Bookwaves/Artwaves
The Bookwaves/Artwaves Hour is devoted to one interview this week.
Noel Casler, since 2018, has developed a large Twitter following based on his violation of an NDA, revealing information about Donald Trump gleaned from his six years working on the Celebrity Apprentice program, and before that, watching Trump in action at a teenage beauty pageant. He is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Today a stand-up comedian working on a book about his experiences, Noel Casler spent two decades working behind the scenes at live events as a celebrity handler, with such stars as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and many others. But it was in 2015, having experienced Donald Trump on multiple occasions, that he decided to forgo his career and speak on the record about what he knew, first with the Clinton campaign (which chose not to follow up because of hubris and overconfidence) and later on Twitter, where he has amassed close to 300,000 followers.
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empathy
Years ago, I spent time with Martin Buber’s prolific writings while preparing for a conversation with my dear friend Josh Kornbluth, who was working on his monologue at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum entitled “
Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?” where Buber was one of 10 exhibited Warhol portraits. Warhol famously had little regard for the significance of his subjects and was more concerned with their appeal to willing, wealthy buyers. His handwritten notation next to Buber’s name made that clear. He scribbled “