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Three American Icons

This week, a triple header from the series American Icons, which focuses on works of art that changed the way we think about America. More than 150 years ago, Nathaniel Hawthorne put his finger on how we ostracize women for their sexuality in The Scarlet Letter. Meanwhile, Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" celebrates the opposite tendency in American culture: the devil-may-care slide towards looser morals. And in Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman captured the way that being a woman --- or maybe being a person --- is just playing a role.
(Segments in this week's show aired previously.)

Studio 360

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Afternoon Delight & Anything Goes

This week in Studio 360, taboos are broken. Jill Soloway talks about her film Afternoon Delight, in which a married woman brings home a sex worker to be her nanny. And in our series American Icons, we look at "Anything Goes," Cole Porter's enduring anthem to being naughty --- we gave the song a reboot for the age of sexting, bank bailouts, and fries with bacon. Plus, the three sisters of Haim, whose power-pop anthems refer to Fleetwood Mac as much as Rihanna.