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NO ORDINARY SLICE OF 'AMERICAN LIFE' RADIO SHOW'S SHIFT TO TV IS PURE GENIUS.(Television)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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March 22, 2007
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Byline: MELANIE MCFARLANDP-I COLUMNIST
ON A RAINY night a few Wednesdays ago, "This American Life" fans packed the Paramount Theatre to hear Ira Glass and several regular contributors talk about what they learned from television - for an episode of a radio series.
Mull that over for a moment.
The lucky few hundred who scored tickets to the sold-out show could have stayed at home that night, warm on their couches, watching TV instead of listening to a couple of popular writers talk about it.
Glass would respect that. Contrary to one's stereotypical concept of public radio intellectuals, the gregarious host of "This American Life" is in no way a snob about ...
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