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Brendan Gill Discusses His New Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright and His Career at The New Yorker.

Brendan Gill. He has written for The New Yorker magazine for more than 50 years, writing poems, prose, profiles and film and theater reviews. Gill also writes about architecture and has just written a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Other segments from the episode on November 12, 1987

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 12, 1987: Interview with Brendan Gill; Review of Robbie Robertson's album "Robbie Robertson"; Interview with John Boorman; Review of the film "Cry Freedom."
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"Cry Freedom" is Too Afraid to Be the Movie It Could Be.

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Cry Freedom," starring Kevin Kline as South African journalist Donald Woods, and Denzel Washington as anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko. The movie portrays the friendship that developed between Woods, a white reporter, and Biko, one of the leading foes of apartheid. "Cry Freedom" is directed by Richard Attenborough.

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