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Peter Bergman: Remembering The 'Firesign' Satirist

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Peter Bergman graduated from Yale University and later attended the Yale School of Drama as a Eugene O'Neill playwriting fellow.

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Peter Bergman, one of the founding members of the four-man surrealist comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, died Friday of complications from leukemia. He was 72.

Bergman, along with collaborators David Ossman, Phil Proctor and Phil Austin, created satire out of the political and civil upsets of the 1960s and 1970s, blending surrealism, absurdities, non sequiturs, paranoia, parodies of the Establishment, sound effects, in-jokes about hippies and knowing allusions to literature and trash culture.

8:04 am

Mon March 12, 2012

Forgotten Gems From The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

By Kevin Whitehead

After Dave Brubeck signed with Columbia Records in the mid-1950s, his quartet made a few albums a year, and now that material has been collected in a 19-disc box set called The Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection.

9:05 pm

Fri March 9, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Maya Rudolph, William Shatner

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In his solo show, Shatner shares stories about his childhood, his father, and his lengthy acting career.

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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:

4:06 am

Fri March 9, 2012

'1861': A Social History Of The Civil War

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Adam Goodheart is the director of the Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.

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This interview was originally broadcast on April 12, 2011. 1861: The Civil War Awakening is now available in paperback.

The first shots of the American Civil War were fired almost 151 years ago in the Charleston, S.C., harbor. Less than two days later, Fort Sumter surrendered. It would take the Union army nearly four years to bring the coastal fortification back under its command.

2:39 pm

Thu March 8, 2012

'Friends With' Benefits From Its Complications

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In Friends With Kids, Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) play two best friends who decide to have a baby together while keeping their relationship platonic — so that the baby doesn't interfere with their own romantic relationships.

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Chris O'Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Jon Hamm play characters whose own relationships contrast with that of friends Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) and Jason (Adam Scott)

By David Edelstein

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The premise of Friends with Kids is the stuff of high-concept romantic comedies: Writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt plays Julie, who's at the age when her odds of childbearing lessen each year, and there's no mate in sight. So her best friend, Jason, played by Adam Scott, volunteers to impregnate her.

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8:47 am

Mon March 12, 2012