Collectors, Soundmarks, Cheech Marin

Studio 360 | Oct 9, 2011

Kurt Andersen and actor Cheech Marin discuss our compulsion to collect. Marin, probably best known as half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, talks about his own collection of Chicano art, which is now on exhibit at the Smithsonian. Actress Sylvia Miles gathers every piece of ephemera from her personal and professional life, and a book dealer obsesses over Nigerian paperbacks.

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