Patt Morrison
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Monday Nov. 23rdMONDAY: Fatherhood - what is it? Patt, Tom Leykis and Gloria Allred discuss in light of over-the-counter DNA tests; and New York Times financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin explains the financial meltdown with his new book "Too Big to Fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system - and themselves"
Patt Morrison for Friday, July 3, 2009
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A look at all-American (or maybe all-"LA") things in summer: sunscreen buffs argue SPF hype, a freeway photographer sees the beauty in our transport, P.J. O'Rourke takes aim at the "fun-suckers" sucking the joy out of America's car culture, Michael Pollan cautions celebrating the 4th the way your grandmother would, and two historians duke it out—the Summer of '59 or '69—which year changed everything?
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Even though the FDA proposed a cap on SPFs at 50+, brands are still putting sky-high skin protection on the shelves and consumers may be buying in. From 75 to 85 and now to 100, the auctioneer is raising the number and raising it fast - but, is there any merit in SPFs that high, or is just brand hype?
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Richard Miller, a pioneer in photographic methods, often used the cabro printing process, a technically detailed and challenging method of production, in his amazing photography, which includes early pictures of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. In contrast, he used black and white film to document the building of the Hollywood freeway, photographs he made just for himself that are published for the first time in his new book, Freeway.
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Award winning author Michael Pollan is back on the road to talk more about what we should and should not be eating. In his latest New York Times bestseller In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Pollan explains why we should avoid the center aisles of the grocery store, think often of our great-grandmothers, and the difference between actual food that is safe to consume and the ever dangerous edible food-like substances.
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Can a year make that big a difference? Patt speaks with two authors that believe a year can change everything. Patt mediates as Fred Kaplan, author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed and Rob Kirkpatrick, author of 1969: The Year Everything Changed duke it out.
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Satirist and best-selling author of P.J. O'Rourke joins us with his latest collection of essays - "Driving Like Crazy – Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be – With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn." Armed with his wit and an SUV, O’Rourke takes aim at the "fun-suckers" trying to take the joy out of America's car culture.
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
What specific wavelengths of sunlight causes harm?
Is infrared radiation harmful and why is only UV-A and UV-B radiation mentioned when discussing sunscreens?
4 months, 2 weeks ago
i realize this is not on today's lineup, but financial woes considered, how can the city council pay for LAPD overtime, et al for michael jackson's memorial. this is outrageous
LAPD since it went on a 3-day work week is busting the city budget for OT. and they do not want to change anything despite our budget woes.
this is not fair, right, ethical for working city employees to be furloughed, et al and pay for MJ's memorial. let AEG and the Jackson family pony up!!!...gdub
4 months, 2 weeks ago
A question for P.J. O'Rourke:
what does he think of the 100+- lb. all electric engine that you can just about carry around with you?
what about hydrogen fuel engines?
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I think that we need people like PJ O'Rourke to die off. He embraces the shortsightedness that has landed us in the predicament we are in. The fact that the Ariel Atom, a fully electric car, outperforms all muscle cars, is a testament that men like PJ only need the vehicle to compensate for their own inadequacies.
Oil is too valuable to burn. Yes we should use it until it runs out, but not by burning it. Don't be a fool.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I enjoyed a 1970 Fiat Spider for 8 years and sold it with just over 300,000 Miles.
I drive a Mercedes now.
The Italian car is like a mistress and the German car is like a mother and there is something to be happy with in both!
Ron Smith - Pasadena
4 months, 2 weeks ago
convertibles! I have photos of my parents in their 1947 convertible;; I grew up in a 1960 Chevy Impala convertible, that was then replaced by a 1967 Chrysler 300 convertible; that was replaced by a Mustang convertible and now I have a Jeep wrangler convertible. all the cars before the Jeep were in Seattle --- where in the winter a convertible calls for a lap rug and a fur hat!
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Are you kidding?!!! Arguably the greastest aspirational-technical achievement OF ALL TIME. let alone of 1969: Sending people to AND SAFELY RETURNING them from the Moon. Did I just not hear the whole segment? How could this achievement not be mentioned?