Live Event: Movie Night for New Yorker Radio Hour Listeners

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Adam Howard (0:26)

Hey, New Yorker Radio Hour listeners. I'm Adam Howard, senior producer of the show.

Like you, I'm 100 percent focused on the election this week. We all know it's a big one. But I'm reaching out to you today because for those of you who live in New York City, or maybe are just visiting from out of town, I want to invite you to a movie screening we're doing this Friday, November the 6th. Yes, regardless of what happens with the election, there will still be movies. I know for me, my love of film has kept me somewhat sane over the past couple of years.

This Friday at 7 p.m., New Yorker film critic Richard Brody is joining me to watch a cult classic and a landmark in black cinema. That's a favorite for both of us. I'm going to bet that most of you have never seen it, possibly never even heard of it.

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I'm so far ahead of you.

I know what you're about to say. I know what you're thinking. I know what you're writing on those evaluation papers. I know that you're wearing an incredibly cheap toupee. I mean, I could sit here and punch all the right buttons and make you think you're a genius, correctly analyzing this complex, exotic, notorious Negro, but notorious Negro. That'd be a good name for my autobiography.

Adam Howard (1:36)

The film is Chameleon Street. Now is your chance to see this film and join a Q&A with me and Richard Brody. I hope you might consider coming out at the end of this crazy week to watch the movie, and then we'll have a conversation about it. Find out how to get tickets at wnyc.org/events.

That's wnyc.org/events.

Ava Kaufman (2:00)

One day last year, police entered a mansion in LA. County and discovered the couple that lived there had almost two dozen children, nearly every one of them born through surrogates. But those surrogates had been deceived.

I started crying.

Adam Howard (2:17)

I was like, what the heck did I just get myself into?

Ava Kaufman (2:21)

I'm Ava Kaufman.

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