn and recreated from the ashes as a beautiful peaceful cooperative women’s and gentleMen's values planet, instead of what the ruling warrior men have created this time around. And the new residents of Earth will ponder how to care for the planet, rather than how to own a piece of it. And the movers and shakers and world definers will sit around Agnes Rose’s table and ponder how they might keep the lakes and rivers pure, and what beautiful art they had seen that day in a friend’s home, and what art and literature should they teach in the schools, and what space exploration or physics study they should spend their tax money on next year, and about the beautiful music concert their children had performed the night before, and what new child rearing and educational theories they have developed, and which culture’s cuisine should they present at the next gathering of the tribes, and who has cured that new disease that appeared from the earth's soil last month, and how they have determined that low-to-the-ground architecture infused with flora and fauna is far more humanly satisfying than power-centric skyscrapers, and where the funding will come from to open a new hospital, and who has discovered a new species of butterfly, and who created a new hybrid rose.

A humane and egalitarian world, grounded in peace and respect, may be way out of my very limited control, and yet, like all others who have heard the activist call, I arise every morning, don my woman peaceful warrior attitude, and prepare to do what small task for world improvement I am able accomplish that day. Because one must always hope.

Terry Bailey , January 2005

Terry Bailey is a digital new media artist and author of
Light 1.0 - an interactive multimedia novel with music. You can subscribe to a podcast of Light 1.0
on iTunes at Podcasts:Arts:Literature:Light 1.0. where Terry is publishing the book one chapter at a time.

Click here for iTunes link to Light 1.0 (you must have iTunes installed on your computer).

Terry is currently writing her second interactive book - Kaleidoscope Girl.

Blogging Notes: Some interesting statistics: Martha Raddatz has appeared eight times. Christiane Amanpour, and Jane Fonda have appeared four times. Nina Totenberg, Ariana Huffington, Linda Greenhouse, Natasha Richardson, Ana Marie Cox and Nora Ephrom have appeared 3 times. 19 women, Erica Wagner, Elizabeth Bumiller, the cast of Doubt (Jones, Lenox and Goldenhersch), Lauren Bacall, Jessica Lange, Jill Abramson, Diane Keaton, Suzy Welch, Mimi Valdes, Doris Goodwin, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Jessica Mathews, Patricial Williams, Judi Dench, and R. Dergham - have appeared twice - the 28 of them account for 72 of the women guests. 118 of the women guests are blonde; 32% of women guests have been actresses (6% of men guests have been actors). In the two week period between June 21 and July 1, 2005 Nina Totenberg was the only woman to appear, and she appeared twice. On July 1, Nina Totenberg was the only woman Charlie had on his show to discuss the resignation of the first woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Conner; on that show he had five men to discuss the event; then on July 19, he scheduled five men, no women, to discuss Bush's announced replacement. For the two weeks between July 18 and Aug. 2, 2005 there were no women guests on the show. It was more than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and left tens of thousands, mostly poor and people of color, homeless, that Charlie addressed the topic on his show, Sept 6. On February 6, 2006, Charlie hosted a show about Wendy Wasserstein, one of the greatest women writers and feminists of the last decades - and the discussion of her life included four men including Charlie, and only one woman. Charlie was away from show after 3-29-06 due to heart surgery. Shows during this time included guest hosts selected by his staff. The ratio of women to men went up significantly during Charlie's absence! As high as 24%, and averaging 19% - a significant improvement to Charlie's usual average of 12% women since I began this count. Around Saturday Oct 7, I finally wrote to Charlie about the dismal record of his regarding women guests, and referred him to this web site; I wanted to compile irrefutable proof before I told him about my study and social art here. I did not hear back from him, though after that, his numbers rose significantly for several weeks, then, sadly, began a steady decline again to his usual average. Coincidence? Who knows? During that same period, n Monday, October 23, Charlie's guests included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, announcing their new Media Center Project and their new women's radio network; how ironic indeed, that the women were there to discuss the under-representation of women in the media - both as hosts and as guests! They gave the sad statistics, but I was sorry there was no mention of Charlie’s culpability in this arena!

