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Donald Glover as Earn Marks and Zazie Beetz as Van in Atlanta on FX.

Arts

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

5:01pm October 21, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Atlanta season 4, The Lair of The White Worm, and old reality TV on free streaming channels.

Country music artists Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile made a on their new documentary

4:27pm October 21, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with country music legend Tanya Tucker and artist Brandi Carlile about their new documentary, "The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile."

Arts

Remembering Angela Lansbury, a legend of the stage and screen

1:40pm October 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

The Tony Award-winning actor starred in the Broadway musicals Mame, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd, as well as the TV series Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury died Oct. 11. Originally broadcast in 1980 and 2000.

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Black Adam the character (Dwayne Johnson) tosses lightning, but Black Adam the movie is a Faraday cage.

Arts

In 'Black Adam,' a lightning-based champion can't hold a charge

5:01am October 21, 2022

by Glen Weldon

Dwayne Johnson certainly looks the part of the DC Universe's most powerful anti-hero, but he buries his movie-star charisma under a dour ponderousness.

Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at federal court for a civil trial in New York City on Thursday.

Arts

A jury finds that Kevin Spacey didn't molest actor Anthony Rapp in 1986

5:36pm October 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

A jury sided with Kevin Spacey in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star's career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown Broadway actors.

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Movie Review: 'The Banshees of Inisherin'

4:27pm October 20, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Writer and director Martin McDonagh reunited with "In Bruges" stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in his new drama-comedy, "The Banshees of Inisherin."

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Actress Andrea Riseborough on her new movie, "To Leslie"

4:27pm October 20, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actress Andrea Riseborough about her new movie, "To Leslie." It's about a single mother who wins the lottery but quickly loses the money.

Anna May Wong, ca. 1935. The U.S. Mint will begin shipping quarters featuring the Asian American film star next week.

Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency

4:36pm October 18, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

Dubbed Hollywood's first Asian American movie star, Wong championed the need for more representation and less stereotypical roles for Asian Americans on screen. She will be featured on new quarters.

Meet this all-female thrash metal band from Lebanon in a new documentary

2:20pm October 18, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Lilas Mayassi and Rita Baghdadi about the new documentary, "Sirens." Baghdadi profiles Mayassi's female thrash metal band, Slave to Sirens, known as Lebanon's first.

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Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Federal court for his civil lawsuit trial on Oct. 12 in New York. Spacey is facing a jury in a New York City courtroom during a civil trial accusing him of sexually abusing a 14-year-old actor in the 1980s when he was 26.

From the witness stand, Kevin Spacey denies sex abuse claims

5:20pm October 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.