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Fresh Air Weekend: Tilda Swinton; Adrien Brody

5:00am January 11, 2025

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. Justin Chang reviews Hard Truths. Brody drew on his family's immigration story for his role in The Brutalist.

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On Writing and Failure, by Stephen Marche

Books
Arts

Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection

by Maureen Corrigan

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Costume designer Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar in 2019 for her work on Black Panther. She's been nominated for another Academy Award for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Arts

An Oscar-winning costume designer explains how clothes 'create a mood'

by Tonya Mosley

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Music & Culture

Fresh Air pays tribute to legendary composer Burt Bacharach

by Terry Gross

Bacharach, who died Feb. 8, wrote hits in the '60s and early '70s with longtime collaborator Hal David. We listen to a 2010 interview with them, and a '98 interview with Bacharach and Elvis Costello.

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Activists hold a banner reading "Take down the Sackler name" in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1, 2019.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'; Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau

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Max (Salma Hayek Pinault) convinces Mike (Channing Tatum) to join her in London in Magic Mike's Last Dance.

Arts

In the 'Last Dance,' Magic Mike leaves his thong-and-dance routine behind

by Justin Chang

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Fresh Air celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Schoolhouse Rock'

by Terry Gross

Schoolhouse Rock used catchy tunes and videos to teach math, grammar and history. We listen to archival interviews with music director Bob Dorough, songwriter Dave Frishberg and singer Jack Sheldon.

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Potions, spells, and all manner of magical mischief await in Hogwarts Legacy.

Arts

Review: 'Hogwarts Legacy' is open world magic, but can't escape Rowling controversy

by Brittany Vincent

Mohammad Saud cares for black kite birds in Delhi, India, in the documentary All That Breathes.

Arts

It's easy to focus on what's bad — 'All That Breathes' celebrates the good

by John Powers

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'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

by Terry Gross

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Stokely Carmichael, shown here in 1967, helped popularize the term "Black Power!" in 1966.

Books
Arts

How Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers changed the civil rights movement

by Terry Gross

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Books
Arts

A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'

by Maureen Corrigan

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Former prosecutor says Manhattan DA could have charged Trump with multiple crimes

by Dave Davies

Mark Pomerantz spent a year investigating Trump, from the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, to countless financial statements that wildly overstated assets. His book is People Vs. Donald Trump.

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