Neda Ulaby

YouTube trends: Politics, pop but education and science, too

Neda Ulaby — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:46:39 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGINaRUEkU

Nora Ephron: A singular voice who penned 'Sleepless in Seattle' many others

Neda Ulaby — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:59:00 +0000

Nora Ephron brought us two of the most indelible scenes in contemporary cinema — and they're startlingly different.

There's the infamous "Silkwood shower," from the 1983 movie, with Meryl Streep as a terrified worker at a nuclear power plant, being frantically scrubbed after exposure to radiation.

Then there's the scene in which Meg Ryan drives home a point to Billy Crystal at Katz's Deli, in 1989's When Harry Met Sally.

Etta James, 'Matriarch of the Blues,' has died

Neda Ulaby — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:47:47 +0000
The "Matriarch of the Blues" has died. Music legend Etta James died Friday morning at Riverside Community Hospital in California of complications from leukemia. She was 73.
She was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938. Her first manager and promoter cut up Jamesetta's name and reversed it: Etta James.
Her talent was discovered when she was 14 — the same age her mother was when James was born. Within three years, the foster-home runaway had her first hit, with the girl group The Peaches.

Stephen Colbert wants you to know: That's definitely not his superPAC

Neda Ulaby — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:27:59 +0000
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert is running for president. He's parodying the process — including, now, superPACS — in the same way he has parodied cable news. He's getting plenty of attention, but to really look into his political practical joke, I needed to go upstairs and find Peter Overby, NPR's man on campaign finance. I warned him it would seem like a dumb question, but I needed his help. What, exactly, is a superPAC?
"Welcome to my world," he told me. "It's nuts.