Then everyone out. Yeah. Louise Bourgeois did a sculpture called "Knife Woman." And I thought I wanted to call it "Knife Women." Yeah, that's really cool.
So our opera roots are deep and we met at Yale. Louise and I were in a drama school class called Opera Practicum, where we worked with singers in the Yale opera program for about eight weeks.And it was this really delicious workshop setting, where we got to tackle classic scenes in fresh and sort of edgy ways.
She's going to have a lot less money to spend. Louise , come the end of the year-- the other thing that's going to happen because of the finagling that we had about a year ago over raising the debtceiling, they said, oh, well, let it go.
So let's say teachers what needs do they have? Mary Louise is our office manager sitting here.
So IVF, when it started in the 1980s, was a revolutionary technology. When Louise Brown, the first so-called test-tube baby, was born, there were people at that time who said, this is an abomination. It's a crime against nature.
be another Deadpool after that. Mary Louise Parker's one that I think is really talented, and super, super smart and cool.
Roth sweepers unit back in those days Roth sweepers unit back in those days they really did they really did run by Louise Casey Baron run by Louise Casey Baron run by Luis Casey. Yeah. Um at that time run by Luis Casey. Yeah. Um at that time and they really did reduce uh rough and they really did reduce uh rough sweeping quite significantly. And when sweeping quite significantly. And when
all that public quite yet. And then with Louise Little, it was going to some scholars who were experts in Malcolm X, and they also had boxes of letters to share with me, and data and files that, again, had never been published.
It's too loud. So go ahead. So what did Louise say? Well, she could tell that I was a Leo.
And what Okello is great at is to help people put their feelings and put their hurts in a direction which is positive. And to take Mary-Louise 's metaphor about wounds, you can stare at it, you can pick at it, or you can say, I'm moving on. Thank you, it's there.
My church is planning to go in January, so I'm planning to go along. And Mary-Louise can attest to this that-- Beautiful. Even the dirt is beautiful.
about Martin Luther King when he was having the community practice civil disobedience. And as Mary-Louise said, it's not the dark continent.
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. because they thought that Louise , who was very unpopular, was in the carriage, and so she leaned out the window and shouted I'm the Protestant whore, because Louise would've
was shared with my mother's two brothers and a sister, and Aunt Louise , who was his third wife that we were no longer calling grandmother. She was Aunt Louise . And we would wait there for my father who would join us in a couple of months when things were settled in New Orleans.
And it is this movie that we were originally inspired by "Three Amigos," and "Raising Arizona," and "True Romance." "Thelma and Louise ." "Thelma and Louise ," movies that had this heart that takes us through it, and putting our characters-- Keegan and my characters-- in the fish out of water scenario, this world of high stakes crime.
Please welcome Acrobatic Conundrum. No balloon by Louise and only Can you now do some ink like moving this like this?
I'm Sheila and this is Doug, just in case you need to keep us straight, OK? So as Louise mentioned, 15 years ago we published "Difficult Conversations." What were you guys doing 15 years ago?
We are-- I'm Louise .
Imagine here's our car. And Thelma and Louise are in this car. And as I say, it is speeding along.
She doesn't have to pay as much tax, which means she's got much more money in her pocket than she had before. Here's Louise . Louise is as a government servant. In fact, she works in the Defense Department.
So the idea of Mary Louise Burke being a 16-year-old girl was the seed of it.
And that's like the only difference. Then when we think about Louise Little, who is Malcolm X's mother, she was this radical activist. Like if you're somebody who loves like these badass activist stories, you have to know Louise .
Yeah. I think it's so true. And when you talk about Louise , I remember very vividly this portion in the book where you're describing how she tried to really educate her sons in every facet, whether that was their schooling, but also at home, and keeping a dictionary in the kitchen and having them read and look up words
Like this conversation on nationalism and Louise , you touched on it where, like in the Dominican Republic, heavily nationalist, there's nothing better than the
And as I go there, I want to play a song on my harp. And as you can see Mary-Louise 's picture there, she is a representation of mother, motherhood. She is such a passionate mother, just like my mother.
Or I'm in Lake Louise .
Thank you both John and Louise for making this happen.
Good. OK, here's another one. Who's seen the movie Thelma and Louise ? OK. Who hasn't seen the movie Thelme and Louise ?
So that's the cliff. Let's talk about Thelma and Louise . I'm going to turn the page here if I can.
"Every little place seems to whisper Louise ."
name with an R uh Louise or Florence is here that we see is disproportionately
likely to move to Florida and Louise is disproportionately likely to move to Louisiana because they like they like
1978, Louise Brown is born.
And I worked with an actress named Mary Louise Burke, who is an older actress, who had been in many of my plays.
I was reading everything that the sons had written or written about the sons and took any piece of information that I could pull about their moms. Thank god for technology where I can Control-F on Louise and Control-F mom. I did not have to read these dozens and dozens of works that have been written about the men.
Thank you very much, Louise .
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. but he also had a posher mistress called Louise de Keroualle about the same time, and she is now thought probably to have been a French spy.
Louisa Jacob and I actually sang as kids in opera productions. I was in DC, Louise in Berlin, Jacob in New York. Jacob was the star of New York City Opera as a boy soprano.
Anyway. Geez Louise . And so we just hit it off when we were taping the podcast.
This is one of the translators involved called Louise Askew.
I have a whole bunch of questions for Louise .
I think maybe one last question and then we should let Louise get a drink of water or something like that.
Thanks. So Louise , thank you so, so much for coming.
The economy is really, really dependent on consumer spending. And if you've got consumers like Thelma and Louise who've got a lot less money coming into their pockets, it means that-- well, essentially, if you think of the car as the economy, it means that they're not going to be able to pay to fix the brakes or get the oil changed.
And indeed, her name was Louise Joy Brown.
Yeah. You have a way with words. I wanted to point out, Mary-Louise is a poet and artist with words, as you just heard. I would say that what we're challenged to do is to channel and connect who we are, and the things that happened to us can turn us to do one thing
movies would-- it was like, "Thelma and Louise ," "Dead Man Walking," "Rocky Horror Picture Show." So it's like hard to refocus, because she's such a goddess.
But what you find-- I give this story of one student named Louise .
Good afternoon. I'm here today with Louise Mirrer, who is the President of the New York Historical Society.
I thought I would start with just a few words to introduce Louise and tell you all about her if you don't already know.