Terry Gross
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23,291 appearances
398 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
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Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's not good for a biographer like you.
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So you had to find yeah, you had to find like alternate means.
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You had the uh
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FBI files are you look at after suing.
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You had like some notes from other people's work.
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Jeremy Strong, who played Roy Cohn in the movie The Apprentice, uh which was about the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn, he turned over his research uh to you.
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But you also found that Michael Stipe from R.E.M.
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had an archive of Roy Cohn stuff that he bought at auction
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What was in that that was of um use for you and your biography?
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So w one of the photos and I can't remember if whether this was in Michael Stipes collection or you found it someplace else, but Robert Maplethorpe
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who started off doing like celebrity photos and then ended up doing a lot of very controversial photos of um gay men often like engaged in a sexual act.
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And this was this huge controversy because he had some funding from the NEA, the National Endowment for the Arts.
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And that was part of the whole controversy about federal funding for the arts and what should be allowed to be
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be funded.
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But any anyhow, so the Maplethorpe photo of um of Roy Cohn, Roy Cohn was looking just kind of like angry and threatening in it, right?
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So because the Maplethorpe photo showed an angry mean expression.
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on a close up of Roy Cohn's face.
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It reminded me of a photo that Trump seems to really like of himself, where he has a scowl on his face.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because Racone was such a hypocrite when it came to homosexuality, 'cause he was closeted.
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