Scott Simon: From civil wars in
Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police
stations, and America's backyards, National Public Radio®'s
Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a
well-traveled perspective to his role as host of Weekend Edition Saturday.
Music Picks for the Millennium:
Hank Williams, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry;
Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado;
George Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue;
Duke Ellington, Sophisticated Lady;
Aaron Copeland, Appalachian Spring;
Erik Satie, Trois Gymnopedies
Movie Picks:
Citizen Kane (surprise, surprise);
Louis Malle's Phantom India and The Fire Within;
Fellini's Armacord;
Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List;
Satyajit Ray's The Firm.
Book Picks:
Ulysses, by James Joyce (but I prefer The Dubliners);
The Comedians, by Graham Greene;
The Diary Of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
Gandhi leading the Salt March;
Kristalnacht in Germany;
Einstein's Theory of Relativity;
Nichols and May form Chicago's Second City theater.
What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
The invention of print.
Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
Right here, on the job. I will be. We are the first show up of the next Century. It's an honor. If I can't be with Isabella Rossellini, I'd just as soon be on the job.
Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
More guacamole.
Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
Stale tortillas.
Scott Simon: From civil wars in
Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police
stations, and America's backyards, National Public Radio®'s
Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a
well-traveled perspective to his role as host of