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GENDER BENDER

Program 06-04-23-A

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Men are not really from Mars and women are not really from Venus. But there are definite differences between the two genders. Norah Vincent was curious about what a man's life was like. So she spent eighteen months undercover...as a man. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Norah Vincent tells us about her journey into manhood.

SEGMENT 1:

Norah Vincent spent eighteen months disguised as a man. She describes the experience in a book called "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again." Vincent tells Anne Strainchamps what it was like to hang out with the guys as one of them, and what happened when they found out who she really is. Also, James Finney Boylan had gender re-assignment surgery in his 40s and is now Jennifer Finney Boylan and the author of "She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders." Boylan tells Jim Fleming that her life is not about the surgery and that she couldn't have made this journey without her supportive family.

SEGMENT 2:

Mike Greenberg is co-host of ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike in the Morning" and author of "Why My Wife Thinks I'm An Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad." And he's a self-described metrosexual who cares a lot about his appearance and lifestyle. TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon, who's neither a sportscaster nor a metrosexual, but is Canadian, prepared this report.

SEGMENT 3:

Journalist Neil Strauss tells Steve Paulson about the two years he spent with a group of pick up artists - men who share techniques about how to charm women. His book is "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists."

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 06-04-23-A.

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Books:

• Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Man's Journey into Manhood and Back Again (Viking; ISBN: 0670034665)
  
• Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (with an Afterword by Richard Russo) (Broadway Books; ISBN: 0641705514)
  
• Mike Greenberg, Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad (Villard; ISBN: 1400064384)
  
• Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Regan Books; ISBN: 0060554738)

Websites:

• -- Norah Vincent
  http://www.norahvincent.net/index.html
  
• -- Jennifer Finney Boylan
  http://www.colby.edu/personal/j/jfboylan/
  
• -- Mike Greenberg's radio show, "Mike and Mike in the Morning"
  http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/show?showId=mikeandmike

Music:

• -- "Brain Liaters"/Drums & Tuba
  from the CD, "Mostly Ape" (Righteous Babe Records)
  http://www.drumsandtuba.com/
  
• -- "The Origin of Love"/Original Cast
  from the CD, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Cast
  Recording" (Atlantic)
  http://www.finelinefeatures.com/sites/hedwig/
  
• -- "Brannock Device"/Gideon Freudmann
  from the CD, "Ukrainian Pajama Party" (Gadfly Records)
  http://www.cellobop.com/
  http://www.gadflyrecords.com/
  
• -- "Hooray for Hollywood (Cha-Cha)"/Don Swan & His
  Orchestra
  from the CD, "Mambo Fever: Ultra Lounge 2"/Various
  Artists (Capitol)
  http://www.ultralounge.com/
  
• -- "Music to Watch Girls By"/The Bob Crewe Generation
  from the CD, "The Best of the Bob Crewe Generation:
  Music to Watch Girls By" (Varese Records)

Distribution dates:

week of 04/23/2006 - hour 1

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