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An InsideOut Editorial by Owen Lipstein

 

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Since his Broadway debut at age 10, Giancarlo Esposito has been acting in films from Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X,” to Michael Mann’s “Ali” and Bryan Singer’s “The Usual Suspects,” as well as television’s “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “NYPD Blue,” and “Law & Order.” His directorial debut, recently screened at our very own Woodstock Film Festival, is the film “Gospel Hill,” about the residents of a small Southern town who are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar golf course development. The cast includes Danny Glover, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles and Samuel L. Jackson. We’re grateful just knowing that Giancarlo is in the world, and even more so that he has ties to the Hudson Valley.

James Howard Kunstler’s 10th novel, World Made By Hand (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008), is a fictional follow-up to The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change and Other Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Grove/Atlantic, 2005). The frequent contributor to The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Atlantic Monthly sat down to talk with us about why we shouldn’t—necessarily—be afraid of the future.

If you’re wondering where America is headed, you might start by asking this man. Eminent pollster John Zogby is the president and CEO of Zogby International, whose media clients include Reuters, NBC News, MSNBC and C-Span, as well as a frequent guest on shows ranging from “Today,” to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” In his new book The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House, 2008), Zogby conducts thousands of surveys searching for clues.

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