Friday 1-28-05
A rebroadcast of an hour with PAUL NURSE, President, The Rockefeller University

Monday 1-31-05
Discussion of Iraq election
JOHN F. BURNS, The New York Times
DAN RATHER, Anchor, CBS Evening News
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times
AHMAD CHALABI, Co-Founder, Iraqi National Congress
ANDERSON COOPER, Host, CNN Anderson Cooper 360
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights, JFK School of Government, Harvard University

Tues 2-1-05
GHAZI AL-YAWAR, Interim President of Iraq
MALCOLM GLADWELL, Author, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Wed 2-2-05
LIVE COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS with DAVID GERGEN, JFK School of Government, Harvard University and JAMES FALLOWS, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly and DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, The New York Times and MICHAEL DUFFY, Washington Bureau Chief, Time and DAVID SANGER, White House Correspondent, The New York Times and
ELISABETH BUMILLER, White House Correspondent, The New York Times

and MARK HALPERIN, Political Director, ABC News
Thursday 2-3-05
A discussion about Mahmoud Abbas with
DAVID REMNICK, Editor, The New Yorker
THIERRY BRETON, CEO, France Telecom
A Superbowl Preview with JIM NANTZ of CBS Sports

Friday 2-4-05
An hour with LEONARDO DiCAPRIO, Actor, "The Aviator"

Monday 2-7-05
Grammy nominee KANYE WEST
and a preview of the Grammy Awards
MIMI VALDÉS, Editor-In-Chief, Vibe

JON PARELES, The New York Times
DOUG BROD, Executive Editor, Spin

Tuesday 2-8-05
A discussion about the Middle East Summit with
NATAN SHARANSKY, Government Minister, Israel / Author, "The Case for Democracy"
NABIL FAHMY, Egypt’s Ambassador to the United States
ALSO ”Arrested Development”
JASON BATEMAN, Actor
BRIAN GRAZER & RON HOWARD, Executive Producers
MITCHELL HURWITZ, Creator / Head Writer

Wednesday 2-9-05
DENNIS HASTERT (R-IL), Speaker of the House of Representatives
and JOHN SZARKOWSKI, Photographer

Thursday 2-10-05
EDWARD KENNEDY, SENATOR (D-MA)
AND AN APPRECIATION OF OSSIE DAVIS

Friday 2-11-05
JEFFREY IMMELT,Chairman of the Board & CEO, General Electric Company
AN APPRECIATION OF ARTHUR MILLER
JOSEPH W. POLISI, President, The Juilliard School

Monday 2-14-05
ROBERT PARKER, Wine Critic
OREN JACOBY, Director / Producer, "Sister Rose’s Passion"

Tuesday 2-15-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT BLOGS with GLENN REYNOLDS, University of Tennessee, Editor, Instapundit.com
ANA MARIE COX, Editor, Wonkette.com

ANDREW SULLIVAN, Senior Editor, The New Republic Andrewsullivan.com
JOE TRIPPI, Former Campaign Manager for Howard Dean and Author, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" / Joetrippi.com

Wednesday 2-16-05
PHILIP H. GORDON, Director, Center on the United States and Europe & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
JAMES B. STEWART, Author, "Disney War"

Thursday 2-17-05
RENZO PIANO, Architect

Friday 2-18-05
An Appreciation of ARTHUR MILLER

Monday 2-21-05
AHMET ERTEGUN
Founding Chairman, Atlantic Records

Tuesday 2-22-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING HARVARD PRESIDENT LAWRENCE SUMMERS WITH: DAVID GERGEN, Director, The Center for Public Leadership, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
LAUREN A.E. SCHUKER, President, The Harvard Crimson

Tuesday 2-23-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CIA LEAK PROBE WITH:
JUDITH MILLER, The New York Times

and MATTHEW COOPER, Time
"DOWNFALL"
OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL, Director
KURT MASUR, Music Director, Orchestre National de France
BRUNO GANZ, Actor, “Downfall”
Wednesday 2-23-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT PRESIDENT BUSH’S TRIP TO EUROPE with WOLFGANG ISCHINGER. Germany’s Ambassador to the United States
JIM HOAGLAND, The Washington Post
TERRY MORAN, ABC News
and RAYMOND GILMARTIN, Chairman, President & CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.

