into luxury interiors but we start off with steve mcqueen and i don't mean the late actor rather the other steve mcqueen whose remarkable career as an artist director and screenwriter has won him acclaim across disciplines and most people know him for his films which include titles like shame and of course the oscar winning 12 years a slave but he's also a winner of the turner prize highest award for visual artists and now the tate modern is on knowing him with a major exhibition. the york statue of liberty and this video work titled static steve mcqueen shows her so close that the viewer can even make out across a bird droppings america's symbol of freedom held up to close scrutiny. and what is freedom to a prisoner mcqueen 1st displayed this installation at reading jail the same prison where writer oscar wilde was locked up. mcqueen often takes a closer look then as comfortable in his works at the tate modern's new retrospective. of course these days mcqueen is best known as one of the world's top film directors whose movies are as unflinching as his art. is acclaimed debut film hu

mcqueen's most recent film. about a group of women forced into crime was ranked by critics as one of the best movies of 2800 years. and see what i think. the before his film career mcqueen was known as one of britain's top artists the tate modern retrospective shows the last 20 years of his art. in the ongoing work and credits made up of heavily redacted f.b.i. documents mcqueen pays homage to the singer and civil rights activist paul robeson who was followed by the f.b.i. for decades. the video installation ashes pays tribute to a young fisherman mcqueen met and grenada who was killed the following year by drug dealers. mcqueen's uncompromising vision comes through in works that grapple with issues of identity and history and leave plenty of room for interpretation. plenty of room. levitz to talk a little bit more about what is it that strikes you most about steve mcqueen the artist and of course this very compact exhibition well i think that he's been making such good movies for the last 10 years that we've go

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but we start off with steve mcqueen and i don't mean the late actor rather the other steve mcqueen whose remarkable career as an artist director and screenwriter has won him acclaim across disciplines and most people know him for his films which include titles like shame and of course the oscar winning 12 years a slave but he's also a winner of the turner prize buttons highest award for visual artists and now the tate modern in london is honoring him with a major exhibition. yorks doubt she with liberty in this video work titled static steve mcqueen shows her so close to the viewer can even make out the crossed of bird droppings america's symbol of freedom held up to. and what is freedom to a prisoner mcqueen 1st displayed this installation at reading jail this.

but we start off with steve mcqueen and i don't mean the late actor rather the other steve mcqueen whose remarkable career as an artist director and screenwriter has won him acclaim across disciplines and most people know him for his films which include titles like shame and of course the oscar winning 12 years a slave but he's also a winner of the turner prize britain's highest award for visual artists and now the tate modern in london is honoring him with a major exhibition. york's statue of liberty and this video work titled static steve mcqueen shows her so close to the viewer can even make out a crust of bird droppings america's symbol of freedom. and what is freedom to a prisoner the queen 1st displayed this installation at reading jail the same.

i was a fourth-grader when hollywood released the great escape starring james mcqueen -- steve mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. all of the guys in my class fell in love with it. we would play at out at recess. each one of us would take one of the roles. of course all of us wanted to be mcqueen. he was the cooler one. i always was the one who got executed at the end of the movie. of course the queen -- mcqueen survives. the movie was based on a true story. the film gave us a real life ending to this story. only three of those men who escaped stayed escaped. and anothern pilots pilot from the netherlands, no americans. escape was not often tried and when it was it did not succeed. when it did, it really was an inspiration. it was often hollywood stuff. this is the third time david has spoken here at the library. the last was a little less than a year ago. he is an assistant professor of military history. from where she now ises in minnesota where she the dean of institutional effectiveness and liberal arts at the minnesota west community college. thank you so m

i was a fourth-grader when hollywood released the great --ape starring james mcqueen steve mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. all of the guys in my class fell in love with it. all of us wanted to be mcqueen. he survives. the movie was based on a true story. only three of those men who escaped state escaped. two norwegian pilots in another pilot from the netherlands. no americans. escape was not often tried and when it was it did not succeed. when it day, it really was an inspiration. it was often hollywood staff. this is the third time david has spoken here at the library. the last was a little less than a year ago. thank you so much for making the trip. these join us in welcoming both of them. [applause] >> good evening. thank you for coming out. looks like the weather is cooperating. last year we were supposed to have a couple of different presentations. they got canceled because of the weather. it is great to see everybody. thank you for coming out. we have been friends for about 10 years. two years ago, we decided to write this about p.o.w. escapes. we were

