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Worth Watching sitting in for Terry Gross imagine what it would look like if a rhino a leopard a grizzly bear an ostrich award hog an alligator a double headed turtle a giant clam awardee pig a striped treefrog and thousands of other animals came to a photo studio to sit for their portraits that's never going to happen so Joel Sartore does the next best thing he creates a version of a portrait studio where ever the animals are Sartore is a National Geographic contributing photographer and fellow in addition to his assignments in the wild he's taken on the project of documenting the world's animal species that are currently under human care in other words a representative of each animal species in zoos wildlife rehab centers and aquariums these are animals who are on the verge of extinction or are endangered or may soon be his goal is to document them before they disappear he hopes that by taking beautiful photos of them more people will care about these animals and ensure that they have a future for the benefit of the animals humans and Earth's ecosystem his project is called the photo ark and when Terry Gross spoke to him in 2017 he'd already photographed 6500 different species and published an accompanying photo book since then he's published 2 more photo Ark books the latest called vanishing the world's most vulnerable animals came out this month. Tare welcome to Fresh Air So why did you decide to do animals who are under human care as opposed to animals in the wild because a lot of animals in the wild that aren't going to be represented in your art project sure there's millions of species in the wild and there's you know about 12000 maybe 13000 and those in captivity the reason is because I've never been able to talk a tiger into walking out of the woods the kind I sat and posing just can't do it you're not very good at this are you know I'm not I'm not a. Fact I haven't even tried so reality is that the animals that are you know in captivity around the world they are there they're used to people they've been around people their whole lives born and raised. And so it's it's just much easier to convince them to come into a room and most time we shift animals into a room that's been prepped with black and white either paint or cloth or paper and then we feed them during the shoot it takes a few minutes and then they're then they leave you know so most time they just think they're coming in to get lunch by the time I get there I love that you photograph them in a studio type set setting you basically create studios in the zoo or the wildlife center by setting up a white background in floor or bat black background in floor right so why do you want to photograph them in that kind of tagging as opposed to like in there in the setting that they live in in church and share in whatever you know either cage or wildlife setting they have in their refuge or zoo right now I mean I did that for a long time I have been a National Geographic photographer for 26 years like that 27 and I photographed the 1st 15 years or so out in the wild doing stories of different conservation stories story on wolves on grizzly bears on koalas all in the wild and can I say that move the needle enough to stop the extinction crisis no no. I did not so I just figured maybe very simple portraits lit exquisitely so you can see the beauty in the color looking animals directly in the eye with no distractions would be the way to do it and also on these black and white backgrounds with no nothing to have as a size comparison a mouse is every bit as glorious as an elephant and a tiger beetle is every bit as big and important as a tiger so it's a great equalizer and the majority of the animals that are in the photo ark are not are not gorillas rhinos and polar bears there they're mice and they're toads and they're sparrows and they're they're animals that will never have their voices heard before they go away before they're before they're let off to extinction and so I feel it's a big responsibility to show them all equally and give them equal care and give them an equal voice you know it's funny it's like the animals are making eye contact with you because you photographed them looking into the lens right there looking into my eyes when I look at the photo that's right because of a kind of studio setting that you created reminds me a little bit of like a phantom us had like graduation photos. Of any parents sent him to the studio to get the photos that then can be framed and put on the wall and you know that's exactly right yeah that's right I mean it is it is a series of pictures pictures like that just exactly like that we we just want to show the animals looking their best and to get people drawn in into the tent of conservation to realize that all of these animals are important and valuable and worth preserving I mean after all really we stand to lose about half of all species by the turn of the next century by 2100 and it's really folly to think that we can do half of everything else to extinction but that people will be just fine and we have to have pollinating insects to to bring us fruits and vegetables if you want think of Sufis least we have to have healthy intact rain for us to help not only regulate climate but but to make sure our rainfall stays stabilized and. Predictable and consistent places like Nebraska where I live where we grow crops to feed the world so really as these creatures go so do we I love seeing the photos of animals that I'm familiar with like you know a leopard a rhino but there's a lot of animals in your book that I'm really not familiar with including the Bengal slow loris and I this is a little baby Doris that you know I have and so you know so the Larson is in a hand like a somebody right somebody is holding it just for scale I guess because the right tiny device it's like big round eyes on the still like adorable fuzzy hair perfectly round face right it's like tiny little creature How old was the loris and what is a Bengal slow loris Well