Thursday 2-24-05
KURT MASUR, Music Director, Orchestre National de France
JOHN SLOSS, Founder and Owner, Cinetic Media
JONATHAN TISCH,Chairman & CEO, Loews Hotels & Author, "The Power of We"

Friday 2-25-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WITH
JIM ROGERS, Author, “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World’s Best Market” and Founder, Rogers International Raw Materials Fund
and AN APPRECIATION OF
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Monday 2-28-05
KEN AULETTA, The New Yorker
LORIN MAAZEL, Conductor, New York Philharmonic
JULIETTE BINOCHE, Actor, "In My Country"


Tuesday 3-01-05
JERRY YANG, Co-founder, Chief Yahoo and Director, Yahoo!
AN APPRECIATION OF HENRY GRUNWALD, Former Editor, Time magazine, Former US Ambassador to
Austria

Wednesday 3-02-05
An Hour With STEPHEN SCHWARZMAN, Chairman, CEO & Co-founder, The Blackstone Group at Harvard Business School

Thursday 3-03-05
JASON DEPARLE, The New York Times, Author, "American Dream: Three Women,
Ten Kids, and a Nation’sDrive to End Welfare"
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, Former EPA Administrator / Former Governor of New Jersey, Author, "It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America"

DAVID GRANGER, Editor-in-Chief, Esquire

Friday 3-04-05
A REBROADCAST OF AN HOUR WITH
CLINT EASTWOOD
Director / Actor, "Million Dollar Baby"

Monday 3-07-05
VALÉRY GISCARD D’ESTAING
Former President of France
JOAN ALLEN, Actor, "The Upside of Anger"


Tuesday 3-08-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT BUSH’S SPEECH AND THE CHANGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH FOUAD AJAMI, Johns Hopkins University, US News & World Report
ROGER COHEN, Columnist, International Herald Tribune
ALSO MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Columbia University; Author, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror"
and MIKE BINDER, Actor / Writer / Director, "The Upside of Anger"

Wednesday 3-09-05
A REBROADCAST OF AN HOUR WITH
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER
MORGAN FREEMAN, Actor, "Million Dollar Baby"

Thursday 3-10-05
JOE KLEIN, Time
ZALMAY KHALILZAD, US Ambassador to Afghanistan
ZANA BRISKI & ROSS KAUFFMAN, Directors of the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Born into Brothels"


Friday 3-11-05
MICHAEL POWELL, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
PATRICK BYRNE, Chairman of the Board, Overstock.com

Monday 3-14-05
RAMSEY CLARK, Former US Attorney General
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, Playwright, "Doubt"

Tuesday 3-15-05
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GUILTY VERDICTS IN THE BERNARD EBBERS TRIAL WITH
KEN BELSON, The New York Times
THE NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WITH
JOHN FEINSTEIN, Sportswriter / Author, "The Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery"
EDOUARD MICHELINCEO, Michelin
AMI AYALON, Former Chief of Israel’s Internal Security Service, Shin Bet

Wednesday 3-16-05
A REPORT ON THE PRESIDENT’S PRESS CONFERENCE WITH
ELISABETH BUMILLER, The New York Times

CHARLES HAGEL, Senator (R-NE)
AND A DISCUSSION ABOUT OIL AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES WITH
VIJAY VAITHEESWARAN, "The Economist" / Author, "Power to the People"
DANIEL YERGIN, Chairman & Co-founder, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Thursday, March 17, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON STEROID USE IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WITH MITCH ALBOM, Detroit Free Press and Host, "The Mitch Albom Show"
KURT EICHENWALD, The New York Times and Author, "Conspiracy of Fools"

Friday, March 18, 2005
PETER WHYBROW, M.D., Director, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA; Author, "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough"
ROBERT GOTTLIEB, Author, "George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker"
TERENCE WARD, Author, "Searching For Hassan"

Monday, March 21, 2005
R.W. APPLE, JR., Associate Editor, The New York Times; Author, "Apple’s America"
And AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCHIAVO CASE WITH
REP. DAVID DREIER (R) California
LAURENCE TRIBE, Professor of constitutional law, Harvard

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
"The Ballad of Jack and Rose"
REBECCA MILLER, Filmmaker

