Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My family and I will be in Ithaca, New York for the holiday. I hope you will enjoy an encore broadcast of my interview with Dr. Jeanine Basinger, the founder of the Wesleyan University Cinema Archive, which aired initially August 22. As you know, Jeanine is a great friend of the show, appearing nearly every year to highlight a facet of Hollywood history. Today’s topic: the utopian/fantasy films of the 1930s such as Ronald Colman’s Lost Horizon.

Also, we’ll be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), whose private papers reside at the Archive.

Ed is delighted to welcome back University Musical Society President, Kenneth C. Fischer. Ken will regale us with performance details about UMS’ superb new season, as well as stories ‘from the Hill.’ Of special note is President Obama’s awarding of The National Medal of Arts to UMS, which Ken received personally from the President during a recent ceremony at The White House..

More at: ums.org

Ed is delighted to welcome back Dr. Salvador Salort-Pons, now Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, who will showcase the European Romantic movement by describing renowned examples of art from the DIA’s permanent collection.

More at: dia.org

Tune in as Ed regales us with ‘all things Halloween” in art, from European and American paintings, books, films and fables (particularly of the Gothic variety) to African sculpture.