Mick LaSalle, author of Dream State: California in the Movies, and film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded as a Zoom event for KPFA, edited for audio. A wide-ranging discussion that includes a look at the work of French director Eric Rohmer, movie viewing during the pandemic, the rise of long-form television, and the real reason why Dorothy should never have gone back to Kansas.

Third in a series of interviews recorded for an abandoned documentary on George Gershwin. Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007) dated George Gershwin for three years in the mid-1930s. In this brief phone interview from 2001, she discusses her relationship with the composer, as well as her work with the Marx brothers and in the early days of television. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Jack Arnold was the most important director of science fiction films in the 1950s, including “It Came From Outer Space,” “Creature from the Black Lagoon” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” among others. He also directed the Peter Sellers classic “The Mouse That Roared.” In 1980, the Probabilities crew, Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson and Richard Wolinsky interviewed Jack Arnold in his office at Universal Pictures in Hollywood. This in-depth interview has never been presented in its entirety, and has not been available for nearly forty years. Digitized and re-edited by Richard Wolinsky in July, 2021.

Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love,” and other novels, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The interview was first aired August 18, 2011 following the publication of “Thoughts Without Cigarettes,” a memoir, and “Beautiful Maria of My Soul,” a sequel to “Mambo Kings.”