Now What? With Carole Zimmer

In 2023, 83-year old Dr. Anthony Fauci retired as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a job he'd held for 38 years. Once called "America's Doctor," Dr. Fauci had...

9 Jan 202450min

Filmmaker Lisa Cortes brought a 1950s rock 'n' roll legend to life again in her rollicking new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything. Richard, who was known for hits like Long Tall Sally and Tut...

26 Des 202338min

I was so lucky to have spent a few hours with Norman Lear who recently died at the age of 101. Lear was 95 at the time we talked. In the 1970s he created a television empire with shows that dominated ...

12 Des 202337min

Charles Busch made a name for himself as a playwright and a leading lady in drag with productions like the off-Broadway cult classic Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. That campy theatrical spoof was followed...

28 Nov 202352min

Paulina Porizkova, who was a supermodel in the 80s, has one of those rags to riches stories which she talked with me about on "Now What?" in December 2022. That conversation has just been honored with...

13 Nov 202346min

When it comes to the word prolific, Walter Mosley fits right in. He's written about 60 books. His latest is the sci-fi novella Touched. Mosley's first work of crime fiction, Devil in a Blue Dress, fea...

31 Okt 202346min

Roz Chast is an award-winning cartoonist who started working for the New Yorker 45 years ago. Her comics examine our everyday neuroses and anxieties. As an only child growing up in Brooklyn, Chast wor...

16 Okt 202344min

Avi Loeb is probably the most famous practicing astronomer in the country. He's the founding director of Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative and was the longest-serving chair of Harvard's Depar...

3 Okt 202350min