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Deepika Padukone and Vin Diesel at a fan screening of xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage in Mumbai, India.

Bollywood Queen Deepika Padukone Sets Her Sights On Hollywood

12:21am February 05, 2017

by Bilal Qureshi

One of India's biggest movie stars, Deepika Padukone, is making her Hollywood debut in xXx: Return of Xander Cage. She's hoping to replicate her massive Bollywood success on American movie screens.

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Actress Anika Noni Rose stars in the new BET series, The Quad, as president of a fictional HBCU.

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30 Years After 'A Different World,' 'The Quad' Brings HBCU Life Back To TV

6:41pm February 04, 2017

by NPR Staff

Actress Anika Noni Rose discusses her new show The Quad. The series follows success and scandal on the campus of a fictional historically black university.

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Barbershop: When Sports Meet Politics

6:00pm February 04, 2017

Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, conservative commentator Lenny McAllister and ESPN magazine writer Pablo Torre discuss whether sports and politics can be separated.

A still from Budweiser's Super Bowl ad tells the story of one of Budweiser's founders.

Budweiser's Super Bowl Ad And The Great Debate Over What It Means To Be An American

6:32pm February 03, 2017

by Maria Godoy

Despite taking some historical liberties, Bud's new ad about its founder gets some things right — like the hostility toward new immigrants and suspicion of their un-American ways (like drinking).

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Oscar Documentaries And A Foreign Language Film We Loved

10:58am February 03, 2017

by Linda Holmes

On this week's show, we run down an impressive list of Oscar-nominated documentary features and dive into Asghar Farhadi's complicated, suspenseful The Salesman.

In Netflix's One Day at a Time, Justina Machado (center) plays a military veteran who is raising her two kids (Marcel Ruiz, left, and Isabella Gomez) without their father.

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Justina Machado On Her Quinceañera, Rita Moreno's Abs And 'One Day At A Time'

7:33pm February 02, 2017

by NPR Staff

Machado and Moreno star in Netflix's reboot of the 1970s sitcom. This time, the family is Cuban-American and its single mom (Machado) is a veteran who served in Afghanistan.

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Kim Cattrall as socialite — and murder victim — Emily French in The Witness for the Prosecution.

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Kim Cattrall, More Than Just A Murder Victim In 'Witness For The Prosecution'

8:25am January 29, 2017

by NPR Staff

Cattrall — best known for her role on Sex and the City — plays a murdered socialite in a new TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's play. She says she wanted to open up the character and understand her.

Brooding? Just a bit. Rufus Sewell stars as American Nazi leader John Smith in The Man in the High Castle.

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Cast As Brooding Leads, Rufus Sewell Says His Real Talent Is Comedy

8:11am January 28, 2017

by NPR Staff

Rufus Sewell is seemingly everywhere these days — on stage and on the small screen, including Amazon's alternate-history series The Man in the High Castle, in which he plays an American Nazi leader.

John Hurt waits for his photo to be taken in 2014 during a publicity tour for Snowpiercer. The British actor's death was confirmed Friday by his publicist.

John Hurt, 'Elephant Man' Star And Character Actor, Dies At 77

12:44am January 28, 2017

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Hurt recovered from a career lull in the '90s to take key supporting roles in movies such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Snowpiercer and last year's Jackie, and was a recent incarnation of Doctor Who.

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Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, The Smart, Comic Actress Who Inspired A Generation

2:56pm January 27, 2017

Moore, who died Wed. at the age of 80, played a single professional woman on the 1970s show named after her, and became beloved for her role on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Originally broadcast in 1995.

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