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Arts Express Radio: Rob Morgan, Cathy Moriarty

Jan 28, 2021: 7pm - 8pm
"I can't really say who killed Billie Holiday, But I would say the impact was the fear of a public figure potentially uniting the population - Billie Holiday, her song Strange Fruit has that potential." The United States Vs. Billie Holiday: A Conversation With Rob Morgan. The African American actor, who had his own musical turn as the uncredited Miles Davis in a movie, stars in this film as Holiday's last husband, mobster Louis McKay. Morgan discusses quite a few of his movies considered right now for awards this past year - including The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, as well as the Tom Hanks World War II drama Greyhound. And Morgan's starring role in Bull - as a rural Texas part gladiator/beast of burden in his own right bullfighter - and what it has to do with the buried history of black cowboys in America. ** "I will be forever filled with gratitude to Martin Scorsese, De Niro and all the people involved in Raging Bull, for that opportunity and for the time they took out - especially on days when I didn't have a clue." Cathy Moriarty Talks Flinch, Raging Bull: The veteran actress best known for standing up to Raging Bull's deranged domestic violent boxer Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta when she was just seventeen years old, and not too successfully as a battered wife - what was Scorsese thinking - is back this time around as a take charge badgering gangster mom of a reluctant hitman son, played by Costa Rican born actor Daniel Zovatto, in Flinch. ** "The richness of the interiors of most television series are designed to blend seamlessly with the advertisements which surround them - where a problem is solved in one minute by an appropriate commodity." Bro On The Global Television Beat: TV's Forgotten - The Working Class And Indigenous Characters On The Small Screen. And connections to colonial capitalism, joblessness, real estate porn, and a rundown sausage stand by the sea.