he's just he's just a little primate and I believe that was photographed with that photographed in Vietnam perhaps at a wildlife rehab center and they have you know a lot of these rehab centers have animals that have been confiscated from the pet trade the mothers have been killed and they're sold in the pet trade and and so you're looking at something just a few weeks old in it and it's a primate and it needs a abundant attention and care which is which of the places I work at and so you're seeing a little baby there that needs all the help in the world to make it to adulthood and then rehab centers you know they grow back up they condition and live in the wild how to find the right food and off they go again so. Big fan of wildlife rehab centers in general. So there's a lot of animals that must be really easy to get to pose like the little baby Loris that fits in the palm of a hand but then you've got a bison and people told you you're not going to get able to get a bias and to pose for your eye or to even go into the little studio tent that you set up so what do I have to do to get the bison found out right well I should explain to folks like for small animals we work with animals that again that the institution knows that the animal will tolerate going into a little crate or a kennel they're trained and they they let him go out back out into. Into a little tent but for an animal like a bison there's no tent big enough it's a good way to get hurt and so so what they did is they painted this is that the Oklahoma City Zoo and they painted an off exhibit space black and then we waited a day and we painted it white and we led her in there were using mulberry leaves they could literally park her on a dime using mulberry leaves they had a herd of bison they were named after the characters on Gilligan's Island so. She was Marianne and they they just put her right there on a dime and they didn't think that she would do it but we put the lights up in the ceiling so she couldn't get into armor or rip and down the cords are all tied up against the ceiling up in the beams and then they just put her they just put her right there right there and she'd stand there all day long is really remarkable but you get any animal Yeah now she knows just she's standing on on a painted backdrop and a painted floor and then they would give her mulberry leaves and when she'd finished the last leaf and look up at me I would say hey Marianne she look at me and and then I get a picture and then they'd feed her some more leaves to keep her there and she just you know she was just having lunch because she was used to the backdrop so it's very nice that way so there's a lot of advance work that goes into these pictures obviously months of work to go to one zoo just in the prep I'll tell you what why don't we take a short break here and then we'll talk some more about the animals that you photographed for your ark series and let me reintroduce you here my guest is Joel Sartore and he's a photographer a contributing photographer for National Geographic and he's trying to document all of the animals under human care in zoos and aquariums and the photos are really beautiful We'll be right back this is Fresh Air. Supporters include the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach presenting complection contemporary ballet on October 5th at 8 pm in a program featuring the so-called premier of woke and the David Bowie tribute Stardust to white rodents protest rally ballet Wolk is a physical reaction to the daily news while Stardust celebrates David Bowie through his music and glam rock inspired costumes tickets to complection is contemporary ballet are at Carpenter arts dot org This is Fresh Air and if you're just joining us my guest is Joel Satori He's a contributing photographer for National Geographic and the project he's been working on for over 10 years is the photo Ark project and these girls have photos of all of the animals under human care in zoos in animal rehab centers and aquariums and he's gotten over 6000 of those photos done already in other words over 6000 animals he's documented. We're talking about like. Doing big animals and small animals so another big animal that you did was a grizzly bear and so yep you know I mean Grizzlies can be very dangerous which I'm sure you learned the hard way in the wild. Because you photographed them in both places but doing the grizzly bear and the zoo was the grizzly bear pretty accustomed to humans did you have to do anything to protect yourself you know we if it's a big animal like that we're always working behind a protective barrier some sort you know usually wire metal but in this case you know again the that space is prepped it's been for a big gamble to practice painted white and painted black and that was that the Sedgwick County Zoo in which talk Kansas they get the space ready the Bears used to come in there to have lunch the off exhibit space in the back of the zoo the pictures are taken while he's eating whenever he looks up in between tidbits I think it was just raw meat he looks up we get his picture he looks like he's smiling and he goes back to it and then the photo shoots over when the Usually when the animal gets fall that's it for the photo shoot a lot of food motivation there so no no danger at all and I'd listen to what the staff of the zoo says in terms of how close to get just never a problem so compare the experience of photographing a grizzly in these controlled circumstances for your armed series to photographing a grizzly in the wild Well I tell you it's it's a lot easier photographed them in captivity and you don't get charged than I did an entire story on Grizzlies for the geographic years ago and I remember getting charged on day 3 of the assignment because you know if your pictures aren't good enough you're not close enough the old saying goes and so. Got too close to a mother with her cubs in Alaska and I just remembered. Her charging at me and it looked like she was just looked like she was shot out of a cannon she moved so. Quickly