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For the broadcast of June 21, 2008
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listenClint Eastwood Exclusive!

An exclusive Q-and-A with Clint Eastwood, the subject of a new documentary. He'll talk about acting, directing, and the fire at Universal that destroyed a set he'd been working on.


listenEastwood on Directing

Clint Eastwood talks about getting into directing and why silence is golden on a movie set.

listenEastwood on the Magic of Music

Clint Eastwood talks about working with Meryl Streep and why he learned to tickle the ivories.




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listenThe Inner Life of Miranda July

Miranda July - writer, director, and star of "Me and You and Everyone We Know" - talks with Queena Kim about her book of short stories called, "No One Belongs Here More Than You."


Off-Ramp video interview with Miranda July






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listenThe Big Cheese in Food

L.A. Times food writer Russ Parsons is inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who and celebrates by taking John Rabe on a tour of the Santa Monica farmer's market.



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listenTrailblazing in The 'Bu

Off-Ramp correspondent Jackson Musker goes on a beach safari with the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, who stand up for your right to enjoy the public beaches in front of billionaire's estates.



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listenSkunk Be Gone

Have skunk problems? John Rabe has a solution. Hint: they have four legs, a tail and go woof, woof!



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listenInvasive Recipes

Troubled by invasive species in our lakes, streams, fields, and oceans? Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele offers this guide on how to eat them.



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listenA June Wedding

With hundreds of same-sex couples getting hitched this week, KPCC reporters Brian Watt and Susan Valot collected voices pro and con.



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listenThe Rock Fish Files

Commentator and marine biologist Martin Love says William Burroughs and Miles Davis have nothing on the Rock Fish.


Coming Up
On June 28: Tim Robbins talks about bringing back "1984" with The Actors Gang; Happy 100th Leroy Anderson, master of the miniature; and LACMA finally welcomes Cheech Marin's Chicano art.
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