Who's Behind Those Eyes?
Curious City
WBEZ Chicago
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2013
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Chicago International Film Festival’s logo has intrigued movie buffs for decades. But is that Charlie Chaplin? Liza Minelli? Here’s the backstory.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Stu Sweet from Valparaiso, Indiana, and this WBEZ podcast is made possible with the support of listeners like me. |
| 0:16.1 | I use WB.E.Z to recharge my mind the way I use food and sleep to recharge my body. |
| 0:24.1 | Who is the... |
| 0:24.7 | What is going to be? |
| 0:25.6 | When are it called? |
| 0:27.2 | How many... |
| 0:27.5 | How many people? |
| 0:29.0 | I was wondering. |
| 0:29.6 | How much are we going to get our... |
| 0:33.1 | What is the... |
| 0:33.8 | You're listening to the Curious City podcast from WBeeZ, Chicago. You asked the... What? You're listening to the Curious City podcast from WBEZ Chicago. |
| 0:40.9 | You asked the questions. |
| 0:42.6 | We answer them together. |
| 0:45.9 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm Sean Ali, Curious City editor. |
| 0:49.4 | And for those of you who are not familiar with Curious City, it's basically WBEZ's news gathering |
| 0:55.1 | experiment where you give us questions and we all find answers together. And speaking of |
| 1:00.4 | togetherness, I have WBEZ Arts and Culture Reporter, Alison Cuddy with me here right now. |
| 1:05.8 | Hello, Sean. Hey there. So, Alison, you took on a Curious City question. Why don't you lay that on us right now? What was the question and what was this all about? It was all about the Chicago International Film Festival. It's the longest running competitive film festival in North America. And one of the stalwarts of the fest is the logo. And it caught the attention of John Laffler, who owns a microbrewery here in Chicago. |
| 1:28.9 | He wanted to know whose ubiquitous eyes are on the poster for the film festival, and is she single? |
| 1:36.8 | Nice question, nice question. |
| 1:38.7 | And for people who are not familiar with the logo, why don't you tell us a little bit about what it looks like? |
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