and I couldn't run away if I'd wanted to my my feet I didn't even know I had legs to move I just stood there with my mouth open and she didn't touch me but I thought well there's going to be a long assignment I mean 8 weeks to go so. It's just it's a lot better working with animals that have been around people their whole lives you know a lot lot better han hold on I think you finish the story she came at you like a cannon you couldn't move and then walk oh and then what then she stopped I don't know She stopped close enough to me that I could smell her breath when she snorted at me and I stood there and. I mean it was just seconds and then she kind of turned around and trotted back to her cubs they were feeding on salmon at a and kept my National Park in Alaska so I just I just shook my head and thought I was real shaky at that point I thought this was really a dumb idea to take this assignment this is going to be the end of my career because there's just no way I can do this this is day 3 but you know if you don't do a great job you're going to fail and starve and die in that order if you're freelancer and so most of the geographic Tarvaris do freelance by the story and so I just kept on and tried to be more creative in how I worked with bears and I started using remote cameras which allowed me to be very close without being there at all some of the cameras would get trashed a little bit but. That's Ok that's Ok we made some made a lot of a lot of pictures that made the story and it just taught me to be more respectful because when you're out there in the wild you're in the bear's house you're in their home and you just have to know their behavior which I didn't know very well start and learn from it. You know this is kind of lacked the wildlife equivalent of a Hollywood movie star who punches. Us in the house you're trying to take their photograph right that's your invading my space totally yeah I've been pushed under Yeah I've been chased by elephants musk ox Grizzlies Did they ever get you know now I've been I've been made real sick by terrible diseases going these places bites from little insects but nothing and nothing in terms of major contact I mean and a flesh eating parasite from of sand fly by in Bolivia that took chemo to heal into the top chamber my heart for a month that flesh eating sounds really bad Yeah it's called leash it was called Mukul cutaneous leishmaniasis and it's gets in through a you know through the bite of a sand fly and wants to get in through your lymphatic system and eventually more holes in your head which is bad. We eat more holes in your hand oh yeah just eats away your sinuses a soft tissue in your head causes big holes always this happening to you Well not in my head but just yeah in my leg and huge in fact and you get bacterial infections from it and it's just hard to treat How many bones did you have and one big hole in my leg and you want to keep it from getting worse so the c.d.c. In Atlanta gives you. And gives your doctor permission to get their treatment which is a heavy metal called an ammonia and it's it has been mixed up fresh and served cold they put it into your top chamber your heart using a pic line because the drug is corrosive divans and they want to they want it to be dispersed in your bloodstream very quickly so they run this pic line up your arm in the top chamber your heart in the stuff goes in and you don't feel very good for about a month. And I had that treatment twice for it because they found it was still alive a year later but I don't you know so far I'm good but it's the little stuff that really the little stuff that really gets you like I came in contact with the Marburg virus which is like Ebola hemorrhagic fever in a bat cave in Uganda so I had to be in quarantine for that for 3 weeks and I didn't get it I didn't get it or I would be talking to you but so yes so working at zoos it's all right. So we were talking earlier about how you get each animal into. Basically like a little black or white tent so that you can photograph them with a solid backdrop like an all white or a all black backdrop and floor right for the bigger animals you have painted backdrops because you can't get them into a tent and you feed them as you're photographing them or somebody feeds them so that their i Pod unhappy right and I'm wondering if you worked with any animal trainers because what I'm thinking of here is one of the animal trainers I talked to who works with animals in movies said that when when they want the animal to look the person to look the actor in the eye when they do is they take a bit of food and sometimes put it on the the actors Farhad So the animals are looking at the food on the actor but it looks like they're making eye contact with the actor really I have not tried that I've not tried putting food on my head I think to be a bad idea with a grizzly bear for example thanks to I think do well the closest I've come to that is there's a little white arctic fox from a zoo in Kansas that's on the spine of that is had thought it was so cute yeah I'm sorry go ahead he was reacting he is reacting to me squealing like a pig because he was not paying any attention to me so I squealed like a pig once and he looked and then I tried to get it didn't work so I got one frame of him he was a educational animal hand raised and taken to zoos to educate school kids so he was really used to people and being handled and he just could not have cared less to have about his picture being taken but the pigs we all stopped him in his tracks there he was so describe the pose that he's there. Well he's just he's just sitting there he was in the middle of their vet clinic We outfitted that with black felt floor and black velvet walls and put lights overhead and he he was just sniffing everything very curious eager to go meet people because he was this outreach animal and he really didn't care about anything other than just exploring So that was the one moment he stopped that's about all I got really are you good at swimming like a pet. Been known to