of course, mcqueen survives. what we didn't realize then and what we probably didn't care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and in 1944.from germany' the film pretty much gave us the real-life tragic ending to that story. only three of those men who escaped state escaped. two norwegian pilots, another pilot from the netherlands, no americans. werenly set -- other 73 killed or captured. more than two thirds of them were executed. the fact is, escaping is hard and it wasn't often tried during world war ii in particular and when it was, it often didn't succeed. when it did, it really was an inspiration and it was often hollywood stuff. book detailsla's during agents in tehran the 1979 hostage crisis, which was the basis for the best "argo."oscar-winner this is the third time david has spoken here at the library. last was a little over a year ago and we talked about the power pairing between dwight eisenhower and george marshall. kayla, who is a former kansas city re

referendum on macaroons presidency his party on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of mcqueen and some. paris. billionaire michael bloomberg has shaken up the u.s. democratic party's presidential candidate race with his 1st appearance at a primary debate in las vegas bloomberg is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign ads with rivals accusing him of vote buying and of a rally in neighboring arizona president trump didn't miss the chance to attack his democratic opponents. washington democrats had never been more extreme taking cues from crazy $37.00 have many mike has spent $411000000.00 as you did i tell you i was going to do it's probably not going to get the democratic nomination that i was going to you know i came up with the pocahontas to look too early. 2 but fortunately she's self destructed anyway did you ever see a phony like the democratic party is the party of hijacked high crime all things the wonders late term abortion socialism blate corruption and the total destruction of your 2nd amendment. to dig deeper we're going to be joined live by dave lindo

macaroons presidency and on his policy on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of mcqueen and some solid ski auti paris you're watching off international to stay with us plenty more news coming your way after this break. this 10 year period of 0 money velocity where money has gone directly into the pockets of the few oligarchs and countries of doors in america and around the world into these silos like these 12500000000 dollars properties when they when the infrastructure for that starts to crack and illiquid he starts to see balance you get inflation for real for stuff like food and we're seeing this happen now where people are noticing that the cost of every day living is starting to spike higher. in obesity and face your. kind of good intentions of i think we're in christian and maybe even 40 years ago there was simply evaporated and did not see the kind of pleasure wolf. welcome back on wednesday the u.k. home secretary unveiled a new points based visa system the move is intended to reduce the amount of cheap migrant labor flowing into the country. this is the 1st time

mcqueen! but could heading be a cause of dementia? well, the question has prompted action.ers are now banned during training. they're still allowed during matches, because the authorities say they are so rare. but those affected have mixed feelings. i don't really like to do it because it hurts my head sometimes. i love heading the ball while training. if a cross is coming in and it's going over your head, you can't really do anything else other than heading the ball, which makes it more useful. for budding young players like these, learning to head the ball has traditionally been a key skill. but the sport is facing growing questions over heading's long—term impact. research shows former players have increased chances of developing dementia. the former west brom striker‘s jeff astle's death was found to have been partly caused by heading. and his family welcome today's ban. children will still want to go and play football. they will still want to play in the teams, they will still get a lot of enjoyment out of it and want to play with their friends. but what it hopefully w

mcqueen! but could heading carry be a cause of dementia?sions. it is still allowed in matches because the authorities say it is relatively rare but, from those affected, there is a mixed response. i don't really like to do it because it hurts my head sometimes. i love heading the ball while training. if a cross is coming in and it's going over your head, you can't really do anything else other than heading the ball, which makes it more useful. for a budding young players learning to head the ball has traditionally been a key skill but the sport is facing growing questions over the long—term impact of heading the ball. children still want to play football and want to play with their friends but hopefully what it will do is reduce the risk of brain trauma. steve walsh is to play for leicester and now runs a youth academy and he says that things had to change. and now runs a youth academy and he says that things had to changelj scored says that things had to change.” scored all my goals with headers and you just think back, all those days of d

