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5 questions about the new streaming service Max — after a glitchy launch

2:16pm May 23, 2023

by Eric Deggans

How much does it cost? Will Max be better or just bigger than HBO Max? NPR's Eric Deggans tackles these questions and more ... now that he's finally able to log in.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a writer whose husband hates the novel she's working on in You Hurt My Feelings.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls the first laugh she got — and the ER trip that followed

2:05pm May 23, 2023

by Dave Davies

She was about 3 years old and had stuck raisins up her nose — but she made her mom laugh so she calls it a win. The Veep star plays a writer whose husband hates her new novel in You Hurt My Feelings.

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For his "Rich Spirit" / "N95" medley on SNL, Kendrick Lamar performed with minimal visual accompaniment, perfectly geared for the raw intimacy of his newest material.

'SNL' just wrapped its 48th season: It's time to cruelly rank its musical guests

10:20am May 23, 2023

by Stephen Thompson

From Kendrick Lamar and Megan Thee Stallion to Coldplay, here they are: the magnificent, the flawed-but-forceful, the forgettable and the truly, epically misbegotten.

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Actress Patricia Arquette brings sass and vulnerability to her 'High Desert' role

5:28pm May 22, 2023

Patricia Arquette talks about her role in the new Apple TV+ series, High Desert.

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Wanda Sykes performs at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia during her Netflix special I'm an Entertainer.

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Wanda Sykes stands in solidarity with Hollywood writers: 'We can't back down'

1:28pm May 22, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

As a member of the Writers Guild of America, Sykes is fully supportive of the current strike; she says the survival of the craft is at stake. Her new Netflix special is I'm an Entertainer.

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During World War II, the American Red Cross Clubmobile corps (shown here on an airfield in England in 1943) provided donuts, coffee and friendly conversation to the troops.

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Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII's forgotten volunteers — including his mother

1:28pm May 22, 2023

by Maureen Corrigan

The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.

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Mary Tyler Moore, shown here in 1969, won seven Emmy Awards over the course of her career.

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Hats off to an illuminating new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore

1:28pm May 22, 2023

by David Bianculli

HBO's Being Mary Tyler Moore draws on interviews and home movies to create a complex portrait of Moore, from her complicated private life, to her groundbreaking career.

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Halle Bailey stars as Ariel in Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid — the studio's latest blatant cash-grab.

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'The Little Mermaid' is the latest of Disney's poor unfortunate remakes

11:59am May 22, 2023

by Aisha Harris

Disney has a formula: Take a beloved animated property, update its sensibilities for modern audiences, recast it with a bunch of familiar faces and voices, and rehash it all in "live-action"/CGI form.

Roman (Kieran Culkin) thought he was ready to take over after his triumph on election night. He was wrong.

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'Succession' season 4, episode 9: 'Church and State'

10:16pm May 21, 2023

by Linda Holmes

Logan's funeral is a wrenching experience for his kids — and then they get right back to scheming and plotting, as civil unrest in the streets grows closer.

Simran Jeet Singh, pictured here in the days after the attack on the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012, says he turned to his faith to help him through.

Letting go of hate by questioning the very idea of evil

5:17pm May 21, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Author Simran Jeet Singh talks about how to move beyond hate and anger to see the humanity in others.

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