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Scorsese Return to New York.

Film critic John Powers reviews Martin Scorsese's new film "Bringing Out the Dead."

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Other segments from the episode on October 22, 1999

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 22, 1999: Interview with Ringo Starr; Interview with Cynthia Lennon; Review of the film "Bringing Out the Dead."
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Cultural Heroes and One-of-a-Kinds: Cynthia Lennon's Life with John.

Cynthia Lennon was the first wife of Beatle musician John Lennon. Terry talked with Cynthia in 1985. . She wrote a book about her years with Lennon in 1978 called "A Twist of Lennon." They met in art school in 1957 and were married in 1962. During the years John toured the world, as a member of the most popular rock group in history, Cynthia was at home raising their son Julian. Cynthia and John Lennon divorced in 1968 after John fell in love with Yoko Ono. John Lennon was killed 12 years later.

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Co-Founders of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps James "Rocky" Robinson and Joe Perez.

Co-founders of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corp. James "Rocky" Robinson and Joe Perez. They began the corp in 1988, after watching people die because the Ambulances responded too slowly to calls. (There are 39 volunteer ambulance corps in New York City). They are the focus of a new "The American Promise" PBS documentary. (The program premiered October 1).

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Horror-comedy 'Beau Is Afraid' is a passion project gone astray

Having made a name for himself with the A24-released horror pictures "Hereditary" and "Midsommar," the writer-director Ari Aster has a new movie in theaters. It's called "Beau Is Afraid." And it tells the darkly comic story of a man named Beau, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who's just trying to get home to visit his mother.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

Alexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, Viva, Auder and Auder's younger half-sister, Gaby Hoffmann, lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. It was was famous for having been home to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thomson, and Bob Dylan, among others.

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