Veteran Phil Klay On A 2nd Trump Administration & The Military
11 Nov 2024
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Author Phil Klay says Trump has been willing to politicize the military to push his partisan agenda ...
Best Of: Al Pacino / Saoirse Ronan
Sat, 09 Nov
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Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino talks with Terry Gross about growing up in the South Bronx with a sing...
Jenny Slate Finds Strength In Sensitivity
08 Nov 2024
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Comic Jenny Slate spoke with Terry Gross earlier this year about finding comedy in her feelings, mot...
Freedman's Bank & Economic Disparities Today
07 Nov 2024
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In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created...
Saoirse Ronan Says Being A Child Actor Shaped Her — For The Better
Wed, 06 Nov
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Irish actor Saoirse Ronan returns to Fresh Air to talk with contributor Ann Marie Baldonado about he...
Remembering Quincy Jones
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:35:23 +0000
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We remember renowned composer, arranger and producer Quincy Jones and listen back to Terry Gross's 2...
Al Pacino Looks Back On A Legendary Career
Mon, 04 Nov
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Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino talks with Terry Gross about growing up in the South Bronx with a sing...
Best Of: Alex Van Halen / Painter Titus Kaphar
Sat, 02 Nov
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Alex Van Halen has written a new memoir about forming the rock band Van Halen with his brother Eddie...
Remembering 'Tootsie' Actor Teri Garr
Fri, 01 Nov
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We remember actor Teri Garr, who died last week at age 79. She charmed audiences in her film roles a...
What About Foreign Interference In The 2024 Election?
31 Oct 2024
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New Yorker journalist David Kirkpatrick says a government command hub is tasked with tracking and pr...
The Organization Ready To Help Trump Override The Federal Gov't
30 Oct 2024
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New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger says the America First Policy Institute, which has nearly 300 ...
Alex Van Halen On Eddie, Fire & 'Feeling It'
29 Oct 2024
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Alex Van Halen has written a new memoir about forming the rock band Van Halen with his brother Eddie...
How The Culture Wars Split A Church
28 Oct 2024
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold says complaints about homophobia, white privilege a...
Best Of: Bridget Everett / Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's Son
26 Oct 2024
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The HBO series Somebody Somewhere is about a 40-something woman who returns home to Kansas to care f...
Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman
25 Oct 2024
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The witty, cynical and often tongue-in-cheek songwriter Randy Newman is the subject of a new biograp...
Painter Titus Kaphar On 'Exhibiting Forgiveness'
24 Oct 2024
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When painter, sculptor, and installation artist Titus Kaphar's life was upended by his estranged fat...
John le Carré's Son Revives His Late Dad's Beloved Spy
23 Oct 2024
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Writer Nick Harkaway grew up hearing his dad read drafts of his George Smiley novels. He picks up le...
What Do Billionaires Like Elon Musk Want From Trump?
22 Oct 2024
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New Yorker writer Susan Glasser says Musk has spent $75 million to support Trump. If elected, Trump ...
Bridget Everett On Not Fitting In, Then Finding Her People
21 Oct 2024
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Growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, Bridget Everett and her "blue sense of humor" never quite fit in. A...
Best Of: Pharrell Williams / Lisa Marie Presley's Memoir
19 Oct 2024
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Grammy-winning producer, singer, songwriter and rapper Pharrell Williams has a new animated biopic c...
Tom Petty / 'Reservation Dogs' Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo
18 Oct 2024
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We're revisiting our interview with Tom Petty, whose hits include "American Girl," "Breakdown," and ...
The Battle For Honest And Accountable Government
17 Oct 2024
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Former Inspector General Glenn Fine oversaw investigations of the mishandling of documents in the Ok...
An Unprecedented Moment For Abortion, IVF & Fetal Personhood
16 Oct 2024
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Legal scholar Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S....
Palestinian Poet Reflects On A Life Of Loss
15 Oct 2024
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Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winn...
Riley Keough Helps Mom Lisa Marie Presley Emerge From Elvis' Shadow
14 Oct 2024
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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. ...
Best Of: Jeremy Strong / Will & Harper's Roadtrip Across America
12 Oct 2024
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Jeremy Strong played Kendall Roy on HBO's Succession. He's now starring in The Apprentice, as Donal...
Remembering Gospel Singer Cissy Houston / MLB Legend Pete Rose
11 Oct 2024
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We remember singer Cissy Houston, who died Oct. 7 at the age of 91. She got her start in gospel and ...
Israeli Writer Etgar Keret Reflects On A Year Of War
10 Oct 2024
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Internationally-acclaimed writer Etgar Keret, who lives in Tel Aviv, reflects on the protests in Isr...
Jeremy Strong On Delusion, Dreams and Doing What It Takes [Extended Version]
09 Oct 2024
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Best-known for his role as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession, Jeremy Strong now stars as lawyer and po...
Pharrell Williams Sees Colors When He Hears Music
08 Oct 2024
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The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell's early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach ...
Will Ferrell & Harper Steele's Roadtrip Across America
07 Oct 2024
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Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New ...
