Fresh Air, Nick Park, Peter Lord, Freddy Roman, and Jeffrey Ross

De: Terry Gross

Narrado por: Terry Gross

Duración: 45 m

Resumen del Editor

Co-directors/co-producers of Chicken Run Nick Park and Peter Lord, Dean of the New York Friars' Club Freddy Roman, and comic Jeffrey Ross on this edition of Fresh Air. Park is the academy award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace and Gromit. Lord is Chairman and co-founder of the clay animation studios Aardman, where Park created his short films featuring Wallace and Gromit (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.) The two collaborated on their first full-length feature film, Chicken Run, an animated escape film with chickens as the escapers. (Original Broadcast Date: June 19, 2000) The 1999 documentary film, Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars provides an inside look at the club where show business entertainers meet and then roast each other. Such comic luminaries as George Burns, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, as well as entertainers Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, and Irving Berlin were members of the Friars club. Listen back to an interview with two current members of the Friars - Dean Freddy Roman and comic Jeffrey Ross. Both are featured in the documentary. (Original Broadcast Date: October 25, 2000)

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