** That's where we are right now - as you watch the system unravel..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on piracy prosperity, pickup trucks, mafia wives, layoffs, robots, and worker economic beatdown...

** "Stanley Kubrick had the darkest sense of humor, which I loved - and we got on really well mainly because of that, actually..."

Malcolm McDowell Talks The Partisan, His Rupert Murdoch in Bombshell, Dog & Bull, Alec Guiness, Nazis, World War III, Dr. Strangelove - and memories of Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange.

And what in the world happened to British espionage cult figure, Krystyna Skarbeck, as portrayed in The Partisan being bossed around by McDowell's espionage chief, code named 'Trench Coat.' And Skarbeck as Churchill's favorite spy, reinvented by enamored Ian Fleming as Vesper Lynd in the Bond caper, Casino Royale - yet in real life ending up mopping floors for a living.

** "There's something creepy about it, isn't there, a very disturbing father, a belligerence in the way he's presenting himself, the viewer as a threat to his property - we don't know if Grant Wood did so seriously, or ironically as a caricature..."

Hearing Art Interlude. The Canvas art essayist, Shawn Grenier, on the enigma of why famed Heartland artist Grant Wood's American Gothic became iconic. Homage or parody - 'America's struggle to find its own artistic identity, or the impossibility of American myth building...'

** "The main problem occurs at the end, which I will not give away - except to say that this is the old dramatic canard that, as French director Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons..."

Bro On The Global Television Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the South African thriller series, Lioness. 'A Capetown caper where every household is gated, unremarked upon symbols of the disparity between the two worlds. Where one flaunts its wealth behind a layer of security - and perpetuating the Africaner fear of the black population who they've ruled over and abused for centuries...'