Election, Magic, Kaufman
Kurt explores how today’s candidates borrow their strategies from magicians, hit TV shows, and Puritan theology. With writer Sarah Vowell and actress Sarah Jones, who describes how “sounding black” may have helped Obama. Plus, screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman; his new film is “Synecdoche, New York.”
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