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Program 05-10-02-B

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Imagine that you grow up with dreams of fame and fortune. You're going to become a world-famous rock star. The only problem is your childhood friend becomes the world's biggest rock star instead. In this hour of the Peabody Award-winning program, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Neil McCormick shares his story of being upstaged by U2's lead singer, Bono!

SEGMENT 1:

Neil McCormick believed he was going to be the world's biggest rock star, but that's what happened to his childhood friend, Bono. McCormick is the author of "Killing Bono: A True Story." Her tells Steve Paulson what it's been like to live as Bono's doppelganger all these years. And we hear some of McCormick's music. Also, Hillel Schwartz is the auth of "The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles." He talks with Jim Fleming about the literary history of the doppelganger and admits to having his own doppelganger.

SEGMENT 2:

Alice Dreger is on the faculty of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She's the author of "One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal." Dreger tells Jim Fleming that conjoined twins usually see themselves as individuals, but view being joined as a positive thing. In fact, separated twins have many more health complications.

SEGMENT 3:

Carolyn Spiro and Pamela Spiro Wagner are twin sisters and co-authors of "Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia." The sisters tell Anne Strainchamps that they felt almost psychically connected until they were in sixth grade and Pamela began hearing voices. Carolyn went on to become a psychiatrist but her voice never had as much authority as Pamela's hallucinations.

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Books:

• Neil McCormick, Killing Bono: A True Story (Pocket Books/VH1)
  
• Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D., Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia (St. Martin's Press)
• Hillel Schwartz, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses,
  Unreasonable Facsimiles (Zone Books)
• Alice Domurat Dreger, One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal (Harvard University Press)

Links:

• -- Neil McCormick
  http://www.theghostwhowalks.com/
  
• -- Alice Dreger
  http://www.alicedreger.com/
  
• -- The Poetry of Pamela Spiro Wagner
  http://www.schizophrenia.com/stories/psw.poetry.htm

Music:

• -- "Harm's Way"/The Ghost Who Walks (alias Neil McCormick)
  from the CD, "Songs Inspired By The Passion of the Christ"
  (Universal South/UMG Soundtracks)
  http://www.universal-south.com/
• -- "My Evil Twin"/They Might Be Giants
  from the CD, "Apollo 18" (Elektra)
  http://www.tmbg.com/froMain.html
• -- "The Beast"/Milt Buckner
  from the CD, "David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (Soundtrack)"
  (Milan)
  http://www.milanrecords.com/
• -- "Main Theme"/John Ottman
  from the CD, "The Usual Suspects Original Motion Picture
  Soundtrack" (Milan)
  http://www.milanrecords.com/
• -- "Liquid Spear Waltz"/Michael Andrews
  from the CD, "Donnie Darko: Music from the Original Motion
  Picture Score" (Enjoy Records)
  http://www.everloving.com/

Distribution dates:

week of 01/14/2007 - hour 2 week of 10/02/2005 - hour 2

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