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One day, an IRS auditor named Harold Crick wakes up to discover a voice in his head – a female voice narrating his life. That's the premise of the film, Stranger Than Fiction. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet the man who wrote the screenplay. Also, the story of Orson Welles and his career after Citizen Kane. What do you do for an encore after you've made what many critics describe as the greatest movie ever made?

SEGMENT 1:

Laura Poitras is a Peabody Award-winning documentary film-maker. Her latest effort's been short listed for the Academy Award. It's called "My Country, My Country." Poitras tells Jim Fleming she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election. And we hear clips fro her film. Also, British actor Simon Callow is writing Orson Welles' biography. Volume 2 is called "Hello Americans." Callow tells Steve Paulson about the making and editing of "Citizen Kane" and says Welles seems to have lost interest in his films once he shot them.

SEGMENT 2:

Zach Helm wrote the screenplay for "Stranger than Fiction," in which Will Ferrell hears the voice of Emma Thompson apparently narrating his life. Doug Gordon, who often hears voices in his head, prepared this report on Zach Helm and the art of screenwriting.

SEGMENT 3:

Jack Sullivan is the author of "Hitchcock's Music." He tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written. The piece is lavishly illustrated with clips from "Vertigo" and "The Birds" and their scores.

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 07-01-14-A.

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Books:

Simon Callow, Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans (Viking)
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Press)
Jack Sullivan, Hitchcock's Music (Yale)

Websites:

• -- Laura Poitras/“My Country, My Country”
  http://www.mycountrymycountry.com/
• -- Simon Callow
  http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/853077/
• -- The Orson Welles Web Resource
  http://www.wellesnet.com/
• -- “Stranger than Fiction”
  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/strangerthanfiction/
  http://www.newmarketpress.com/title.asp?id=820
• -- Jack Sullivan/ “Hitchcock’s Music”
  http://www.hitchcocksmusic.com/

  CLIPS:

• -- Laura Poitras’ documentary, “My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
  http://www.mycountrymycountry.com/
• -- “Citizen Kane” (Turner Classic Movies)
• -- “Stranger than Fiction” (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures)
  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/strangerthanfiction/

Music:

• --“Someone to Watch Over Me”/Raymond Scott and the Secret Seven from the CD, “The Unexpected” (Basta)
  http://www.bastamusic.com/CatalogueDetails.aspx?zn=1&IDCat=13
• -- Music used in Zach Helm mix:
  -- “Flours”/ Britt Daniel/Brian Reitzell from the CD, “Stranger than Fiction: Music from the Motion Picture” (Columbia/Sony)
  --“Barabajagal”/Donovan from the CD, “Donovan’s Greatest Hits” (Sony)
• -- “Auditor”/ Britt Daniel/Brian Reitzell from the CD, “Stranger than Fiction: Music from the Motion Picture” (Columbia/Sony)
• Music and sound used in Jack Sullivan/“Hitchcock’s Music” mix:
  -- “Prelude” and “Rooftop”/Music composed by Bernarrd Herrmann from the CD, “Vertigo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Varese Sarabande)
  http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=VSD%2D5759
  -- “Prelude” and “Murder” from “Psycho”/Music composed by BernardHerrmann from the CD, “Psycho: The Esssential Alfred Hitchcock”(Silva Screen Records)
  http://www.silvascreenrecords.com/
  Excerpts from “The Birds (Collector’s Edition”) DVD (Universal Studios)
  “Herrmann”/Arling & Cameron from the CD, “Music for Imaginary Films” (Emperor Norton Records)
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~drive/
  
  

Distribution dates: week of 02/10/2008 - hour 2 week of 01/14/2007 - hour 1

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