Remembering Actor Anne Heche

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We remember actor Anne Heche, who died Sunday at age 53. She starred in Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog, Six Days, Seven Nights, and Walking and Talking. Early in her career, she made headlines when she had a relationship with Ellen Degeneres. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2000.

Also, we listen back to our 2015 interview with actor Jonathan Banks, who co-starred as fixer and hitman Mike Ehrmantraut on Better Call Saul.

Ken Tucker reviews the new album by Loudon Wainwright III about growing older, and John Powers reviews the new documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm David Beane-Kooley, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, Infra Terry Gross.
0:07.4	We're going to remember actress Anne Hayse, who died Sunday after a highly publicized car crash. She was 53 years old.
0:15.4	Hayse got her start in the soap opera Another World, while just out of high school.
0:20.9	She starred off as a Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman in Wagged the Dog,
0:27.5	and Harrison Ford in the Romantic comedy Six Days Seven Nights.
0:32.2	Here's a clip from that film, in which she and Ford end up crashing on a remote tropical island
0:38.1	after the plane he's piloting gets struck by lightning.
0:41.4	Where are we?
0:43.0	Here.
0:44.2	Where?
0:45.4	Where?
0:46.7	Somewhere between Macatia and Tahiti. That's the best I can do for you.
0:52.8	Whoa! What happened?
0:57.4	A crumple of the landing gear when we hit.
1:00.6	Well, are you going to fix it? I mean, can't we... can't we reach Hayse to somehow?
1:05.8	Oh, sure. We'll, like, glue it back on. How's that?
1:10.2	Why is she one of those guys?
1:12.6	What guys?
1:15.0	Those guys, you know, those guys with skills.
1:18.2	Skills?
1:19.8	Yeah, you send them out into the wilderness with a pocket knife and a Q-tip and they build you a shopping mall.
1:25.7	You can't do that?
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