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Soderbergh’s Liberace, ‘Behind The Candelabra’
May 21, 2013 | NPR · In his new HBO film, the acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between the flamboyant entertainer and Scott Thorson, who was 40 years Liberace’s junior and still a teenager when they met. Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon plays Thorson.
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The Movie Katie Aselton Has ‘Seen A Million Times’
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Actor-director Katie Aselton could watch Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break a million times. “It totally scoops you up and takes you for a ride,” she says.
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One Couple, Nearly 20 Years, All ‘Before Midnight’
May 19, 2013 | NPR · We’ve already met Jesse and Celine, twice. In the 1995 film Before Sunset, they had a romantic encounter in Vienna. Nine years later, they found each other in Paris. In this third film, their relationship has progressed another nine years. The romance hasn’t left, says director Richard Linklater, it’s simply changed.
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Quinto Turns Inward To Find Spock’s Soul
May 17, 2013 | NPR · Playing the famous half-Vulcan requires a little meditative depth and a lot of brow-shaving. Heroes villain Zachary Quinto plays Spock in the reboot of the Star Trek franchise, with the blessing of original Spock Leonard Nimoy. Quinto tells NPR about befriending Nimoy, shaping eyebrows and more.
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Roadside Attractions
A Polley Family Secret, Deftly Pieced Together
May 15, 2013 | NPR · In a striking documentary, Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own family. The director and actor, known for films such as Away from Her and The Sweet Hereafter, was teased growing up about not looking like her actor father. At 27, she discovered that it wasn’t a joke.
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IFC Films
Gerwig, Baumbach Poke At Post-College Pangs
May 14, 2013 | NPR · In Frances Ha, a 27-year-old (Greta Gerwig) navigates New York City — and the transition from prolonged adolescence to proper adulthood. Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script; they join Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross to talk about the project.
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Tokuma Enterprises
The Movie Mark McKinney Has ‘Seen A Million Times’
May 12, 2013 | NPR · Writer-comedian Mark McKinney could watch Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film My Neighbor Totoro a million times. “It still makes me laugh, it still makes me smile,” he says.
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Lionsgate
Tina Gordon Chism On Directing Her Star-Studded ‘Peeples’
May 9, 2013 | NPR · The writer of Drumline and ATL makes her directorial debut with the new comedy Peeples. It has the backing of hit filmmaker Tyler Perry and features some major stars. Chism talks to host Michel Martin about her career and new film.
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108 Media
An Epic Of India Gets A Canvas Its Own Size
May 9, 2013 | NPR · Midnight’s Children, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, is a sweeping big-screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s great novel of modern Indian history. NPR’s Bilal Qureshi talks to the two storytellers about their collaboration on the project.
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Sony Pictures Classics
‘Love’ Stories: Pierce Brosnan, Then And Now
May 7, 2013 | NPR · The actor’s new film, Love Is All You Need, has him playing a widowed businessman on vacation on the Amalfi Coast. He tells NPR’s Audie Cornish it was a role he could identify with.
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Harvard School of Public Health
Scientific Tooth Fairies Investigate Neanderthal Breast-Feeding
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years. Some baby orangutans nurse until they are 7 years old. Researchers found a way to test ancient teeth for clues about when humans cut nursing short.
 

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Judge: Unredeemed Borders Gift Cards Are Worthless
May 22, 2013 | NPR · A Manhattan judge upholds a lower court ruling that $210 million worth of unredeemed gift cards from the defunct book chain are no longer valid.
 

AP
Lois Lerner’s Brief And Awful Day On Capitol Hill
May 22, 2013 | NPR · The IRS bureaucrat showed up long enough at a House hearing into the scandal engulfing her agency to declare her innocence and her constitutional right to say no more.
 

Arts & Life

Courtesy Ai Weiwei
China’s Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium: Heavy Metal
May 22, 2013 | NPR · In 2011, police detained Ai Weiwei for 81 days. Now, he’s released a song that’s turned the experience into a heavy metal protest song, along with a dystopian nightmare video. The lyrics are explicit and angry. Ai says his music is for the many political prisoners who remain jailed.
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American Zoetrope/Nala Films
Cannes Diary: Delusions Of ‘Gatsby’ (And Dreams Of Notoriety)
May 22, 2013 | NPR · All is Gatsbyish excess on the Croisette, where the Cannes Film Festival’s early tone might well have been set by Baz Luhrmann’s lavish film — and by Sofia Coppola’s accomplished The Bling Ring.
 

Styling The NBA
May 22, 2013 | NPR · Basketball star Carmelo Anthony is known off the court for his signature fashion flare. Host Michel Martin speaks with his stylist, Khalilah Williams-Webb, about what goes into dressing Anthony and other high-profile clients.
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Music

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Kobo Town: A Haunted ‘Jukebox’ Filled With Caribbean Sounds
May 22, 2013 | NPR · The Toronto-based band plays a hybrid of old-school calypso, ska and other West Indian styles. But the new album Jumbie in the Jukebox doesn’t so much revive classic genres as reinvent them for a new time.
 

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Henri Dutilleux, Leading French Composer, Dies At 97
May 22, 2013 | NPR · The composer, who never fit into any particular school of composition, will be remembered for a relatively small quantity of perfectly realized, richly textured works created for some of the 20th century’s leading virtuosos.
 

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China’s Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium: Heavy Metal
May 22, 2013 | NPR · In 2011, police detained Ai Weiwei for 81 days. Now, he’s released a song that’s turned the experience into a heavy metal protest song, along with a dystopian nightmare video. The lyrics are explicit and angry. Ai says his music is for the many political prisoners who remain jailed.
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