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In this undated photo, Theodore Roosevelt waves to a crowd.

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3 Roosevelts Come Alive In PBS Documentary, Ken Burns' Best Yet

11:56pm September 11, 2014

by David Bianculli

A 14-hour biography of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Delano starts Sunday. Actors including Paul Giamatti and Meryl Streep put on Emmy-worthy vocal performances reading from an Emmy-worthy script.

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Richard Kiel (front) and Roger Moore at a ceremony in 2007 to honor Moore with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kiel, who played Jaws in two Bond films opposite Moore, died Wednesday. He was 74.

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Richard Kiel, Actor Who Played Jaws In Bond Films, Dies At 74

5:00pm September 11, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Kiel delighted moviegoers with his quiet menace and his metal teeth in the role of Jaws, the Bond villain henchman who not only survived his encounters with 007, but also lived happily ever after.

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'Father And Son' Is Part Homage, Part Indictment

12:29pm September 11, 2014

by Heller McAlpin

Marcos Giralt Torrente's memoir of his absentee father, the famed Spanish painter Juan Giralt, frequently resorts to lists and repetition to get across Torrente's exasperation, anger and love.

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Artist's Studio is a Unique Collaboration Between UNCSA and SECCA

8:37am September 11, 2014

by David Ford

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Theodore Roosevelt, seen here in 1885, was haunted by the fact that his father didn't fight in the Civil War.

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Ken Burns' 'The Roosevelts' Explores An American Family's Demons

6:29pm September 10, 2014

by NPR Staff

In a new PBS documentary series, Burns turns his lens to Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how each triumphed over adversity.

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Twin City Stage Presents Into the Woods

8:43am September 10, 2014

by David Ford

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A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was displayed at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in 2013. Book critic Maureen Corrigan — who calls the cover "striking" — says she likes to think that if it landed on her porch t

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How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel

2:53pm September 09, 2014

In So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan looks at the story behind The Great Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's life to the era in which it's set. She says it's her favorite novel, but it wasn't always.

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UNCG Performing Arts Series Presents An Evening with Ellis and Jason Marsalis

10:19am September 09, 2014

by David Ford

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James Ellroy's 'Perfidia' Is A Brutal, Beautiful Police Procedural

7:32pm September 08, 2014

by Jason Sheehan

Perfidia is a sprawling novel that takes place in 1940s LA. There are Pearl Harbor, internment camps, schemes within schemes. Ellroy weaves an epic tale that evokes an ugly time and an awful place.

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In A Brilliantly Disorienting Film, A Teenager Is 'Starred Up' To An Adult Prison

1:47pm September 08, 2014

by David Edelstein

The British drama depicts remarkable characters, including an angry teenager who meets two father figures behind bars. It's a prison film that's shattering beyond physical violence.

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