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Celebrating movie icons: Clint Eastwood

10:53am August 30, 2024

by Terry Gross

Eastwood's breakout role came in the 1964 Western A Fistful of Dollars. In 1997 he talked about his signature squint: "[There's a] bunch of lights ... and it's 90 degrees and it's hard not to squint."

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This week's quiz is very demure, very _______. Can you fill in the blank?

5:00am August 30, 2024

This week, we have two middle-aged men who are not Tim Walz and JD Vance sniping at each other. Plus: drugs, Tolkien, sports and novelty beverages! Have fun.

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The world’s oldest film festival is underway in Italy

1:50am August 30, 2024

by Michel Martin

The world’s oldest film festival is underway in Italy -- it's the Venice International Film Festival. We learn more about this year’s most talked about entries.

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On the Beltway, a DC Jazz Festival playlist curated by artist-in-residence Corcoran Holt

9:26pm August 29, 2024

Corcoran Holt's On the Beltway, a DC Jazz Festival playlist

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The fiction books we are excited about coming out this fall

5:59pm August 29, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Fall is a huge season for books, leading up to the holidays. We take a look at some of the most anticipated fiction titles coming out in the next few months.

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E-books are expensive for libraries. Some states are trying to change that

4:48pm August 29, 2024

For years, libraries have complained about how expensive it is for them to license eBooks. Now, several states are considering legislation to bring the cost down.

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Gucci Mane and DJ Drama, back in the trunk

12:30pm August 29, 2024

Over a decade after their classic run upended digital culture, the rapper and mixtape mogul reunite to show listeners why it mattered — and what a younger generation of trap artists has learned.

'Fresh Air' marks the centennial of the 'Queen of Blues' Dinah Washington

10:16am August 29, 2024

Washington, who died in 1963, was born in Alabama and got her start singing in church. Throughout her relatively short, two-decade career, she boasted — and proved — that she could sing anything.

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Celebrating movie icons: Isabella Rossellini

10:14am August 29, 2024

by Terry Gross

Rossellini talked about being the daughter of movie icons Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini and about playing playing an abused woman in Blue Velvet.

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Celebrating movie icons: Dennis Hopper

9:58am August 29, 2024

by Terry Gross

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

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