was part of that generation along with it his friend burt lancaster you could put paul newman steve mcqueen robert mitchum in and gregory peck a few other men in there they sort of moved to hollywood masculinity from the sort of the tough guy that never had to question to a guy who was a little more conflict in a little more problematic you know kirk douglas himself said he found virtue a little uninteresting he wanted to play men who had sort of darker sides and darker shades in a minute and i think he sort of so i think with his friends he and his peers he changed sort of our conception of masculinity a little bit in the fifty's and sixty's through his that terrific acting and then there's much more to the man than the movies isn't there he's widely credited with with bringing that the holywood blacklists to an end. just tell us more about it than to think that was a risky move for him at the time to stick his head above the parapet like that. absolutely it was a huge risk 1st just him being a producer at all it was not something that actors routinely did at the time and then for him to i

this is the character that steve mcqueen was based upon.e was known as the cooler king because he was captured and escaped several times. he was the basis for steve character appeared he volunteered for the royal canadian air force in june of 1940, earned his pilots wings on a mission and had gone to britain to fly spitfire spirit he was shot down in france. he was one of the most heavily punished prisoners in world war ii, spending six months in solitary confinement. first stint came as a prank against german guards. the guards were trained to count the prisoners and several of the man started -- men started milling around. if you ever tried to count kindergartners, it is similar. [laughter] >> the guards did not find it funny and ash ended up in the cooler. and then he tried to escape. he was caught hiding in the shower room and was hoping he wouldn't -- they wouldn't notice he was gone. he got two weeks in the cooler for that. the camp became overcrowded. about sent to another cap 150 miles to the northeast in poland. the day he got ther

mcqueen! but could heading carry a cause of dementia?ause it hurts my head sometimes. i love heading the ball while training. if a cross is coming in and it's going over your head, you can't really do anything else other than heading the ball, which makes it more useful. in 2002, a coroner ruled that former west brom strikerjeff astle died from a brain condition partly caused by adding football. and a recent study in scotland showed former players are three and a half more times likely to die from dementia. while we don't know exactly the reasons for the study detail whether it is heading or head injury, we can certainly assume it is head impact, so this is a sensible pragmatic approach to try and reduce the overall burden. former leicester player steve walsh now runs a youth academy and he says that things had to change. i scored all my goals with headers and you just think back, all those days of doing that, what could it do. and we have a duty of care for the kids we look after. the authorities say there will be a phased introduction

you mentioned the cooler king and i'm glad you did because this is a character steve mcqueen was based. he was known as the cooler king because he was captured and escaped several times. he was a native texan who had volunteered for the royal canadian air force in june of 1940 and earn his pilots wings and gone to britain to file i spitfire's. he was shot down on a mission near calais and france. he was one of most heavily punished prisoners and will were two, spending six months in solitary confinement. his first stint came after a prank against the german guards. the guards were trying to count the prisoners, as they often did. several men including ash started milling around. if you have ever tried to count kindergartners you can imagine, it is similar. [laughter] the guards did not find it funny, -- ended up in the cooler. that was his first extreme to the cooler. then he tried to escape. -- that was his first experience. he was caught hiding in the shower room. he got two weeks in the cooler for that. the camp became overcrowded. he was at stall log lift three. -- stalag luffe 3.

and you mentioned the cooler king, because this was the character that steve mccain steve mcqueen wasased upon. he was known as the cooler king because he was captured and escaped several times. he was a native texan who had volunteered for the royal canadian air force and earned his pilots wings, and a commission and went to britain to fly spitfires. he was first shot down in france. he was one of the most heavily punished prisoners in world war ii, spending six months in solitary confinement. came after ant prank. the guards were trying to count the prisoners, and several of the men started milling around, so if you have ever tried to count kindergartners, it is very similar. the guards did not find it funny and he ended up in the cooler. that was his first experience. then he tried to escape and was caught hiding in the shower room and was hoping that they would not notice who was that he was gone. he got two weeks for that. the camp became overcrowded. he was sent to another camp 150 miles to the northeast in poland. about the day he got there, he tried to escape. on -- unloading