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4:04 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Sandwich Monday: The Crunchwrap Supreme

The Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme is, in the words of Taco Bell, engineered "for maximum portability." In truth, their short-lived "Back Pocket Chalupa" was more portable, but also more tragic.

MacKenzie: It looks like a frisbee. Maybe that's what the portability is about.

Robert: They need to make one in boomerang form, for people who don't want to share.

Ian: It has a tostada inside, for structural integrity.

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Monkey See
12:38 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Press Tour 2012: The View So Far, Part II

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Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere speak onstage at the "Nashville" panel.

We're in the final stretch — kind of — at the Television Critics Association press tour. We've now heard from all the major broadcast networks, and we've got a day of set visits and three days of cable to close things out after today's CW and Showtime presentations.

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Movie Interviews
12:31 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Getting Old Is Hard, Even (And Especially) For Models

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In About Face, former supermodels (including Carmen Dell'Orefice shown above) talk about what it's like to grow old in an industry that is obsessed with youth.

Originally published on Mon July 30, 2012 4:02 pm

You'll probably recognize many of the women featured in the new HBO documentary About Face: The Supermodels Then and Now. They are some of the most famous and photographed models from the 1950s through the 1980s. Carol Alt and Beverly Johnson are two of the supermodels featured in the film. They are joined by director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders to talk with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about growing up — and growing older — in an industry obsessed with youth.

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Remembrances
12:31 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Actress Lupe Ontiveros

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Actress Lupe Ontiveros was known for her roles in the film Selena and the television series Desperate Housewives.

Actress Lupe Ontiveros died Thursday of cancer at the age of 69. She was most famous for her role in the 1997 film Selena, but Ontiveros also acted with Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, played a strict mother in the independent film Real Women Have Curves and had a recurring role in the television series Desperate Housewives.

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You Must Read This
6:03 am
Mon July 30, 2012

An Existential Guide For When You're Really 'Lost'

Originally published on Mon December 3, 2012 12:16 pm

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist at University of Rochester and host of the 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog on NPR.org.

I don't read self-help books. On any given day my self seems to need so much help that 200 pages of cheerful advice and end-of-chapter exercises miss the core of my dilemma. The real question keeping me up at night is this: What the hell is a self anyway? How did I get one and why is it so damn desperate for help?

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