be pretty good at you know from the brass kennel kind of heroin Ok reading. Oh I. Only works once you know very convincing thank you yaml done zoos see they've heard it all people are shouting and yelling and not being very nice and so I had to come up with something that would work. I'm glad to say that I squealed like a pig with Terry Gross and you know I'm such a big fan I mean I dressed up for the show and it's radio and I'm not even in the same studio as you so you're not impressing me at all with your clothing but I'm dressed I'm dressed up for this I'm wearing clean clothes even which you don't do when you're photographing animals. There's no point you know point you know am I being like overly anthropomorphic when I say Oh oh that Little White Fox It was so cute you know because it's a beautiful photo it makes me want to like pat the little fox but it's a fox you know it's not it's not a right right they're not pets but you know really that's the goal of the if we can gets my contact going with something that is a baby or looks really cute or is you know anthropomorphic kind of looks like us looks matter happy that's good stuff because it in gauges people it changes their mind about how they feel about animals that draws them in and that is that's the whole point the point of this isn't to just create this giant archive the point is to get people to know that the world needs needs all of our help in needs us to be better in terms of our consumer choices in how we live our lives and what what we consume and. Whatever it takes I mean already in the 11 years I've been doing this we've had several species go extinct that I photographed and I never thought I would see that and what are some examples of that animals you photoed that what some of the animals like now that I've photographed Yeah the Colombia Basin pygmy rabbit from eastern Washington state there's no more. A couple species of frog. An insect or 2 we think it's really hard to say precisely but we're we're pretty sure that they're gone now and people ask if that makes me sad and not just angers me a little and motivates me to want to tell their story photographer joy also Tori speaking to Terry Gross in 2017. Vanishing the latest volume of photographs from his ongoing photo art project was published this month after a break we'll hear more of their conversation also damn yankees the movie version of the 1955 musical which brought choreographer Bob Fossey and dancer Gwen Verdon together has just been reissued on d.v.d. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review and I'll review the latest Ryan Murphy t.v. Series the politician which premieres today on Netflix I'm David Bianculli and this is Fresh Air. Our Family Foundation supports w.h.y. Wise fresh air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Harper Collins publisher of the Dutch house Patchett exploring the bond between 2 siblings their childhood home and a past that won't like now in hardcover book and audiobook performed by Tom Hanks and from Capital One offering a variety of credit card options with features for a range of customers from foodies to travelers Capital One what's in your wallet credit approval required capital one bank USA and. Hi this is Larry I battled Saturday at noon until wait critics tell us about Renee Zellweger performances Judy Garland in the film Judy also the animated Obama gets film week Saturday at noon on k p c c k b c c supporters include Toyota arena presenting Lindsey Stirling on her winter 2019 holiday tour Thursday Nov 21st at Toyota arena in Ontario tickets on sale at the Toyota arena box office and at ticketmaster dot com supporters include Maris stem school the transitions young adults on the autism spectrum to independent living including preparation for college and career success the merest a method uses experience learning all coursework and activities incorporate hands on real world experiences merriest them day in residential programs are offered on their 13 acre open campus located outside of Sacramento open enrollment happening now at m e r I s t e m dot Pro This is Fresh Air I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross back with more of Terry's 2017 interview with Joel Sartore a National Geographic contributing photographer and fellow for nearly 15 years he's been taking photographs of each animal species under human care in zoos aquariums and wildlife rehabilitation centers many of these animals are on the verge of extinction or may soon be his goal is to document them before it's too late the project is called the photo ark and the latest volume in that project a collection of photos titled vanishing was published this month so a lot of the work you've done for this series is in zoos and I'll mention again you've done a lot of work a lot of wildlife photography but this project is not in the wild so a lot of the photography has been in zoos has your opinion of zoos changed over the years. Yeah it has somewhat I mean I grew up going to the Omaha Zoo grew up in Omaha Nebraska Ralston to be specific and that was my eyes are growing up and. I started the photo work at the Lincoln children's zoo a mile from my house and I just have so much respect for him now I mean I literally see that zoos are the Ark's now they're kind of keepers of the kingdom there they're saving critically endangered animals that would be extinct by now and it's changed that's what I mean I was taught in the past I think Susan were more like like prisons for human entertainer Well I mean I tell you they started out 100 years ago as menageries But as the decades have gone by man they're conservation centers now and they're all that stands between extinction and survival for many of the species I photograph they only exist in zoos The other thing that's important member is zoos are a really important education centers as our populace becomes more and more urban and less less likely to encounter animals in the wild so those are the only place where they can go and learn and be excited and see and smell and hear live