December 2 - 6, 2002

Monday, Dec. 2

Miranda Rights (Listen)
Do you have the right to remain silent in police custody? How about the right not to be questioned, some would say “coercively”, without a lawyer present? Most people think that they are protected under the famous Miranda ruling, which not only informs people of their rights, but allows them to remain silent without further hassle, protecting their 5th Amendment rights. In the context of an Oxnard case, the Supreme Court will review the Miranda ruling to see if police questioning should be regulated if it does not lead to the introduction of incriminating evidence in a court case. Host Larry Mantle speaks with Eugene Volokh, professor of law at UCLA Law School, specializing in constitutional law and Robert Pugsley, professor of criminal law at Southwestern University School of Law.

Community Advocates (Listen)
Larry Mantle discusses the new race and human relations organization “Community Advocates” with the President of the organization, David Lehrer, and Vice President Joe Hicks. Together they examine why they felt the need to form the organization, current key race and ethnic relations issues, and their new vision for civil rights and race relations.

Tuesday, Dec. 3

Tom Brokaw (Listen)
Larry Mantle talks with Anchor and Managing Editor of “NBC Nightly News,” Tom Brokaw about his new memoir, A Long Way From Home: Growing Up In The American Heartland (Random House). In it, Brokaw chronicles his experiences from his prairie childhood to his early days in broadcast journalism.

The Nose Knows! (Listen)
Journalist Gabrielle Glaser has always had an unusually keen sense of smell. When she had a sinus operation and lost her sense of smell for two years, she really began to understand the importance of smell. Noses are funny things: we blow them, we change them, and we make fun of them. Glaser joins host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty and Survival (Atria Books, 2002).

Wednesday, Dec. 4

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton (Listen)
Larry Mantle talks with the new Police Chief of Los Angeles, William Bratton, about his goals for the Los Angeles Police Department, and how he intends to deal with such issues as gang violence, officer misconduct, falling police academy enrollment rates, low officer morale, and the renovation Parker Center.

Hallucinogens: A Controversial Gift to the World (Listen)
It has been over forty years since Timothy Leary began talking about the dazzling visions that he experienced while taking mind-altering drugs. Larry Mantle talks with Dr. Charles Grob about Hallucinogens: A Reader (Jeremy Tarcher), his new survey of writings on the use of psychoactive drugs and their contribution to Western society. In Hallucinogens, Professor Grob assembles recent writings of such important thinkers as Andrew Weil, Terrence McKenna, and Huston Smith who reevaluate the social worth and cultural meaning of hallucinogens.

Thursday, Dec. 5

Teenage Alcoholism (Listen)
Why do some teens become addicted to alcohol? Called a “gateway drug,” alcohol usually leads on to other drug use. Kids often begin drinking in their preteens, sometimes as young as nine or ten years of age. Their addiction hardens into their teenage years, wreaking havoc on their studies and on their lives. In our continuing Health Dialogues series, host Larry Mantle speaks with Dallas Stout, the managing director of the Phoenix Academy of Orange County, a drug and alcohol treatment facility, and Kenneth Peter, resource teacher for safety, drugs alcohol, tobacco, health and Physical Education in the Pasadena Unified School District. Also joining Larry are Gina, a resident in the Phoenix Academy's recovery program, and Dr. Susan Tapert, an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the physiological effects of alcohol on teenagers’ brains.

The Animation of Ray Harryhausen (Listen)
Larry Mantle speaks with Ray Harryhausen, one of film’s greatest stop-motion animators. Inspired by early movies like King Kong, he began with a 16 millimeter camera and hand-made clay dinosaurs. Harryhausen went on to create the special effects in numerous films, including “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) and the Sinbad films with creatures like the famous Cyclops.

Friday, Dec. 6

Carl Reiner (Listen)
Larry Mantle talks with actor, writer, director, and producer Carl Reiner about his long career in Hollywood and his appearance at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in which he will share anecdotes from his life. Reiner is best known as co-star of the legendary television program “Your Show of Shows,” and the creator and co-star of “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Reiner also directed such films as “The Jerk,” “All of Me,” and “Oh God.” Carl Reiner will be appearing at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Monday, December 9th in Segerstrom Hall at 8 p.m.

Frank Lloyd Wright (Listen)
The Orange County Museum of Art is showcasing an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright’s leaded glass windows called, Light Screens: the Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright. Host Larry Mantle speaks with exhibition curator Julie Sloan, and architectural historian and author Kathryn Smith, about Wright’s windows and his life. Larry also speaks with Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright, an architect living in Malibu, about his grandfather’s architectural ideology and what it was like to know Frank Lloyd Wright.

FilmWeek (Listen)

Larry Mantle and critics Andy Klein of New Times and Peter Rainer of New York Magazine, discuss this week's new film releases, including Adaptation, Analyze That, Empire, and To End All Wars.

Please join Andy Klein on Saturday, December 7th, at 7:30 pm as he introduces Rashomon part of the Akira Kurosawa / Toshiro Mifune Film Festival at the Nuart. There will be a question and answer session following the screening.


Be sure to visit Henry Sheehan's website, HenrySheehan.com, for a selection of his past reviews and commentaries.