MN90: Winona of Minnesota
Can Minnesota really claim Winona Ryder as one of its own? Britt Aamodt explores the actor’s North Star roots. [Read Transcript...]
Entertainment
MN90: Pixar’s Minneapolis Debut
Before Pixar was one of the top animation firms in the world, it was a subsidiary of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. Britt Aamodt tells us how, in 1984, the fledgling company made their animation short debut in Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Michael Koppelman and the 11-Billion-Year-Old Gamma Ray
Michael Koppelman has a foot in two worlds. He was engineer and producer for Prince. But he was also an amateur astronomer who, says Britt Aamodt, caught on film the death of a star that took place long before the earth was formed. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Man in Black – Jesse Ventura on X-Files
After he was a professional wrestler but before he was governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura made a cameo appearance on X-Files. Ventura may not have totally got his role in “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” but, says producer Britt Aamodt, X-Files fans still consider the episode one of their all-time favorites. [Read Transcript...]