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, Actor

Wednesday March 23, 2005
JONATHAN KLEIN, President CNN/U.S
SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, The American University, Cairo; Chairman, Ibn Khaldoun Center

Thurssday March 24, 2005
ANDREW CARD, White House Chief of Staff
AN APPRECIATION OF GEORGE F. KENNAN

Friday March 25, 2005
GARRY KASPAROV, Chess Grandmaster
KISHORE MAHBUBANI, Author, "Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World"
AN APPRECIATION OF BOBBY SHORT

Monday, March 28, 2005
JAN EGELAND, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations
CLIVE OWEN, Actor, "Sin City"

Tuesday March 29, 2005
PHILIP SHORT, Author, "Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare"
HAU THAI-TANG, Director, Advanced Product Creation, Ford; Chief Engineer, 2005 Mustang
ERNESTINE BRADLEY, Author, "The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life"


Wednesday, March 30, 2005
IAN McEWAN, Author, “Saturday”
THOMAS KELLER, Chef/Owner, “Per Se”

Thursday, March 31. 2005
DAVID WESTIN, President, ABC News
and AN APPRECIATION OF JOHNNIE COCHRAN

Friday April 1, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FAILING HEALTH
AND THE LEGACY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II WITH
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, Chief International Correspondent, CNN (via Vatican City)

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, Newsweek (via Vatican City)
CHESTER GILLIS, Chair, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University
VERY REVEREND DAVID M. O’CONNELL, President, The Catholic University of America
FRANCIS FIORENZA, Harvard Divinity School
JON MEACHAM, Managing Editor, Newsweek

Monday, April 4, 2004
DAVID BOIES, Attorney / Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY, Philosopher / Journalist / Author

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Author, "The World Is Flat"' Columnist, The New York Times

Wednesday, April 6, 05
JACK WELCH, Former CEO of General Electric
SUZY WELCH, Former Editor, Harvard Business Review
Authors, "Winning"


Thursday, April 7
JANE FONDA, Actress / Author, "My Life So Far"

JOSEPH LELYVELD, Former Executive Editor, The New York Times; Author, "Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop"

Friday, April 8
SHIMON PERES, Vice Prime Minister, Israel
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUNERAL OF
POPE JOHN PAUL II WITH:
BILL BLAKEMORE, ABC News
ALESSIO VINCI, CNN Rome Bureau Chief
FATHER WALTER MODRYS, St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York
FATHER JOSEPH KOTERSKI, Fordham University

Monday April 11, 2005
ASHRAF QAZI, US Special Representative to Iraq
JUAN COLE, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Blogger, Informed Comment
LAUREN BACALL, Actress & Author, "By Myself and Then Some"


Tuesday April 12, 2005
JAMES CARVILLE, Political Strategist / CNN Host / Author
JAMES LEVINE, Music Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday April 13, 2005
BOB DOLE, Former Senator (R-KS); Author, "One Soldier’s Story"

Thursday April 14, 2005
HENRY KISSINGER, Former US Secretary of State
"HURLYBURLY" - ETHAN HAWKE, Actor
DAVID RABE, Playwright

Friday April 15, 2005
JOHN HENNESSY, President of Stanford University
JESSICA LANGE, Actress, "The Glass Menagerie"


Monday April 18, 2005
THIERRY BRETON, Finance Minister, France
JOHN MAJOR, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Tuesday April 19. 2005
AMITABH BACHCHAN, Actor
THE ELECTION OF POPE BENEDICT XVI with
MONSIGNOR LORENZO ALBACETE
Professor of Theology, St. Joseph’s Seminary

Wednesday April 20, 2005
NANCY SODERBERG, Author, "The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might"

ROMEO DALLAIRE, Author, "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" ; Carr Center for Human Rights, JFK School of Government Former UN Force Commander, Rwanda

Thursday April 21, 2005
SYDNEY POLLACK, Filmmaker, "The Interpreter"
MITCHELL BAKER, President, The Mozilla Foundation


Friday April 22, 2005
Basketball Legends, KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, BILL RUSSELL, JULIUS ERVING
The Cast of "Doubt"
BRIAN O’BYRNE
CHERRY JONES, ADRIANE LENOX, HEATHER GOLDENHERSH


