Why Yanni happened

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck about his new film “Never Look Away,” and why the director interviewed the artist Gerhard Richter extensively to make a film that is only kind of about Richter. Plus, how Yanni, John Tesh and other musicians discovered an improbable vehicle to ‘90s stardom: the PBS pledge drive. Nat King Cole would be 100 this week, and to celebrate: an appreciation from both his biographer, David Mark Epstein, and actor Dulé Hill, who is currently playing Cole on-stage.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.8	I'm Kurt Annes.
0:10.3	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.8	This first level of garden.
0:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.0	I like to have the roasted chicken paste.
0:17.8	Very well done.
0:18.8	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.5	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.1	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.5	Studio 360.
0:27.6	It's good. Anderson.
0:31.3	I believe that fact can be a great starting point for fiction.
0:35.7	This is the German filmmaker, Florian Henkel von Donersmark.
0:39.4	You know, the word in German for fiction is actually the same word that is used for poetry and for
0:45.7	density.
0:46.8	So it's Dichtonk.
0:47.9	And I think that's a beautiful way of looking at fiction.
0:51.3	It's made of the same stuff as reality.
0:53.7	It's just been compressed in this extreme way. It's just much more dense. It's made of the same stuff as reality. It's just been compressed in this extreme
0:55.6	way. It's just much more dense. There's more truth per cubic inch of fiction than there is
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