Ira talks with Producer Nancy Updike about when she first met Kirk Johnson in 2007. At the time
he was mulling a crazy plan that involved Iraqi refugees, the Coast Guard and a boat.
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Kim Jong-Il loved movies, but hated all the movies made in North Korea. So he kidnapped a famous South Korean director and his ex-wife—a South Korean film star—locked them up in a villa in North Korea, and forced them to make movies for him. Nancy Updike tells the story.