Monday April 25, 2005
DEXTER FILKINS, The New York Times
"Ladies in Lavender"
MAGGIE SMITH, Actress & JUDI DENCH, Actress


Tuesday April 26, 2005
MIKE NICHOLS, Director, "Spamalot"

Wednesday April 27, 2005
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Columnist, The New York Times; Author, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century"

Thursday April 27, 2005
LIVE COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BUSH’S PRESS CONFERENCE WITH: GUEST HOST RON INSANA, Anchor, CNBC’s "Street Signs" NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Institute DAVID SANGER, The New York Times TERRY MORAN, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
SHARON WAXMAN, Author, "Rebels on the Backlot"


Friday, April 29, 2005
LAURENT FABIUS, Former Prime Minister, France
WITH GUEST HOST ROGER COHEN, International Writer-At-Large, The New York Times and Author, "Soldiers and Slaves"
ALSO ELLIOT GREENEBAUM, Filmmaker, "Assisted Living"
and LEONIE FRIEDA, Author, "Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France"


Monday May 2, 2005
DAVID SANGER, White House Correspondent, The New York Times
DON CHEADLE, Actor, "Crash"

Tuesday May 3, 2005
RAMI KHOURI. Editor-At-Large, The Daily Star
and ARNOLD VOSLOO, Actor, "24"

Wednesday May 4, 2005
KAMAL KHARRAZI, Foreign Minister, Iran
AND A CONVERSATION ABOUT OIL WITH
NANCY BIRDSALL, President, Center for Global Development

ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund

Thursday, May 5, 2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency
FLOYD ABRAMS, Author, "Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment"

Friday May 6 2005
A discussion about the UK Elections with:NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT, New York Bureau Chief, The Times of London and PHILIP STEPHENS, Associate Editor, Financial Times / Author, "Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader." ALAN COWELL, The New York Times
and RIDLEY SCOTT, Director, "Kingdom of Heaven"

Monday May 9. 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT PRESIDENT BUSH’S TRIP TO RUSSIA with MICHAEL McFAUL, Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityCarnegie Endowment for International Peace
STEPHEN SESTANOVICH, Former US Ambassador to Russia
JEFFREY SACHS, Author, "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time"
LIZ SMITH, Gossip Columnist / Author, "Dishing: Great Dish - and Dishes - from America’s Most Beloved Gossip Columnist"


Tuesday May 10, 2005
SIR JEREMY GREENSTOCK, Former UK Ambassador to the United Nations and DR. MEHMET OZ, Surgeon / Co-Author, "You: The Owner’s Manual" and DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN, Physician, The Cleveland Clinic

Wednesday May 11, 2005
ROBERT PLANT, Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter
BILLY CRUDUP, Actor, "The Pillowman"

Thursday May 12, 2005
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR., Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Friday, May 13, 2005
LES GELB , President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
CHRIS FERGUSON, Champion, 2000 World Series of Poker
AN APPRECIATION OF LLOYD CUTLER, Former White House Counsel for Presidents Carter and Clinton

Monday May 16, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE NEWSWEEK CONTROVERSY
AND THE VIOLENT CONSEQUENCES WITH
DANIEL KLAIDMAN, Washington Bureau Chief, Newsweek
SHIBLEY TELHAMI, University of Maryland / Brookings Institution
ROGER COHEN, The New York Times and Author, "Soldiers and Slaves"
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, The Huffington Post


Tuesday, May 17, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT GEORGE GALLOWAY’S
TESTIMONY BEFORE A SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE with
WARREN HOGE, The New York Times
ADAM ZAGORIN, Time
GEORGE GALLOWAY , British MP
ALEXANDER TSIARAS, President & CEO, Anatomical Travelogueand Author, "The Architecture & Design of Man & Woman"

Wednesday May 18, 2005
AUGUST WILSON, Playwright, "Radio Golf"
STEVEN ROBERTS, Author, "My Fathers’ Houses: Memoir of a Family"
ABRAHAM GEORGE, Founder, The George Foundation & Shanti Bhavan; Author, "India Untouched"

