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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.

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Television
8:13 am
Mon May 7, 2012

Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'

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Girls has been compared to Sex and the City. The characters, played by (from left) Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet, navigate the ups and downs of life in New York City.
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Originally published on Mon May 7, 2012 8:42 am

Lena Dunham was just 23 years old when her second feature film, Tiny Furniture, won the best narrative feature prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The movie's success led to Dunham striking a deal with HBO for a comedy series about a group of 20-something girls navigating New York City.

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Fresh Air Weekend
12:13 am
Sat May 5, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Sissy Spacek, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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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 Sat May 5, 2012 8:32 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
8:23 am
Fri May 4, 2012

The U.S. Ambassador Inside Hitler's Berlin

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Adolf Hitler (right) with his foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941.
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Erik Larson is the author of Issac's Storm, The Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck.
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This interview was originally broadcast on May 9, 2011. In The Garden Of Beasts is now available in paperback.

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Movie Reviews
8:23 am
Fri May 4, 2012

A Gershwin Biopic That 'Ain't Necessarily So' True

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George Gershwin's most famous works include Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess.
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Originally published on Fri May 4, 2012 12:58 pm

The movie Rhapsody in Blue, a biography of George Gershwin, was released only eight years after his death from a brain tumor at the age of 38. It's a good subject: Gershwin wrote some of the best popular songs ever produced in this country, but he also had ambitions to be a serious classical composer and wrote symphonic music, concertos and an opera — all of which are still performed.

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Movie Reviews
8:54 am
Thu May 3, 2012

'The Avengers': A Marvel-ous Whedonesque Ride

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Thor (Chris Hemsworth, left) and Captain America (Chris Evans) join up with Iron Man and the Hulk to save the Earth in The Avengers.
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Mark Ruffalo (left) and Robert Downey Jr. are both helped by ample amounts of CGI to transform into the Hulk and Iron Man, respectively.
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Originally published on Thu May 3, 2012 3:29 pm

Two spheres merge in The Avengers: the Marvel Comics universe and the Whedonverse, fans' name for the nerdy wisecracking existentialist superhero world of writer-director Joss Whedon.

The Whedon cult is smaller but maybe more fervent, inspiring academic conferences on such subjects as free will vs. determinism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I find a lot of Whedon's banter self-consciously smart-alecky, but I love how he can spoof his subjects without robbing them of stature.

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