Salon Talks

When Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin began to craft the characters in his rendition of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the Broadway stage, he honed in on the town’s unemployed villain, Bob Ewell, and gave him real anxieties inspired by today’s right-wing politics. “I'll tell you where I went to find Bob Ewell, Breitbart,” Sorkin tells Salon. “A lot of Bob Ewell's dialogue was written by commenters at Breitbart. I'm not joking.” Ewell is the victim of poverty, Sorkin explained, and he is able to articulate an anger to Atticus Finch that the other Bob Ewells in the book and movie versions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” didn’t touch on. According to Sorkin, Ewell’s thing is, "You think you're better than me? You look down on me. You think you're better than me?" Sorkin also opens up about the long, difficult, and very engaging process of adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage, currently on Broadway until September, and how America’s deeply divided politics—including Trump’s presidency, his supporters and liberals, too—all informed and continue to bring new meaning to his version. --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com [http://Salon.com]. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com [http://Salon.com], and YouTube.Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv [https://www.youtube.com/salontv]Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon [https://www.facebook.com/salon]Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon [https://twitter.com/salon]Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial [https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial]

In her new Netflix comedy show, “Mr. Iglesias,” Emmy Award winner Sherri Shepherd plays a high school principal whose efficient, professional life runs at odds with her chaotic personal one. “It’s like they took a page from my book,” Shepherd shared. “She’s been married twice, she’s been divorced twice, and she’s looking for love.” The brainchild of comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, “Mr. Iglesias” is simultaneously an old school throwback to the classroom comedies of the “Welcome Back, Kotter” era, a socially conscious satire of modern education and a loving tribute to the teacher who changed Iglesias’s life. It’s a goal that resonates for Shepherd, both as a parent and a woman whose own life was changed by her second grade teacher back in Chicago. Shepherd also reflects on “The View,” the show she co-hosted from 2007 to 2014, and says it has forever changed talk show TV for women. --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com [http://Salon.com]. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com [http://Salon.com], and YouTube.Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv [https://www.youtube.com/salontv]Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon [https://www.facebook.com/salon]Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon [https://twitter.com/salon]Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial [https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial]

Comedian Louie Anderson says his Emmy Award-winning turn as Christine Baskets on the FX series “Baskets” is the role he was born to play. Basing on her on his own mother, Anderson opened up to SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks” about his deeply personal connection to Christine and her evolution over the show’s four seasons. “It was very emotional to shoot this character this year,” he said. “I had a lot of gut punches emotionally. A lot of tough things, where I had to ask myself, ‘Was my mom ever this happy?’” --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com [http://Salon.com]. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com [http://Salon.com], and YouTube.Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv [https://www.youtube.com/salontv]Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon [https://www.facebook.com/salon]Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon [https://twitter.com/salon]Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial [https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial]

Author Jennifer Weiner has built a built a career writing the kind of female-friendly, relationship-oriented fiction that typically gets dismissed as "chick lit," with bestsellers like "Good In Bed," "In Her Shoes" and "Little Earthquakes." She's also spent nearly a decade challenging the elitism and sexism of book publishing and criticism. Her new novel, "Mrs. Everybody" is a culmination of Weiner's work as both a storyteller and a truth-teller, a sweeping multigenerational family saga against a backdrop of 70 years of women's history. On "Salon Talks," Weiner discusses family, Franzenfreude, and why guys should read "women's" literature. --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com [http://Salon.com]. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com [http://Salon.com], and YouTube.Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv [https://www.youtube.com/salontv]Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon [https://www.facebook.com/salon]Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon [https://twitter.com/salon]Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial [https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial]

With his new Netflix film “Always Be My Maybe,” Randall Park has become a full-fledged rom-com leading man. But when he was starting out, the industry didn’t see him that way. “I came from an Asian-American studies background. I wanted to be an actor because of that,” he recalled to SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks.” “I wanted to go out there and represent. I didn’t realize how little power I’d have in that at the beginning.” Five years later, Park says, he’s at a place where he can tell the stories he wants to tell in his own voice, including a longtime passion project he wrote with and co-stars in with Ali Wong, “Always Be My Maybe,” now on Netflix. --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com [http://Salon.com]. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com [http://Salon.com], and YouTube.Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv [https://www.youtube.com/salontv]Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon [https://www.facebook.com/salon]Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon [https://twitter.com/salon]Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial [https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial]