DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m TV critic David Bianculli. Twenty-five years ago, in January 1999, HBO premiered a new drama series called “The Sopranos,” created by David Chase and starring James Gandolfini as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano. It had a major impact on television viewers and TV history from start…
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Following Florida’s recent ban on certain courses that were deemed “too woke,” school curricula statewide are starting to look very different from those in the rest of the country. Luckily, these Florida classes provide a more than sufficient education for real Americans, and offer instruction in a broad variety of subjects. Psychology Now that A.P….
Michael Keaton returns, with the same messy green hair, rotting teeth and mischievous streak as before, in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption toggle caption Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros. Pictures The impish demon known as Beetlejuice has been dead for centuries, but he’s enjoyed a pretty long life in popular culture. Tim Burton’s hit…
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hollywood spent this summer in recovery mode, recovering from COVID, strikes, even from hurricanes. Still, for the right film, like “Inside Out 2,” audiences flocked to cinemas. So what will be the films that really hit as the weather turns chilly? Critic Bob Mondello makes some educated guesses in his fall movie…
Danzy Senna says her first novel, Caucasia, was met with acclaim. “But one of the things I kept hearing from publishers was: Don’t do this again. Don’t keep writing about mixed-ness. … it’s that idea that you’re a predicament. You’re not a world.” Her latest novel is Colored Television. Dustin Snipes/Penguin Random House hide caption…
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Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation. Also, we regret to inform you that your children were exposed to lice at orientation. Consider the “getting sick at school” Band-Aid to be hereby ripped off! Fear not—we have lice checkers coming tomorrow, and we’ll make sure to let…
Copyright © 2024 by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston/Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London Have you ever read a children’s book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn’t really…
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A new version of the 1977 classic STAR WARS movie opens in Minnesota Theaters. And “the force be with you” will sound different. The dubbed-over version is in Ojibwe, the indigenous language of one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: “Star Wars” fans in Minnesota and Wisconsin yesterday…
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Once disparaged as “spaghetti Westerns,” Leone’s films helped revive the genre, and ushered in a unique visual style. In 2005, cultural historian Christopher Frayling reflected on Leone’s influence. DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Let’s continue with our series about classic films and movie…
The hippest new Italian-Indian fusion restaurant in a gentrified neighborhood near you will be bustling with couples come Saturday night. Here’s what’s bubbling beneath the surface of these seemingly innocuous dinner dates. The Couple That’s on Top of Each Other They’re playing footsie and giggling like schoolgirls. The overhyped orzo-biryani entrée that would make every…
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