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They can usually accommodate special song requests.ĭapper Dudes are experienced session musicians and entertainers. Your guests will feel immediately at home with their repertoire. They play familiar American Songbook classics of the 20s through to the 60s in a a warm ‘old-school’ style. This popular, charismatic pair make a fresh swinging sound that will entertain guests as background music for a champagne reception, more soberly for a marriage ceremony or more upbeat for a party. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Dapper Dudes is an exciting jazz duo featuring pianist Michael and double bass player Tom. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information.

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There you go.ĭEGGANS: Judging by the expansive storytelling in 'Black Bird,' Lehane won't have to worry about coming up with strong ideas in his TV work for some time to come.

All our good ideas come between, like, 10 and 1. LEHANE: David said, nobody ever had a good idea after 3. Mercedes,' 'Ally McBeal' creator David E. I can drive them to school, and then I can go, and I can work.ĭEGGANS: Ask him about the notorious stories of TV writers working around the clock in Hollywood, and Lehane responds with a quote from his old boss on 'Mr. And it doesn't make me the greatest person to be around. LEHANE: When I write a novel, I have to go into a tunnel. In decades of novel writing, he says, the process has never gotten easier. Mercedes' says a novel to be published next year, called 'Small Mercies,' will likely be his last for a while.

And if he played somebody dangerous, you felt a sweetness.ĭEGGANS: Lehane, who's written for TV shows like 'The Wire' and 'Mr. If Ray played somebody sweet, you still felt menace.

LEHANE: The thing I love about Ray is - which is there was a sort of core duality at the center of him. LIOTTA: (As Big Jim Keene) I still wanted it for you. LIOTTA: (As Big Jim Keene) A wife, kids and a steady paycheck.ĮGERTON: (As Jimmy Keene) I couldn't have helped you if I lived that life. RAY LIOTTA: (As Big Jim Keene) I never wanted this for you. While visiting him in prison, Keene's dad expresses regret over how his bad choices pulled his son into a criminal life. In 'Black Bird,' Liotta plays Keene's dad as a retired, corrupt, broken down cop.

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The series also featured one of the last performances by Ray Liotta, who died in his sleep on May 26. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) So what good are you to me? You show me you can find common ground with this man, or you are wasting my time.ĭEGGANS: To get Hall talking about his crimes, Keene realizes he has to learn to see women as objects the way Hall does, and he has to examine his own feelings about women. TARON EGERTON: (As Jimmy Keene) How do I know? UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) What do you think Larry Hall doesn't like about women?

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In one scene, an FBI handler quizzes Keene on how he'll approach accused serial killer Larry Hall in prison. If I can make this show about sort of weaponization of the male gaze, then I'll do it.ĭEGGANS: 'Black Bird' is stacked with an impressive cast that includes Greg Kinnear as murder investigator Brian Miller and Taron Egerton, who won a Golden Globe playing Elton John in the biopic 'Rocketman,' as Jimmy Keene. LEHANE: I started to realize, oh, my God, this is a really interesting story about where all men fall on the misogyny line. What if a central theme of the show was how destructive men's views of women could be? I don't like things with all dudes.ĭEGGANS: Then Lehane got an idea. And then I was like, prison? I like prison. I'd just done three Stephen King projects.

But at first, Lehane told NPR TV critic Eric Deggans he hesitated to work on what became 'Black Bird.'ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: Based on an autobiographical novel about real-life events, the series tells the story of charismatic criminal Jimmy Keene, who's told he can get a 10-year sentence erased if he gets another inmate to admit committing a string of murders of young women.ĭENNIS LEHANE: I was just adamant. Lehane says he may leave literature behind to work in TV for good. Writer Dennis Lehane, whose novels include 'Mystic River' and 'Gone, Baby, Gone' has a new limited series coming today to Apple TV+.