Thursday May 19, 2005
A REBROADCAST OF AN HOUR WITH FILMMAKER GEORGE LUCAS

Friday May 20, 2005
AN HOUR ON THE SET OF "24" WITH: KIEFER SUTHERLAND, Actor / Executive Producer; Co-Creators JOEL SURNOW & ROBERT COCHRAN; Actors CARLOS BERNARD, KIM RAVER

ARNOLD VOSLOO

Monday May 23, 2005
AN HOUR WITH MICHAEL ISIKOFF, Newsweek

Tuesday May 24, 2005
JAMES WOLFENSOHN, President, The World Bank
TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST 100 FILMS, WITH CRITICS
RICHARD CORLISS and RICHARD SCHICKEL

Wednesday May 25, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT INTERNET SECURITY WITH JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times and MARK RASCH, Senior Vice President, Solutionary Founder of the Computer Crime Unit, Justice Department
ALSO DAVID KELLEY, US Attorney, Southern District of New York
"ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM"
ALEX GIBNEY, Director
PETER ELKIND, Writer
BETHANY McLEAN, Writer


Thursday, May 26, 2005
ROBERT STRAUSS, Former Chairman, Democratic National Committee, Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union
SHELDON SILVER, Speaker, New York State Assembly

Friday May 27 2005
ROLAND BETTS, Board Member, Lower Manhattan Development Corp., Founder & Chairman, Chelsea Piers, LP
PAUL GOLDBERGER, Architecture Critic, "The New Yorker"
GORDON RAMSAY, Chef & Star of "Hell’s Kitchen" and "Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares"

Monday May 30, 2005
Historian DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Author, "1776"

Tuesday May 31, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF "DEEP THROAT" WITH, DAVID GERGEN Center for Public Leadership Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Editor-at-Large, US News & World Report
JOHN HARRIS, The Washington Post, Author, "The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House"
CHERYL HOWARD CREW Author, In the Face of Jinn: A Novel


Wednesday, June 1, 2005
"CINDERELLA MAN" - RUSSELL CROWE, Actor, PAUL GIAMATTI, Actor, RON HOWARD, Director

Thursday June 2, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHINA WITH TED FISHMAN, Author, "China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World"
ED COLLIGAN, President and CEO, PalmOne

Friday, June 3, 2005
ERIC SCHMIDT, CEO, Google

Monday, June 6, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EUROPE WITH
JEAN-MARIE COLOMBANI, Editor, Le Monde
WALTER WELLS, Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune
and RICHARD REEVES. Historian / Author, University of Southern California
and "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
EDWARD ALBEE, Playwright
KATHLEEN TURNER, Actor

BILL IRWIN, Actor

Tuesday June 7, 2005
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IMPROVING PUBLIC EDUCATION WITH
KEVIN JOHNSON, Founder, St. Hope Corporation, Former NBA All-Star
KIM SMITH, Co-Founder & CEO, New Schools Venture Fund

DON SHALVEY, Co-Founder & CEO, Aspire Public Schools
and JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times, Author, "What the Dormouse Said... How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry"

Wednesday June 8, 2005
An appreciation of ANNE BANCROFT


Thursday June 9, 2005
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, Secretary of State


Friday, June 10, 2005
KARSTEN VOIGT, Coordinator for German-American Relations, German Foreign Office
In Celebration of his 90th birthday on June 12: DAVID ROCKEFELLER. Philanthropist/Former Chairman & CEO, Chase

Monday June 13, 2005
MICHAEL EISNER, CEO, The Walt Disney Company, Author, "Camp"
and Singer/Songwriter BRIAN WILSON

Tuesday June 14, 2005
JIM LEHRER, Executive Editor & Anchor, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and Author, "The Franklin Affair: A Novel"
LINDA GREENHOUSE, Author, "Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey":


Wednesday June 15, 2005
"Batman Begins"
CHRISTIAN BALE, Actor
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, Director
"Bewitched" - WILL FERRELL, Actor
NORA EPHRON, Director


Thursday June 16, 2005
"Glengarry Glen Ross" ALAN ALDA, Actor and LIEV SCHREIBER, Actor
NBA Rookie of the Year: EMEKA OKAFOR of the Charlotte Bobcats
Designer DIANE VON FURSTENBURG on the new book "A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz: The Testimony of Sima Vaisman": for which she wrote the afterword


