Damian Lewis On The Conflicts And Complexities Of 'Homeland'
There weren't a whole lot of upset winners at last Sunday's Emmy Awards, but one of the few was Homeland star Damian Lewis, who beat out, among others, Mad Men's Jon Hamm and three-time winner Bryan...
View ArticleA Day Later, The Space Jump Guy Is Okay, But How About The Rest Of Us?
More than 7 million people were watching as Felix Baumgartner sat at the edge of his space capsule yesterday 24 miles off the ground and got ready to jump, in what was known as the "Red Bull Stratos"...
View ArticleA Judge Dismisses 'The Bachelor' Discrimination Lawsuit, But Not Its Concerns
Yesterday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Christopher Johnson and Nathaniel Claybrooks, two black men who had auditioned for The Bachelor, who claimed that the show discriminates...
View ArticleRob Delaney Talks About Gratitude, Perspective, Spaceships And A Career With...
Full disclosure: The first thing I said when I saw that Rob Delaney would be talking to NPR's Audie Cornish on today's All Things Considered was that I was curious to see whether he had ever said...
View ArticleRunning A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits
On Tuesday's Morning Edition, NPR's Neda Ulaby has a story about Chuck Lorre, the producer whose name is attached to three of the five highest-rated comedies on American television last season: The Big...
View ArticleTop Ten Things I Am Not Going To Do During This 'Les Miserables' Screening
It's just about that time when members of the press begin to attend screenings of Les Miserables. I hereby vow to engage in none of the following conduct.1. Throw crusts of bread at the screen and...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Helps His New 'Bud' Superman Get A Glimpse Of Home
On Monday's Morning Edition, Hayden Planetarium director and pop-culture go-to science guy Neil deGrasse Tyson tells NPR's David Greene the story of how he came to lend a hand to Superman.DC Comics,...
View ArticlePBS Remixes 'Reading Rainbow,' Delights Map And Book Nerds Everywhere
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View ArticleThe 'Calm Act' Will Quiet Down Commercials, So What Should Congress Do Next?
COME RIGHT DOWN RIGHT NOW BUY SOME FURNITURE EVERYTHING MUST GO WE ARE LIQUIDATING MERCHANDISE FOR THE THIRD TIME SINCE LAST FEBRUARY AND THIS TIME WE REALLY MEAN IT WE ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS ANY...
View Article2012 In Review: 50 Wonderful Things From The Year In Pop Culture
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View ArticleIn NFL Football, As In Hollywood, Does Anybody Know Anything?
Baseball: The San Francisco Giants, in winning the 2012 World Series, participated in 16 playoff games — and they'd have had more, had they not swept Detroit 4-0 in the World Series itself.Football:...
View ArticleOscar Nominees Announced: 'Lincoln' Leads With 12
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And this morning here in Los Angeles the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced. The movie with the most nominations: Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," with...
View ArticleLance Armstrong And The Cheapening Of Indignation
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View ArticleChoosing Sides: How To Pick Between The Ravens And The 49ers
Headlines were circulating last week about how, as Slate put it, "almost everybody" is rooting for the San Francisco 49ers over the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday's Super Bowl.
View ArticleThat Was A Great Blackout Last Night
Great blackout last night, right?It's been clear for some time that substantially more people watch the Super Bowl than have the slightest interest in watching the actual football game. That's why...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go, Do Not Get Severance: Interview With An Iron
Wednesday, Hasbro announced that it was welcoming a new member of the Monopoly-token family. And because it asked the Internet, it wound up with a cat. (For whatever reason, the Internet was not...
View ArticleTen Clues That The Zombie Outbreak Being Announced On Your Television Is Not...
As reported on Tuesday's Morning Edition, KRTV in Great Falls, Mont., was apparently the victim of hackers who broke in and broadcast a warning of attacking zombies. The station now says that it was a...
View ArticleRubio's Water Bottle And The Authenticity Craving
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View ArticleThe Oscars Broadcast, Zooming Way Past Cheeky To Land Squarely On Crass
If you like Argo (which won Best Picture), the movie Chicago (which made a couple of appearances) and jokes about women (which just kept coming), you probably had a substantially better night than the...
View ArticleHere We Go Again: Leno, Fallon, And Why The Late-Night Wars Are So Boring
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