Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

We speak with Dr. Samuel Jay Keyser, an emeritus member of the faculty at MIT and author of "Play it again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts." In this book, Professor Keyser explores how and why we experience pleasure and satisfaction when we encounter repetition in music, poetry, and visual arts. What exactly is going on in the brain? What is the nature of the pleasure we experience?

From 1999- more from Michael Schumacher, talking about his book "Francis Ford Coppola: a Filmmaker's Life." Earlier this year, Coppola became the 50th person to receive the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Earlier this year, Francis Ford Coppola became the 50th person to be granted the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award- and the star-studded ceremony where he was presented the award was recently telecast on Turner Classic Movies. In honor of that, we are resharing our 1999 interview with Kenosha author Michael Schumacher in which we talk about his book "Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life." Coppola is renowned for directing and/or producing such films as "The Godfather," "The Godfather II," "Apocalypse Now," "The Outsiders," "Peggy Sue Got Married," "American Graffiti," and "The Cotton Club."

We preview a fun event planned for this Friday at the Uptown Library in Kenosha to celebrate its 100th anniversary ..... a video game competition.

We speak with best-selling author J. Randy Taraborelli about his most recent book- "JFK- Public, Private, Secret." It is, in many ways, the culmination of several decades of research that he has done into the Kennedy family in the course of writing half a dozen books about the Kennedys. His previous book, crafted in a very similar fashion, is titled "Jackie- Public, Private, Secret." Taraborelli has also written best-selling biographies of Frank Sinatra, Princess Grace, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and - perhaps most famously- Diana Ross with the book "Call Her Miss Ross."

Today's program is the first visit to the Morning Show of Dr. Morgan Phillips, Interim President and CEO of Gateway Technical College. We talk about his long and varied professional career- his initial impressions of Gateway Technical College- and also touch on the profound hearing loss he experienced in his mid-forties and the amazing technological interventions that have made such a powerful difference for the better.

From 2008- Dr. Wilkie Wilson, co-author of "Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy." The book has been released in at least two more editions since this one.

From 2003- Ron Fry, author of "101 Smart Questions to Ask on your Interview." The book was written to help people be more effective when interviewing for a new job. The book has been re-released in several new editions in the years since.

Our program opens with Amy Greil, executive director of the Kenosha Community Foundation, and Cheryl Hernandez, executive director of the Kenosha Literacy Council. We round out the program with a 2007 interview with Tom Miller, editor of "How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life."

Part One- We welcome Robb Woulfe, executive director of the Racine Art Museum, for his first visit to the Morning Show. R.A.M. is one of the finest museums of its kind in the Midwest. Woulfe succeeded Bruce Pepitch as executive director in January of this year. Part Two- We preview this Sunday's Starving Artists Fair with coordinator Jayne Herring. The event occurs on the beautiful grounds of Racine's DeKoven Center between 9 am and 4 pm.

Tiffany D. Jackson talks about her latest book for young readers, "Blood in the Water."

Best-selling author Gordon Korman talks about his latest book for young readers ..... "Snoop" ..... which is an intriguing and entertaining exploration of the way in which young people get addicted to screens.

Jeremy Lent, author of "The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning"

More from Winnetka, Illinois native Bill Hulseman, talking about his essay collection titled "six to carry the casket and one to say the mass: reflections on life, identity, and moving forward." Hulseman grew up in a Roman Catholic family where he was the youngest of ten children (and the youngest of seven sons). In this second interview, we talk about his dad's love of poetry, his mom's struggles with alcohol, and some of Hulseman's most important life experiences, including singing in the Boston Gay Men's Chorus.

From 2022 .... Steve Binder was the director of Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback TV special - and has written a book that gives the reader a remarkable behind-the-scenes perspective on how this special took shape.

From 2005 - Michael Streissguth, author of "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece."

We speak with two librarians from the Racine Public Library - Viridiana Rocha and Keiko Skow - about the library's Japanese Cultural Exchange series. (Two more events are coming up in the next several days.)

We reconnect with local historian Steven Rogstad about his latest book "The Million Dollar Quartet and the Challenges of Oral Testimony." The title refers to four legendary musicians- Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis- who converged on a Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee in 1956 for what turned out to be a spontaneous jam session .... some of which was recorded and ultimately shared with the world. In the book, Rogstad seeks to gain some clarity on what exactly happened on that memorable occasion- and how a serious historian goes about such a task.

I speak with Bill Hulseman, author of a collection of personal essays titled "six to carry the casket and one to say the mass: reflections on life, identity and moving forward." Hulseman grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Winnetka, Illinois- and eventually went into Catholic education as his profession - but did so as someone who happened to be gay. The essays gathered together in this book explore many facets of his childhood, his relationship to his parents, siblings and school mates, his evolving relationship to his religion and the Roman Catholic church, and the ways in which various facets of pop culture (e.g. television shows like 'Designing Women' or singers like Madonna) helped him develop a clearer sense of his own identity and his place in the world. And yes .... we also give the author a chance to explain the title of his book. Hulseman is returning to his hometown of Winnetka, Illinois for a book signing this Tuesday evening, July 29th, 6:00, at The Book Stall.

We talk with Sandra Johnson about the 50th Williams Bay Fine Arts and Crafts Fair, which happens this coming weekend.