Kurt Andersen talks with Ridley Scott — director of such celebrated films as Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma and Louise, and Gladiator — about what drives his imagination and about his new medieval crusade epic, The Kingdom of Heaven. Plus writer Steven Johnson explains how TV and video games could actually be making us smarter, and pianist Christopher O’Rileyshows us howRadiohead can revitalize classical music.
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