Best Of: Ta-Nehisi Coates / John Leguizamo
05 Oct 2024
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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his trip to Senegal and reflects on his ancestors taken from that side ...
Remembering Maggie Smith and Kris Kristofferson
04 Oct 2024
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Beloved British actor of stage and screen Maggie Smith died last week at age 89. Though the Oscar-wi...
The Harris/Trump Economic Proposals, Explained
03 Oct 2024
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David Wessel, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, compares the candida...
John Leguizamo Gives The Untold Story Of Latinos In America
02 Oct 2024
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More often than not, U.S. history classes fail to include the contributions of Latino people. Leguiz...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Explores Oppression in 'The Message'
01 Oct 2024
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In his new book, Coates reflects on his time in Senegal, as well as trips he took to South Carolina ...
Ina Garten's Biggest Hosting Fail
30 Sep 2024
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The host of the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa tells Tonya Mosley about a disastrous party she thr...
Best Of: 'Joker' Director Todd Phillips / Actor Uzo Aduba
28 Sep 2024
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Todd Phillips, the director and co-writer of the new musical sequel to Joker, shares what it was lik...
Celebrating 25 Years Of 'The West Wing'
27 Sep 2024
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25 years ago, the TV series The West Wing premiered. It was a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional ...
Could 'Uncommitted' Voters Sway The Election?
26 Sep 2024
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New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz describes Michigan's uncommitted, thousands of pro-Palestinian, ant...
Above All, Uzo Aduba Is Her Mother's Daughter
25 Sep 2024
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Orange Is the New Black actor Uzo Aduba grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominant...
The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation
24 Sep 2024
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Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains w...
Why 'Joker' Director Todd Phillips Came Back For A Sequel
23 Sep 2024
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After his 2019 hit Joker, Todd Phillips knew he wanted to do more with the character. Joker: Folie à...
Best Of: Connie Chung / Demi Moore
21 Sep 2024
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Pioneering television journalist Connie Chung gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for ...
A Satire Of the Sunshine State
20 Sep 2024
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Florida's population has quintupled since writer Carl Hiaasen grew up near Fort Lauderdale in the '5...
Maggie Haberman On Trump's Turbulent 2024 Campaign
19 Sep 2024
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NYT senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has spent years covering former President Tr...
Connie Chung Regrets Being A Good Girl
18 Sep 2024
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TV news journalist Connie Chung has written a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the boys...
How Trump Created The Illusion Of Success
17 Sep 2024
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner spent years investigating the forme...
Demi Moore's New Beginning
16 Sep 2024
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In the horror movie The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aging actress who uses a black-market drug to...
Best Of: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover / Comic Taylor Tomlinson
14 Sep 2024
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Journalists Ryan Mac and Kate Conger talk about the chaos Elon Musk created inside Twitter, how Musk...
Remembering Actor James Earl Jones
13 Sep 2024
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James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mafusa in The Lion King, and once the...
Gearing Up For A Post-Election Legal Fight
12 Sep 2024
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Democrats and Republicans learned from the legal fight over the 2020 elections, New York Times repor...
How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
11 Sep 2024
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After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75% ...
The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs
10 Sep 2024
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Investigative journalist Jessica Pishko says that a growing group of "constitutional sheriffs" have ...
Taylor Tomlinson Is Ready To Joke About Her Bipolar II. Mostly.
09 Sep 2024
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The After Midnight host was initially unsure about sharing her bipolar II diagnosis on-stage. But, s...
Best Of: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson / Novelist Danzy Senna
07 Sep 2024
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimpse into h...
Inside The Making Of 'The Sopranos'
06 Sep 2024
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25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. There's a ...
The Anti-Fascist Vigilantes Infiltrating White Nationalist Groups
05 Sep 2024
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New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what t...
SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets Personal
04 Sep 2024
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time a...
Danzy Senna Writes Herself (And Other Mixed-Race People) Into Existence
03 Sep 2024
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Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an...
Film Icons: Spike Lee / Samuel L. Jackson
02 Sep 2024
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To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke ...
Film Icons: Steven Spielberg / Carrie Fisher
31 Aug 2024
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In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how...
Film Icons: Clint Eastwood / Eli Wallach & More
30 Aug 2024
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The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous s...
Film Icons: Dennis Hopper / Isabella Rossellini
29 Aug 2024
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We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hop...
Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier
28 Aug 2024
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Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor w...
Film Icons: Molly Ringwald / Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins
27 Aug 2024
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We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series with two performers who gained fame as kids: Br...
Film Icons: Michael Caine / Robert Duvall
26 Aug 2024
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From now through Labor Day we're featuring interviews from our archive with great actors and directo...
Film Icons: Elia Kazan / Eva Marie Saint
24 Aug 2024
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We begin our series celebrating classic movies with Terry Gross' 1988 interview with On the Waterfro...
Remembering 'King Of Daytime TV' Phil Donahue
23 Aug 2024
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We remember Phil Donahue, the daytime talk show host who pioneered thoughtful discussions on controv...
Reflecting On 2 Critical Conflict Zones: Ukraine And Gaza
22 Aug 2024
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Georgetown professor and foreign policy analyst Daniel Byman discusses Ukraine's daring offensive in...
