Fresh Air, Anna Deveare Smith and Julia Query
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Narrated by:
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Terry Gross
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Terry Gross
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Actress and playwright Anna Deveare Smith and writer, director and exotic dancer Julia Query on this edition of Fresh Air. Deveare Smith is best known for her one-woman plays based on hundreds of interviews she did with diverse people who experienced a crisis in their community. They include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 about the Rodney King verdict, and Fires in the Mirror about the Crown Heights disturbances. Her most recent show House Arrest took her to Washington DC to interview politicians and pundits, and it involves a community not in crisis. She has also written a memoir, Talk to Me. Query's documentary is Live Nude Girls, Unite! about a group of strippers in San Francisco who fought to start a union. Now they have the only union of exotic dancers in the US. The women decided unite when they realized they were being illegally filmed by customers in special one-way mirrors. Using a consumer grade Hi8 camera, first time director Query filmed the actions of the workers. She is also a performance artist and stand-up comic, who started dancing as a way to pay the bills. (Broadcast Date: November 6, 2000)
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