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Music Reviews
11:45 am
Mon April 30, 2012

A Sure-Footed Collection Of 'African Blues'

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Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 5:18 pm

I have to hand it to the Putumayo label. Since it started as a soundtrack-provider to a clothing store in the early '90s, the operation has placed racks of CDs with friendly-primitivist art by Nicola Heindl into Starbucks and Whole Foods everywhere. Putumayo is as responsible as anything for making music buyers ask "Where's the world music section?" in shops or online.

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Author Interviews
11:20 am
Mon April 30, 2012

Sissy Spacek's 'Extraordinary Ordinary Life'

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Sissy Spacek received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter.
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Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 11:45 am

When Sissy Spacek started her film career, she was told to lose her heavy Texas accent. But her famous drawl became one of her greatest assets when Terrence Malick cast her in his 1973 crime drama Badlands.

Spacek played Holly, a teenage girl from South Dakota who became an accomplice on a cross-country murder spree. The film, which also starred Martin Sheen, was narrated in Spacek's distinctive Southern voice.

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Fresh Air Weekend
4:48 am
Sat April 28, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Jack Black, Hugh Laurie

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Hugh Laurie has received two Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild awards for his portrayal of Dr. Gregory House.
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Originally published on Sat April 28, 2012 11:18 am

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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Author Interviews
7:42 am
Fri April 27, 2012

Tracing The Divides In The War 'To End All Wars'

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Adam Hochschild is the author of seven books, including King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. He teaches at the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 1:51 pm

This interview was originally broadcast on August 11, 2011. To End All Wars is now available in paperback.

The human cost of World War I was enormous. More than 9 million soldiers and an estimated 12 million civilians died in the four-year-long conflict, which also left 21 million military men wounded.

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Movie Reviews
4:03 pm
Thu April 26, 2012

A 'Five-Year Engagement' Leaves A Bitter Taste

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Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) celebrate their impending nuptials with their families before Violet drops a bomb: She's been accepted at a program at the University of Michigan, and wants to move there and postpone their wedding day.
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Tom, ever the devoted fiance, agrees to postpone the wedding day as life continues to throw obstacles in the couple's way.
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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 8:38 am

There are many dramas and comedies in which career trajectories take couples to different corners of the country, complicating or ending romantic relationships. There will be many more, at least until someone invents a teleportation machine. What's different about each work is how the problem gets interpreted.

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