Friday June 17, 2005
BOB WOODRUFF, Correspondent, ABC News
ARTHUR BROWN, Former CIA East Asia Division Chief
Senior Vice President, Control Risks Group

Monday, June 20, 2005
WALTER MOSSBERG Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
THOMAS BLEHA Journalist, "Down to the Wire" in Foreign Affairs
STACY SCHIFF Author, "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America"


Tuesday, June 21, 2005
JOSEPH BIDEN , Senator (D-DE)
From Iraq: JOHN F. BURNS, The New York Times
DOUG LIMAN, Director, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"

Wednesday, June 22, 2005
ANTHONY SHADID, The Washington Post, "Rize"
TOMMY JOHNSON, Dancer, DAVID LACHAPPELLE, Filmmaker, CHRISTOPHER TOLER, Dancer
"Rescue Me"
DENIS LEARY, Actor / Writer / Co-Creator
PETER TOLAN, Director / Writer / Co-Creator

Thursday, June 23, 2005
STEPHEN HADLEY, National Security Advisor
PHILIP CAPUTO, Author, "Acts of Faith"

Friday, June 24, 2005
BRIAN WILSONSinger / Songwriter
DAVID LEAF, Filmmaker, "Beautiful Dreamer"
HENRY McKINNELL, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer

Monday, June 27, 2005
ALBERTO GONZALES, US Attorney General
A PREVIEW OF PRESIDENT BUSH’S TUESDAY NIGHT SPEECH WITH TERRY MORAN, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR Legal Correspondent on Monday’s Supreme Court decisions


Tuesday June 28, 2005  
ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT BUSH’S ADDRESS TO THE NATION
MICHAEL DUFFY, Time
JAMES HOAGLAND, The Washington Post
RICHARD HAASS, President, Council on Foreign Relations
RICHARD STEVENSON, The New York Times
JON MEACHAM,
Managing Editor, Newsweek
on Billy Graham

Wednesday, June 29, 2005
DANIEL DOCTOROFF, Deputy Mayor For Economic Development and Rebuilding, New York City "Hustle and Flow"
JOHN SINGLETON, Producer
CRAIG BREWER, Director

Thursday, June 30, 2005
NORMAN PEARLSTINE, Editor-in-Chief, Time
JONATHAN ALTER, Senior Editor, Newsweek
A CONVERSATION ABOUT POVERTY & THE UPCOMING G8 SUMMIT WITH BONO, Singer/Songwriter, Board of Directors, DATA
THE GRAND CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL HEALTH: AN INITIATIVE OF THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
HAROLD VARMUS, President & CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
RICK KLAUSNER, MD, Executive Director, Global Health, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
DR. ANTHONY JAMES, Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California - Irvine

Friday, July 1, 2005
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE RETIREMENT OF SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR WITH: DAVID BOIES, Founding Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP. JAY SEKULOW, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, RALPH NEAS, President & CEO, People For the American Way, JEFFREY ROSEN, George Washington University Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
NINA TOTENBERG Legal Correspondent, National Public Radio

CHARLES LANE, The Washington Post
AND AN EXCERPT FROM CHARLIE’S 2002
INTERVIEW WITH JUSTICE O’CONNOR

Monday, July 4, 2005
A REBROADCAST OF AN HOUR WITH DAVID McCULLOUGH, Author, "1776"

Tuesday, July 5, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT IRAQ WITH
GEN. JACK KEANE, Retired Vice Chief of Staff, US Army Member, Defense Policy Review Board
JENNET CONANT, Author, "109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos"


Wednesday, July 6, 2005
"Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" Co-authors STEVEN LEVITT & STEPHEN DUBNER
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. Historian & Author

Thursday, July 7, 2005
From London, coverage of the explosions in that city with
ROD NORDLAND. Newsweek
and BOB WOODWARD, The Washington Post, Author, "The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat"

Friday, July 8, 2005
AN HOUR WITH STEVE WYNN, Chairman & CEO, Wynn Resorts

Monday, July 11, 2005
PETROS MOLYVIATIS, Foreign Minister, Greece
ALSO A DISCUSSION ABOUT EUROPE AND TERRORISM WITH:
LOUISE RICHARDSON, Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

