Best Of: Angela Lansbury / Culture Critic Hua Hsu

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🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The legend of stage and screen died Oct. 11 at age 96. She starred in the TV series Murder, She Wrote and won Tony Awards for her performances as Mama Rose in Gypsy and the pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. We'll hear excerpts from Terry Gross's interviews with Lansbury from 2000 and 1980.

Justin Chang reviews The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell.

The son of Taiwanese immigrants, New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu defined himself as a teen by the music he loved. The murder of a close friend when he was in college changed the course of his life. His memoir is Stay True.

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0:00.0	From WHY Y in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:04.3	I'm Sam Brigger in Frateri Gross.
0:06.8	Today, we remember Angela Landsbury, who died earlier this month at the age of 96.
0:11.9	She won Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway as Mama Rose and Gypsy,
0:16.3	and the pie shop owner Mrs. Love It and Swini Todd.
0:19.5	And she starred in the TV series Murder She Wrote.
0:23.5	Also, New Yorker culture critic, Wash Shoe, talks about the things that formed his identity.
0:28.1	He's the son of immigrants from Taiwan who defined himself by his musical obsessions
0:32.8	after falling in love with Nirvana, just before they became famous.
0:37.4	Life then was full of mixed tapes.
0:39.9	He became close friends with a Japanese American college classmate named Ken.
0:44.3	Three years later, Ken was carjacked and killed.
0:47.6	That murder changed the course of Wash Shoe's life.
0:50.1	His memoir is called Stay True.
0:53.1	And Justin Chang reviews the new film The Banshees of Inesherent.
0:57.6	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:59.1	I'm Sam Brigger in Frateri Gross.
1:01.9	Broadway dimmed the lights last weekend,
1:03.9	and tribute to Angela Landsbury.
1:06.0	The acclaimed film and music actress and star of the TV series Murder She Wrote died on October 11th.
1:12.4	She was 96.
1:14.5	Landsbury delivered unforgettable performances for her starring roles in the Broadway musical's
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