animals so this is a it's a critical role going forward if you try to imagine a world without zoos you're going to be thinking about people are just they're just not going to care they're not going to miss what they don't know in your book you profile some people who are doing really important work with endangered species Yeah and one of the people you profile is t. Lonavla who runs an endangered primate rescue center and yes the nom Yes And you write that these that he cares for mistreated animals who are part of the exotic pet trade you have seized by the government so but once the government seizes them from the illegal traders or or do you do. Does the government not have anything to do with them I mean right they don't what does the government do with these animals after they've rescued them well they used to euthanize him because they didn't have a place to put him to low saw that and he was like he's quoted in the book it wasn't my work or my profession but what could I do he was an electronics specialist and he's like What can I do I couldn't let these animals get euthanized so he would take in these these primates and now he has. He has successful breeding colonies of these animals and they're in big enclosures and they're fed native vegetation right out of cool calm National Park they're in Vietnam and they're breeding and they they've got lots of babies and and the truth is he is a time capsule or a contain that's all until people put away their guns and quit shooting everything on the force then Vietnam he has a big percentage of the world's population of 3 or 4 different species there and he knows he's tried releasing him in the wild they'll get shot and eaten he started a project that he knew in his lifetime would never be complete he is buying time for many of these animals hoping that people will quit shooting them and people will leave the forests intact I really admire that there's a guy that's up against big odds we profile a lot of a lot of people in this book who are up against the same thing Don and then Butler of pheasant heaven Clinton North Carolina they're breeding species of pheasants one species of pheasant that's extinct in the wild Vietnam now when I visited them they had 11 or 12 percent of the world's population in their aviaries breeding them and it's a big responsibility if breeders like that quit the bird would go extinct Jack read low it gulf specimen which is a marine lab in panacea Florida he had to Cait school kids to the importance of manly marine invertebrates come a thankless job you know but they're amazing these are people that work every day not for the glory or any other reason than they they want to see the world preserved so I really admire these people now I read that you bought 1200 acres in Nebraska where you live in an attempt to save a rare bird can you tell us what that about well my. My wife had cancer and she's Ok now but she had cancer and when she came out of it she didn't care what I did with her money and there was the. 2 square miles of alkali wetlands and really steep uplands out in the sand hills by alliance and I went into it with the rancher I've been out there exactly one time before I bought and I toured it with the rancher and I said do long build curlews here breed here and he said yes they do all over the place and I was like that's good enough so there are still some cattle run on it but it's done in a respectful way and they and there's a lot of migrating shorebirds that go through their assets and sandpipers and the curlews and I just thought that be pretty cool you know I mean I see a lot of stuff that's not that fun when I travel to especially developing nations in Asia and Africa I see a lot of a lot of wildlife being consumed and I just want to save a little piece want to save a little corner for protect something so you want 1200 acres that you're just leaving alone so that the wildlife there can continue to live there are passed through there during my relations Yeah so when you say your wife no longer cared after she had cancer what you did yeah I'm honey why did why didn't she care any more you know cancer has a way of really. Clarifying things she just realized life was short and so to die and she's didn't care what we did with her money she just wanted to be healthy and I want her healthy too but cancer is a is a profound experience something many of us are touched by not all of us and it actually created the photo work she'd been pretty good about let me run all over the world for many many years doing these geographic stories one after the next after the next and then she was diagnosed with a pretty large tumor in her right breast and. I found myself grounded for the 1st time in my life stayed home for a year while she went through chemo and radiation we had 3 kids at home the youngest want to just turn to I hadn't even change a diaper on that kid I was not a great father I mean loving father but I'm not home very much and so all sudden I was home grounded and I just thought Ok well is she going to make it I thought about that mostly are we going to lose our house because I can't go out and shoot anymore for the magazine and I thought about what we would do and then it became apparent she was getting better the chemo was working and it's been 12 years now and she's fine but in those days when when things were going real good and we were on our way back out of the darkness I would walk around the house kind of by myself when our youngest was sleeping and just look at the walls and I had a lot of prints up of Audubon's work John James Audubon of birds and mammals some of which are extinct now and the birds and he was he was a great painter but he was also a great naturalist and he gave us our only descriptions of what these animals would act like how they behave these these birds that are extinct and I thought well that guy gave his full measure of devotion he worked his entire life to to bring us this and it stood through time and then I had a book in my library on Edward Curtis shadow catcher that I hadn't