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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

5:00pm September 13, 2024

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The shows Three Women and Empire, the movie Girls Will Be Girls, and the book Family Style.

'Baby Reindeer' is facing a lawsuit — that didn't stop it from winning 6 Emmys

3:39pm September 13, 2024

The woman who believes she inspired a stalker in the hit TV show Baby Reindeer sued Netflix over the summer. The case is still pending.

A new sculpture takes its place at the national World War I Memorial in D.C.

3:04pm September 13, 2024

Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for American World War I soldiers.

Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving, gets $500 fine and will make PSA

1:05pm September 13, 2024

Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his arrest in the Hamptons. “I did not live up to the standards that I try to hold for myself," he said.

Ahead of the Emmys on Sunday, NPR’s TV critic presents The Deggy awards

12:42pm September 13, 2024

Each year, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans throws out the Emmys rulebook and chooses his own awards for the best shows on television. Here are this year's Deggys.

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Remembering James Earl Jones, legend of the stage and screen

10:24am September 13, 2024

by Terry Gross

Jones, who died Sept. 9, voiced Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King. He started out in theater in the 1950s, and later won a Tony and an honorary Oscar. Originally broadcast in 1993.

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A dying father brings 'His Three Daughters' together, in a sharply written film

10:22am September 13, 2024

Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon play estranged sisters saying farewell to their terminally ill dad. It's a familiar plot, but writer-director Azazel Jacobs manages to sidesteps cliché.

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Ian McKellen relishes Machiavellian role in new film 'The Critic'

5:00am September 13, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Ian McKellen about his starring role as a powerful London theater critic who savages "bad performance" in Anand Tucker's new film The Critic.

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Step inside this legendary shop full of handmade costumes — while you still can

5:00am September 13, 2024

For nearly half a century, Ursula Boschet has run a legendary costume shop in Los Angeles. Now, the 90-year-old is closing up — and everything is for sale.

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Fall is right around the corner -- a great time to think about movies to watch

4:39am September 13, 2024

by Leila Fadel

A rundown of the fall movies that we should be looking forward to the most, and the standouts from the Toronto International Film Festival.

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