Movies On The Radio: Who Is Your Favorite Character?

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Laura Lee

Published August 21, 2014 at 4:15 PM EDT

Movie Critics Talk About Favorite Movie Characters

Film experts talk about desirable characters in the movies.

When you were a child, did you imagine being Superman?

Or do you stare at the big screen now and imagine your life as someone else?

Host Frank Stasio talks with film experts Laura Boyes, film curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University film professor about what movie figures top listeners' lists of desirable characters.

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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