How Donald Trump Changed Federal Law Enforcement
21 Aug 2024
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Rohde argues that since 2016, Trump has...
How Stadiums Became The American Public Square
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:33:35 +0000
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As 50,000 people attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we look at the history of pol...
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor On The Complexity & Heartbreak Of Female Friendships
Mon, 19 Aug
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In The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Ellis-Taylor plays the outspoken ringleader among three w...
Best Of: Black Doctors Consortium Founder / The Life Of A Brain Surgeon
Sat, 17 Aug
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Pediatric surgeon and founder of the Black Doctors Consortium Dr. Ala Standford talks with Terry Gro...
Police Procedural 'Homicide' (Finally) Comes To Streaming
Fri, 16 Aug
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Homicide: Life on the Streets, the critically acclaimed police procedural set in Baltimore, is comin...
On The Road With Harris/Walz
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:50:31 +0000
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As democrats prepare for their national convention in Chicago next week, we take stock of a presiden...
How American Lobbyists Threaten Democracy
Wed, 14 Aug
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Casey Michel shines a light on Americans lobbying for foreign governments in Washington, in many cas...
Safiya Sinclair On Cutting Herself Free From Rastafari Roots
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:26:32 +0000
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Poet and writer Safiya Sinclair grew up in a devout Rastafari family in Jamaica where women were sub...
An Informant Exposes The Inner Workings Of The Ku Klux Klan
Mon, 12 Aug
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Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped f...
Best Of: How 1982 Sci-Fi Changed The Game / Singer Brittany Howard
Sat, 10 Aug
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In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other. Chris Nashawaty...
Revisiting The Final Months Of WWII
Sat, 10 Aug
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We commemorate the 79th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by revisiting a h...
'Sing Sing' Offers a Glimpse of Life Behind Bars
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:31:19 +0000
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Filmmaker Greg Kwedar and formerly incarcerated actor Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin discuss their new...
Black Doctors Consortium Founder Serves Vulnerable Communities
Wed, 07 Aug
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When the pandemic hit, Dr. Ala Stanford set up shop in parking lots, churches and mosques where she ...
Migrants Risk It All On The Treacherous Darién Gap
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:16:07 +0000
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Each year, nearly half a million migrants cross the perilous stretch of jungle between South and Cen...
A Brain Surgeon Opens Up About Life In The O.R.
Mon, 05 Aug
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Dr. Theodore Schwartz has been treating neurological illnesses for nearly 30 years. He says being a ...
Best Of: Comic Nikki Glaser / 'Hacks' Co-Creator Paul W. Downs
Sat, 03 Aug
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Comic Nikki Glaser talks with Terry Gross about finding the line between offensive and funny, hurt f...
Remembering Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon
Fri, 02 Aug
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We go into the Fresh Air archive to remember two remarkable women: Bernice Johnson Reagon was one of...
Brittany Howard On Prince, Break-Up Songs, And Her Haunted House
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:43:08 +0000
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Grammy-winning singer, guitarist and producer Brittany Howard fronted the band Alabama Shakes before...
The 8 Sci-Fi Movies Of 1982 That Changed Everything
Wed, 31 Jul
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In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other: E.T., Tron, Sta...
How 'Hacks' Comes Together — Over Email
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:17:41 +0000
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Paul W. Downs co-created the HBO Max show with his wife, Lucia Aniello and their friend and collabor...
Comic Nikki Glaser Doesn't Know Why Anyone Would Want To Be Roasted
Mon, 29 Jul
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The comic made headlines after the roast of Tom Brady. She spoke with Terry Gross about finding the ...
Best Of: 'Wicked' Director Jon M. Chu / Stunt Performer-Turned-Filmmaker David Leitch
Sat, 27 Jul
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Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights is now directing the film adaptatio...
Remembering Comic Bob Newhart
Fri, 26 Jul
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We remember comic and actor Bob Newhart, who died last week at the age of 94. In his stand-up comedy...
Will Hezbollah And Israel Go To War?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:58:56 +0000
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Hezbollah, the militant group based in Lebanon, shares Hamas' goal of destroying the state of Israel...
'Wicked' Director Jon M. Chu On The Hard Work Of Creativity
Wed, 24 Jul
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Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the k...
The Dictator Playbook
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:04:03 +0000
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Autocracy, Inc. author Anne Applebaum says today's dictators — including Putin and Xi — are work...
A Former Stunt Performer Shares Tricks Of The Trade
Mon, 22 Jul
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Filmmaker and stunt coordinator David Leitch says it's easier to do stunts himself than direct his s...
Best Of: A Life Of Self-Contempt / Character Actor Julianne Nicholson
Sat, 20 Jul
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Humorist/writer Shalom Auslander's new memoir is a satirical look at all the ways a sense of "feh," ...
Remembering Shelley Duvall / Sex Guru Dr. Ruth
Fri, 19 Jul
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We remember actress Shelley Duvall, who died at the age of 75. Best-known for her role in The Shinin...
Waking Up And Feeling 'Yuck'
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:03:58 +0000
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Humorist Shalom Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household with...