MARTHA RADDATZ, National Security Correspondent, ABC News

AND A CONVERSATION ABOUT ART WITH
STEVE WYNN, Chairman & CEO, Wynn Resorts

Tuesday, July 12, 2005
THE LATEST ON THE LONDON BOMBINGS WITH: MICHAEL ELLIOTT, International Editor, Time
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE KARL ROVE CONTROVERSY WITH: TERRY MORAN, ABC News, RICHARD STEVENSON The New York Times
"MURDERBALL"
MARK ZUPAN , 2004 Paralympic Bronze Medalist, Quad-Rugby, DANA ADAM SHAPIRO, Co-director / Co-producer, HENRY-ALEX RUBIN, Co-director & Director of Photography

Wednesday, July 13, 2005
LEE HSIEN LOONG, Prime Minister & Finance Minister, Republic of Singapore
AND A DISCUSSION ABOUT TORTURE WITH KENNETH ROTH
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
JOHN YOO, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, July 14, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION IN LONDON WITH EMYR JONES PARRY, UK Ambassador to the United Nations
A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHINESE INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN BUSINESS WITH: ALLAN SLOAN, Newsweek
ELIZABETH ECONOMY, Council on Foreign Relations

C. RICHARD D’AMATO, Chairman,
US-China Economic & Security Review Commission
"Wedding Crashers"
OWEN WILSON, Actor

Friday July 15, 2005
VINCE VAUGHN, Actor, "Wedding Crashers"
STANLEY CROUCH, Author, "The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity"
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Author, "Thomas Jefferson: Author of America"

Monday July 18, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CIA LEAK CASE WITH
MATT COOPER, Time Magazine
FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CASE WITH
Bloomberg News Reporters WILLIAM ROBERTS & RICHARD KEIL
ALSO FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY, Author, "Them: A Memoir of Parents"


Tuesday, July 19, 2005
A LIVE DISCUSSION ABOUT PRESIDENT BUSH’S ANNOUNCEMENT
OF HIS SUPREME COURT NOMINEE WITH
LARRY TRIBE, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
CHARLES FRIED, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
RALPH NEAS, President & CEO, People for the American Way
TOM FITTON, President, Judicial Watch
WILLIAM BARR, Former Attorney General
ALSO
LARRY KRAMER, Activist / Author, "The Tragedy of Today’s Gays"

Wednesday, July 20, 2005
A DISCUSSION ABOUT JOHN ROBERTS AND THE FUTURE OF THE SUPREME COURT WITH
BURT NEUBORNE, NYU Law School
SAMUEL ISSACHAROFF, Columbia Law School
and ANTONY SHER, Writer / Actor, "Primo"

Thursday July 21, 2005
Investigation into the CIA Leak with
WALTER PINCUS, Washington Post
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GAZA WITHDRAWAL WITH
STEPHEN P. COHEN, Israeli Policy Forum
ROBERT MALLEY, International Crisis Group
AND ALEXEI RATMANSKY, Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet

Friday July 22, 2005
DOMESTIC SECURITY WITH:
WILLIAM FINNEGAN, The New Yorker
RAPHAEL RON, President, New Age Security Solutions
MICHAEL WERMUTH, Director, RAND Homeland Security Program
Also A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHINESE CURRENCY WITH:
KEITH BRADSHER, The New York Times
STEVEN ENGLANDER, Barclays Capital

Monday, July 25, 2005
OLIVIER ROY, National Center For Scientific Research, Paris
PETER THIEL, Founder & President, Clarium Capital Management, Founder / Former Chairman & CEO, PayPal

Tuesday, July 26, 2005
REID WEINGARTEN, Attorney for Bernard Ebbers, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
WONG KAR-WAI, Filmmaker, "2046"

Wednesday July 27, 2005
Former National Security Advisers: BRENT SCOWCROFT & SAMUEL BERGER
TOM VILSACK, Governor of Iowa
AND A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH: MARK HALPERIN. Political Director, ABC News and DAN BALZ. The Washington Post

Thursday July 28, 2005
MARTIN MCGUINNESS, Chief Negotiator, Sinn Fein
FROM BAGHDAD: JOHN F. BURNS, The New York Times
IGNACIO FIGUERAS, Polo Champion


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