Danny Fields & Judith Light

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Danny Fields is a music manager and publicist who was instrumental in signing and promoting some of the biggest names in Punk Rock history. This week, he and Jesse discuss his decision to leave the ivy league tract, his time in Andy Warhol's Factory, and what it was like managing The Ramones. Judith Light has had an almost 40 year acting career in which she's played strong female characters on shows like One LIfe To Live and Who's The Boss?. She is now continuing in this motif with her tenure on Broadway, winning two Tony Awards for her performances in the last 5 years, starring in a one woman show, and of course her groundbreaking performance in Transparent. Judith sits down with guest correspondent Keith Powell to discuss her work on Transparent, the cast's relationship with Jill Soloway, and the famous courtroom scene on One Life to LIve that launched her career. Jesse talks about Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some as a reflection of the necessity for people to fall into spells of nostalgia, even if just for 90 minutes.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:19.0	Look at his god these things.
0:22.0	I don't know.
0:24.0	That particular red telephone is not necessarily available to me.
0:28.0	I know. It's not.
0:30.0	If we live to be free on my Danny, that's why I'm checking in with you.
0:34.0	Since you asked so brilliantly, yeah.
0:39.0	That's what it was. It was gorgeous and spectacular.
0:44.0	It was like you were opening up.
0:47.0	I'm Jesse Thorn. That was Danny Field.
0:49.0	He was describing what it was like to go from a Harvard Law student
0:53.0	to being one of the earliest members of Andy Warhol's factory in the early 60s.
0:58.0	Danny spent decades in the music business helping shape the careers of artists like the doors,
1:03.0	Nico, Lou Reed, and the Ramones who we actually managed for a while in the 70s.
1:09.0	They were so fully formed the Ramones were that there was no artistic contribution I could have made
1:17.0	and had there been the need for one I would not have been interested in working with them.
1:22.0	They actually ended up writing a pretty good song about him too. It's Bullseye.
1:34.0	Coming up, I'll talk to Danny Fields.
1:36.0	His first job in the music business was as an editor for a teen magazine, a covered pop music.
1:41.0	At one point, he ran a front page quote with John Lennon saying,
1:44.0	he didn't know what would go first.
1:47.0	Christianity are the Beatles.
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