looked at so I looked at that and you know he gave his full measure of devotion I guess this entire life to documenting the customs the ways of dress. Housing religious ceremonies everything on Native Americans because he felt very strongly that European settlement was going to alter their way of life significantly so he spent 30 years just working on that one thing and I thought you know what these magazine stories come and go in a month but if I could create a project that would stick that be cool so that's how it started you know and I'm calm an obsessive guy and. You know maybe not the most talented but but certainly energetic and so here we are today 6500 species and I'm talking to Terry Gross on Fresh Air did he give you pause at all though knowing that this project that you designed for yourself after wife had cancer would take you away from her and your children for long periods of time because you're traveling to zoos around the world to wildlife rehab centers around the world yeah that's that's kind of drag I mean lifeline by every year seems to get busier but if it's a choice between photographing an animal that's the very last one in captivity and there are none left in the wild I mean I don't have a choice this is only chance these animals are ever going to be heard the only time their voice will ever be heard is through this project I mean my family understands that. That's just how it is worthwhile that go with me but you know they need the break too Terry they need the breath oh oh I can see why. They don't mind if I'm gone sometimes they ask me when I'm going again I'll just Tori it's really been great to talk with you thank you so much thank you so much really enjoyed it. Joel Sartore speaking to Terry Gross in 2017 he's a photographer for National Geographic attempting to document all of the world's creatures in an ongoing project he calls the photo or when he spoke to Terry 2 years ago he had photographed some 6500 species since that interview that number has climbed to almost 10000 His newest book in the photo series titled vanishing came out this month Coming up Lloyd Schwartz reviews the d.v.d. Reissue of the 1958 movie musical Damn Yankees This is Fresh Air. Hi it's just me Paula Poundstone I doing a live comedy show with Kate. At the theater and this Saturday did you hear that. We will be texting each other Instagram. There's no auto correct I might just say what I meant to say no screens. Live. In person. 2 support for n.p.r. Comes from the station and from a.d.p. An h.r. Partner committed to designing a better way to work with h.r. Talent Time benefits and informed by data and design for people learn more it designed dot com and from Weston hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their Eat well menu on demand fitness gear lending program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott Bon boy. This is Fresh Air earlier this year an Emmy nominated t.v. Mini series drama called Fasi Verdun told the story of the complicated personal and working relationship of 2 Broadway legends choreographer Bob Fossey and dancer when Verdon Sam Rockwell played Fasi and Michelle Williams who just won an Emmy for her role played. In real life the actual Fasi in Verdun 1st collaborated on the 1955 musical Damn Yankees and Warner archive has reissued the d.v.d. Of the movie version our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review Alison to me. This baseball is only want to have skill the other half are something else something bigger. Than when the brave. Young. The musical Damn Yankees opened on Broadway in the 1955 and ran for over a 1000 performances it was the irresistible dancer Gwen Virgin's 1st starring role and she would win a Tony the choreographer for Damn Yankees was Bob Fossey who had appeared in several movie musicals and had only the year before made his Broadway debut as a choreographer in The Pajama Game which also ran for over a 1000 performances Fasi scintillating choreography for the song steam heat became a dance landmark. The songs for both the Pajama Game and Damn Yankees were by the same songwriting team Richard Adler and Jerry Ross whose hit songs for the shows included Hey there her Nando's hideaway you gotta have heart and whatever lolo wants Adler and Ross were on their way to becoming Broadway's next Rodgers and Hammerstein but tragically Ross died of a lung ailment at the age of $29.00 Damn Yankees is the story of a middle aged baseball fan named Joe who sells his soul to the devil to become a great young player who can help his team the Washington Senators win the championship but when Joe misses his wife and wants out of the agreement the devil sends in Lola when Verdon of course whose motto is whatever lolo wants Lola gets but instead of Saddam Hussein Joe she falls in love with him. Most of the original Broadway cast joined Verdun in the film the Broadway's original Joe was replaced by teen idol Tab Hunter who's not much of an actor here although his sincerity is touching Virgin's comic Spanish accent and cartoonish Fasi strip tease make the song more a parody of a seduction unlike the smokey hit recording made by Sarah Vaughan Here's Glen Verdun in the movie whatever love. You. Love never get to go now. Oh no never Landseer. Make up in my name to have. No. Soup for a curry and yourself resign yourself yours the room. Was yet the devil called Mr Applegate is played by the sly Ray Walston probably best known for playing the title role in the sixty's t.v. Show My Favorite Martian in the movie as in the show his big solo is a parody of an old time vaudeville number those were the good old days in which he celebrates some of the world's worst atrocities you see Channel bowls munching on missionary. In the years Mary have flown. This day like start back one must stock market tries to act above is rather good but. Oddball I'm a. It's. Such a. Be a be and. The main reason this is a must see movie is a number the Fossey Verdun t.v. Series devotes practically an entire episode to before the Broadway opening of damn yankees the producers decide to cut a big production number which enrages Fasi But when Adler comes up with a new tune he lights up it's called Who's got the pain and it pokes fun at the grunting noises that come with the latest dance craze the mambo on t.v. Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell danced together in the Broadway show in fact on Broadway Fasi was only the choreographer and never appeared on stage at all but in the movie Fasi in a cameo role and Verdun actually dance together. The number has nothing to do with the story but they are electric every one of their body parts seems to be simultaneously in motion even their eyes are dancing together for 3 minutes and 39 seconds who's got the pain captures these 2 Broadway icons at the beginning of their relationship and at the height of their power. To see the pain when they fill them up out of the pain like that let's go to the pain when they do not bow to the little delusional who needs when they do the Mambo who needs a villain. Who needs a pill when they do the money but I don't know ho delusion some of the singer that is 7 and he wants to cut everyone see them. Why don't they just say all of the music and he said that. Thanks to You Tube You can see Bob Fossey and Gwen Verdon dancing together on a number of fifty's t.v. Shows but the movie version of Damn Yankees is the only time they dance together on the big screen and their sparks set it on fire Lloyd Schwartz teaches in the creative writing m.f.a. Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston he reviewed the movie version of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees available now as a Warner archive d.v.d. Coming up I review the politician the new Netflix series from Ryan Murphy It stars Ben Platt from the Broadway musical Dear Evan hands this is Fresh Air. Saturday and Weekend Edition Congress moved forward the impeachment inquiry of the president from have latest in this week a fast breaking news also a new horror novel in which a little boy is greatest fear may be below his bed and Steven Soderbergh in his new film. A comedy about the Panama pavers Saturday and Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News tomorrow morning starting at 5.3. We're proud to announce that. Have Won the online news associations 1st award for engaged journalism it's something that a lot of times people don't talk about soon as I talk to people everybody said the same thing happen to me so my question for you is the near talk listener or not just reporting on the issues we're bringing your views and experiences into the process anybody here for their 1st and heard l.a. . Welcome to the family thanks for making it possible this is Fresh Air I'm t.v. Critic David Bianculli today on Netflix the streaming service presents its newest t.v. Series and at the same time employs its latest not so secret weapon that weapon is Ryan Murphy co-creator of Netflix's new 8 part comedy drama the politician Netflix as part of its aggressive programming strategy has begun signing some of T.V.'s most successful producers Murphy whose resume includes Glee feud an American Horror Story is one Shonda Rhimes creator of Grey's Anatomy is another the idea is to weaken the competition by hiring away their biggest talents something c.b.s. Did back at the very dawn of television so it's by no means a new move but it also counts on those talents to deliver and with the politician Ryan Murphy and his collaborators Brad Feld Chuck and Ian Brennan have delivered a very mixed bag. The politician in the title is Ben Platt the dynamic star of Broadway's deer Evan Hanson he plays Peyton Hobart a privileged California high schooler who dreams of attending an Ivy League school and much much more well there are more than just dreams there are expectations as he explains to his school there was a waking dream the kind that arrives in the twilight between sleep and the real world I sat straight up in there and said out loud I'm going to be president of the United States don't seem to be the hot job everyone aspires to nowadays hear of a possibility has been removed Yes well I had a dream when I was 7 years old in Lawrence and I spent my entire life studying the lives of former presidents in order to identify common experiences and traits that led to their inevitable election victories such as Well they went back as far as one of Reagan because as far as I'm concerned he created the modern presidency the presidency of television and celebrity people like to think of their presidents as characters they see on t.v. Never actually see them in real life Reagan and Bush Sr were both presidents of their senior classes in high school which I assume you are on your way to accomplish I believe I have the election well and have yet to fulfill his long term ambitions Peyton sets his sights on winning the race for high school president even though he's so calculating and aloof and relatively unpopular he thinks he can win with the right campaign team in polling data the perfect running mate and the most resonant issues these will range over the course of the campaign from gun control and teen suicide to celebrity concerts and plastic straws and just as Peyton's focus shifts wildly from issue to issue Murphy's the politician shifts wildly to its plot twists arrive in an unsettling really rapid pace and its characters are just as erratic. As an overall piece of television the politician seems to borrow from several from ill your sources from election and Murphy's own glee to their recent Hulu series the act some scenes and characters are exaggerated and caricature others play for sincere drama asking us to take the plots and people seriously even when surrounded by absurdity but where Murphy always has been at his best is that showcasing his actors and allowing them to shine. With Ben Platt he not only gives the young actor plenty of chances to play either sweet or smarmy he finds several excuses over the course of the season for the musical theater start to sing in the pilot he sings a Joni Mitchell song