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Monday-Thursday 6:00-7:00 PM
Terry Gross

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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  • Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:33pm
    Douglas, Damon Illuminate HBO's 'Candelabra'
    Steven Soderbergh's latest film is a showbiz story about Vegas icon Liberace and his secret lover — played, respectively, by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, both terrific in their roles. It premieres Sunday on HBO.
  • Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:33pm
    Julianne Moore, Relishing Complicated Characters
    In What Maisie Knew, Moore plays a troubled rock star who might initially seem like a rotten person, but Moore's performance humanizes the character, highlighting her human frailties — something Moore has done in many parts.
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:31pm
    Daft Punk: Accessing Electronic Music's Humanity
    Random Access Memories finds the French duo changing its music-making process in an effort to make its songs sound more human. To that end, Daft Punk enlists guest stars such as Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:30pm
    Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process
    After years trying to conceive, novelist Jennifer Gilmore and her husband decided to adopt. What they thought would be a relatively simple process was instead a long and painful one. In her latest novel, Gilmore channels these autobiographical experiences into fiction.
  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:35pm
    Soderbergh's Liberace, 'Behind The Candelabra'
    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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Movie Interviews
1:32 pm
Mon October 15, 2012

Tyler Perry Transforms: From Madea To Family Man

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Tyler Perry is currently starring in the new action thriller Alex Cross, which opens in theaters on Friday.
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 1:40 pm

Whenever Tyler Perry is in front of the camera, he's usually behind it as well. A screenwriter, director, producer and star, Perry grew up poor in New Orleans, but he has become a movie phenomenon — he was described in the New Yorker as the most financially successful black man the American film industry has ever known.

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Music Reviews
12:11 pm
Mon October 15, 2012

More Than This: The 'Complete' Roxy Music

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Roxy Music's eight studio albums are now collected in one box set, titled The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982.
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 1:40 pm

Roxy Music's eight studio albums have just been collected in one box set, titled The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982.

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Fresh Air Weekend
8:03 am
Sat October 13, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Tig Notaro, Louis C.K., Nate Silver

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Comedian Tig Notaro dealt with a cancer diagnosis the best way she knew how — with humor.
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 1:22 pm

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

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Movie Reviews
11:38 am
Fri October 12, 2012

'Argo': Too Good To Be True, Because It Isn't

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CIA agents Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) and Jack O'Donnell (Bryan Cranston) plan a risky mission to save six Americans trapped in Iran.
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Hollywood veterans John Chambers (John Goodman) and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) agree to help the CIA stage a fake movie production.
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Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 12:01 pm

Ben Affleck's Argo is two-two-TWO movies in one, and while neither is especially original, by merging them Affleck pulls off a coup. First, he gives you espionage with the You Are There zing of a documentary. Then he serves up broad showbiz satire. For his final feat, he blends the two into a pulse-pounding nail-biter of a climax. And this all really happened. Most of it. Except for that climax.

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Author Interviews
9:45 am
Fri October 12, 2012

The Man Who Tracks Viruses Before They Spread

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H1N1 virus virons appear in a tissue sample.

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Nathan Wolfe is founder and CEO of Metabiota Inc, and founder of the non profit company Global Viral.
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Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 11:53 am

This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 11, 2011. The Viral Storm will be published in paperback on Oct. 16.

The New Yorker once called virologist Nathan Wolfe "the world's most prominent virus hunter." Wolfe, the director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, spends his days tracking emerging infectious diseases before they turn into deadly pandemics.

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