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"[Sadness is] such a funny opposite energy to Joy, who is literally jumping up and down," Poehler says. "And Sadness just wants to lie down and kind of feel her feelings." Poehler plays Joy (left) and Phyllis Smith plays Sadness in the new film Inside Out

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'Sadness Is Like A Superhero': Amy Poehler On Pixar's 'Inside Out'

10:23am June 24, 2015

by NPR Staff

The movie, directed by Pete Docter, follows the five emotions inside an 11-year-old's head. Poehler plays Joy, but she says Sadness' strength is she knows how to talk about loss.

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Composer James Horner, seen here at a movie premiere in 2012, is believed to have died in a plane crash.

James Horner, A Giant Among Movie Music Composers, Is Dead, Agents Say

11:38pm June 23, 2015

by Bill Chappell

A single-engine plane registered to Horner crashed on Monday in an area 60 miles from Santa Barbara, Calif. There were no survivors.

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'Me And Earl' Director Traces Path From Scorsese's Assistant To Sundance

5:55pm June 23, 2015

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance. He talks about how losing his dad shaped his approach to the film.

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Apatow (who dressed up as Harpo Marx for Halloween in 1975) was one of the youngest kids in his grade. "When you're little, that year is impactful," he says. "You are smaller, you are behind in every possible way."

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Judd Apatow: A Comedy-Obsessed Kid Becomes 'Champion Of The Goofball'

1:07am June 23, 2015

When Apatow was a teen he landed interviews with an impressive roster of comics for his high school radio show. Sick in the Head is a collection of those conversations, and more recent ones as well.

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'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent

10:32pm June 22, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Forbes and her daughter Imogene Wolodarsky about their new film, Infinitely Polar Bear. Forbes wrote and directed the fictionalized take on her own childhood.

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'Jurassic World' Speaks A Universal Language

2:05pm June 19, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Jurassic World made more than $500 million in less than a week. The movie was No. 1 in every country. That includes China which only allows about 30 Hollywood movies to officially screen each year.

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Pixar's 'Inside Out' Is A Mind-Opening Masterpiece

1:26pm June 19, 2015

by David Edelstein

Director Pete Docter had the idea for this movie a little over five years ago after he saw his own 11-year-old daughter become sad and tried to imagine how the world looked through her eyes.

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Why The Key Character In 'Inside Out' Is The One Who Isn't There

11:38am June 19, 2015

by Linda Holmes

Surprisingly, Pixar's latest goes without an element that almost every adventure movie for kids is sure to provide: a villain.

Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) catch a ride on the Train of Thought in Disney and Pixar's Inside Out.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Inside Out' And Moms And Dads In Love

9:30am June 19, 2015

by Linda Holmes

On this week's show, we explore Pixar's new exploratory movie about a girl's brain, and we talk about why pop culture often struggles to give parents rich, satisfying romantic lives.

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Mark Ruffalo, Imogene Wolodarsky and Ashley Aufderheide in Infinitely Polar Bear.

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Difficult Times With A Difficult Father In 'Infinitely Polar Bear'

7:26pm June 18, 2015

by Ella Taylor

Mark Ruffalo plays a father struggling with bipolar disorder in Maya Forbes' domestic comedy based on the director's experience with her own dad.