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You Got Some Red On You: Anthony Hopkins accepts Spike TV's Scream Legend Award in 2008.

Jonathan Demme And The Simple Power Of The Close-Up

1:26pm April 26, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Demme, who directed 36 feature films and documentaries over the course of his long and varied career, died this morning. He was a filmmaker fascinated by the pure emotional force of the human face.

Elisabeth Moss and Alexis Bledel as the Handmaids Offred and Ofglen in Hulu's new limited series, The Handmaid's Tale.

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Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling

10:37am April 26, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel is a horror show revealed in slow motion — and the true horror of its brutal, patriarchal future theocracy is how possible it seems today.

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'Maud' Doesn't Quite Live Up To Its Heroine's Example

7:00am April 26, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

Lucy Maud Montgomery — creator of Anne of Green Gables — seems like the perfect subject for a work of young adult fiction. But Melanie Fishbane's Maud feels like a draft of a Montgomery story.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in 2016.

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'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving

5:10pm April 25, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

The Facebook executive lost her husband in 2015. She says, "Rather than offer to do something, it's often better to do anything. Just do something specific." Her new book is called Option B.

Scenes from Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992.

5 Films Look At The Los Angeles Riots From (Almost) Every Angle

4:22pm April 25, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The documentaries attempt to complete the picture of what transpired in LA in 1992 after Rodney King was beaten by police, showing how the riots affected a wide swath of Angelenos.

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A life-size bronze statue of Ernest Hemingway leans on the bar at the author's regular spot at El Floridita, where every day a daiquiri is set before it.

The Cocktail King Of Cuba: The Man Who Invented Hemingway's Favorite Daiquiri

2:49pm April 25, 2017

by Nicole Jankowski

Earning a spot on the author's list of most beloved drinks was no small feat. But bartender Constantino Ribalaigua, of Havana's now 200-year-old El Floridita, created a still-legendary cocktail.

The haunting opening page of Guy Delisle's Hostage.

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Gripping Comics Memoir 'Hostage' Puts You In The Room Where Nothing Happens

2:12pm April 25, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Cartoonist Guy Delisle departs from the first-person travelogue format which has won him acclaim to chronicle the true story of a man kidnapped and detained for months in the Caucasus region in 1997.

The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder.

Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward

1:46pm April 25, 2017

by Terry Gross

Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.

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Briga Heelan plays Katie, a news producer whose mother barges in on her already chaotic workplace.

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The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC

10:00am April 25, 2017

by Linda Holmes

A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.

Nation's Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. Students In Visual Arts, Music

12:07am April 25, 2017

by LA Johnson

It's the first time since 2008 that the federal government has released its assessment of U.S. eighth-graders in the arts. While there are some signs of progress, troubling achievement gaps remain.