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'Bad Sex In Fiction' Award Goes To Novelist Who Compared Skin To Stained Bathtub

10:45pm December 01, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

American writer Christopher Bollen received the, uh, honor, which was announced on Thursday. His novel The Destroyers featured a memorable pair of less-than-appealing analogies.

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'The Disaster Artist' Is The Best Movie About A Bad Movie

5:13pm December 01, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Tommy Wiseau's The Room has inspired a cult following, a video game and a "making-of" memoir. Now, the memoir has been turned into a movie, directed by and starring James Franco. It's called The Disaster Artist.

Complexity Of Touring With Rosewood Instruments May Soon Be Eased

4:41pm December 01, 2017

by Robert Benincasa

Complex regulations around the material, including a confusing permit process for musicians, may be much easier to navigate after a meeting today in Geneva.

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LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'

4:23pm December 01, 2017

Jones lost countless friends to the AIDS epidemic. He became an activist after Harvey Milk's assassination: "Meeting Harvey, seeing his death, it fixed my course." Originally broadcast Nov. 29, 2016.

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Delusions Of Grandeur Take Center Stage In James Franco's 'Disaster Artist'

4:23pm December 01, 2017

by David Edelstein

Critic David Edlestein says Franco sends audiences into hysterics as the director and star of a new biopic about Tommy Wiseau, an oddball filmmaker with vision and drive — but very little talent.

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Robert Schumann - The Epitome Of 19th Century Romantic Composers

12:31pm December 01, 2017

Robert Schumann was a compulsive, Romantic composer in love with love, and he embodied the spirit of the early 19th century.

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Hanks For Nothin'

11:42am December 01, 2017

Break out your multiple Oscars for a game that mashes up Tom Hanks movie titles! It's his best work since Apollo 13 Going On 30.

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Start Me Up

11:42am December 01, 2017

DING! That imaginary bell means it's time for an audio quiz about the sounds you hear when events, movies, and video games begin.

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Jason Mraz: Choco-mole And Pie

11:42am December 01, 2017

Mraz recounts the palm reading that led him to drop out of college and make music, and how Sara Bareilles brought him to the Broadway musical Waitress. Then we quiz this organic farmer on avocados.

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This, That, Or The Other

11:42am December 01, 2017

Contestants guess whether phrases are spooky urban legends, nicknames of old-timey Hall of Fame baseball players, or a phrase following "The Adventure of" in the title of a Sherlock Holmes story.

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