beautifully later on he sings a Billy Joel song and even a number from Stephen Sondheim's assassins and Murphy is showcasing other favorite players as well Gwyneth Paltrow who appeared in a recurring role on Glee plays Peyton's protective stifled mother and Jessica Lange who has stolen many seasons of Murphy's American horror story gets the best role here of all she plays the grandmother of infinity Jackson a seriously ill teen girl or so it seems who is pushed around in a wheelchair by her nana and her nana pushes everyone else around too as when she confronts the woman handling restaurant reservations at a crowded all of garden as other patrons watch while waiting for their own tables Zoey Deutch plays infinity infinity say hello to care and. Caring right. Here with the info I take in here which they go. I said let's go to Coco's I was so excited I love the salmon that Cocoa's Popeye Oh but you dug in and you said. I just got my feet into. My nana and checked one and let's back take. Care and about you can set. Your pain sometimes I'm sorry I couldn't help over here we're ahead of you but we'd really like you to have our table oh no I'm no reason possibly I'm just we don't like to pay for your meal it's always fun to watch Jessica Lange and she throws herself into this role with so much enthusiasm and abandon it's impossible not to be entertained by ear. But the rest of the politician doesn't draw you in as much you watch all its twists and turns and sudden mood shifts but without really caring about or even believing the characters and Murphy who almost always starts new series stronger than he ends them appears to get bored with this series premise about halfway through and reboot it once or twice before the 8 episode season is over and as it ends preparing for a season to it reboot again with Bette Midler in Judas lite showing up only for the season finale whether the politician ends up being a success for Netflix will depend on it short term buzz and long term views creatively season one is better than the last few seasons of American Horror Story but not as good as feud the politician already succeeded for Netflix However in one key regard it's Ryan Murphy's newest t.v. Series and it's not on f.x. Or Fox it's on Netflix. 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News in Washington I'm nor Rahm 3 House committees have issued subpoenas to Secretary of State Mike and you know requesting he provide documents related to President Trump and his dealings with the Ukrainian president as part of the impeachment inquiry the committee has also say they plan to call 5 State Department employees to testify the Trump campaign and the Republican Party are hitting the cable airwaves with ads about impeachment N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports according to the campaign in r. And c. They will spend a combined $10000000.00 to buy ad time on cable it's not clear yet how saturated the airwaves will be the ads go after former Vice President Joe Biden and House Democrats under an attempt to sway public opinion as the impeachment inquiry gets going they lost the election no they want to steal this $11.00 Republican veteran of the Clinton impeachment battle said to expect millions more to be unleashed putting pressure on lawmakers and amping up voter anxiety and fatigue along the way in a statement the chair. Of the Republican National Committee Rhonda McDaniel said this ad buy is just the beginning of an all out fight Tamara Keith n.p.r. News former Dallas police officer Amber Geiger testified at her murder trial Friday that she was in fear for her life when she fatally shot an unarmed man in what she thought was her apartment from member station in a stellar job as reports Amber Geiger says the apartment door was cracked open when she put her key in the lock she says in the darkness she saw the silhouette of a figure approach and that she yelled let me see your hands but Geiger was actually in the apartment directly above hers and that person wasn't an intruder he was 26 year old both I'm shocked. They deserved. This. Prosecutors say Geiger could have avoided killing Shawn and she followed police training on how to deescalate tense situations for n.p.r. News I'm Stella Chavez in Dallas Swedish activist gratitude to climate March in Montreal Friday as people demonstrated across Canada and the Jacobs reports Isabel Marguerite's came to March with her 2 children and motioned to her pregnant belly when explaining why she feels strongly about addressing climate change we need a planet for my future babies. And my kids many children and teens came to March including 15 year old Emily it's big it is such a great movement specially it's been running from like a 16 year old before the March to Mark spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately she said afterwards that she told him that he like all political leaders needs to listen and act on the science for n.p.r. News I'm Emily Jacobs in Montreal You're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. Fan Chrysler has agreed to pay $40000000.00 to settle a complaint that it misled investors by overstating monthly sales numbers the Securities and Exchange Commission said the carmaker had inflated sales by paying dealers to report fake numbers between 2012 and 26 teams the maker of the allergy drug Epi-Pen has agreed to pay the government $30000000.00 to settle charges that it didn't properly disclose possible losses resulting from a government probe into its blockbuster medication N.P.R.'s Yuki Noguchi reports the Securities and Exchange Commission charged pharmaceutical maker Mylan with accounting and disclosure failures that stemmed from a related Justice Department case in 2016 that charged Mylan with mis classifying its most profitable product in order to line his pockets at Medicaid's expense the Justice Department conducted a 2 year investigation that resulted in Milan paying nearly half a $1000000000.00 to settle those charges Meanwhile the f.c.c. 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