A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.
Terry GrossThat era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.
Terry GrossGene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory."
Terry GrossI work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
Terry Gross