‘Los Espookys,’ Stonewall on film and mistaking ‘multiple discoveries’ for stolen ideas

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega — two of the co-creators, writers, producers and stars of the new HBO series “LosEspookys.” Gauging how films have shaped — and skewed — our understanding of the Stonewall uprising, with Mark Segal, who participated in the riots, and Jude Dry, a film and television critic at IndieWire. And the phenomenon of “multiple discovery,” when artists come up with the same idea independently, but tend to suspect their idea was stolen.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.0	In Los Spookies, I play Andres.
0:11.0	He is the adopted heir to a chocolate empire.
0:15.0	Creators and stars of the Cookie, yeah,
0:18.0	Cookey, new HBO comedy Loses Spookies
0:21.2	introduces to their characters.
0:23.3	He is the kind of person
0:24.8	who I'm attracted to, which is humorless.
0:27.5	He's sort of like the human version
0:29.1	of Fainting Couch.
0:31.8	Plus,
0:33.2	if you wish to get any of us
0:35.5	who were Stonewall, D.L.F. Angry. all you have to do is mention the myth of Judy Garland.
0:41.0	The idea that Judy Garland's death in 1969 set off the Stonewall riots and other things Hollywood gets wrong about the opening battle for gay liberation.
0:51.0	We were 18 years old. We were in the stonewall dancing our asses off.
0:56.5	You don't dance your ass off to Judy O'Arland.
1:00.1	That and more is ahead on Studio 360, right after this.
1:09.5	This is Studio 360.
1:12.9	I'm Cornetian, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:14.3	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dower.
1:16.1	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
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