Pop Culture

On 'The Tonight Show,' A Relaxed Hillary Clinton, Finally

3:21pm September 17, 2015

by Amita Kelly

Clinton has struggled to seem at ease on the campaign trail given the controversy surrounding her use of a private email server as secretary of state. She broke through that Wednesday night.

Cabral plays Hector Tontz, a former gangbanger implicated in a drug-related murder, in ABC's American Crime. It wasn't long ago that Cabral himself was facing a possible 35-year sentence for violent assault.

Arts

How Former Gang Member Richard Cabral Went From Prison To Prime Time

1:52pm September 17, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

Cabral is up for an Emmy on Sunday, but it wasn't long ago that he was facing a possible 35-year sentence for violent assault. He says a program called Homeboy Industries helped turn his life around.

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Real-life best friends Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells star in HBO's Doll & Em, in which fictional versions of themselves try to write an off-Broadway play together.

Arts

Like A 'Hall Of Mirrors,' TV Duo Dance With Selves On Other Side Of Screen

6:43pm September 16, 2015

by NPR Staff

Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells are best friends and British actresses — who also happen to play best friends and British actresses on TV. In Doll & Em, the meta experiment gets a bit out of hand.

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Monty Python's John Cleese, Eric Idle Reunite In 'Together Again At Last'

6:43pm September 16, 2015

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to comedians John Cleese and Eric Idle of Monty Python about their new show, Together Again At Last...For The Very First Time, which begins its U.S. tour in October.

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Carson Daly jokes with host Neal Patrick Harris during last night's premiere episode of NBC's Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris.

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Neil Patrick Harris' 'Best Time Ever': A Variety Show In Need Of More Variety

3:00pm September 16, 2015

by David Bianculli

NBC's new live weekly show mixes mini-quiz shows, game shows, production numbers, stunt competitions and pranks. Despite all this, critic David Bianculli says it hasn't yet reached its full potential.

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Appeals Court Rules Youtube Video Of Baby Dancing To Prince Was Fair Use

7:43pm September 15, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the impact of this ruling. An appeals court ruled the music used in the video was an instance of fair use.

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Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton star in American Crime.

Arts

'American Crime': An Ambitious And Inventive Drama With Miles To Go

4:21pm September 15, 2015

by Linda Holmes

It's hard to predict where the complex American Crime might be headed, but it's led by terrific performances and it's tearing into some interesting issues.

National

3 Crazy Crazes Of The Late 1800s

2:53pm September 15, 2015

by Linton Weeks

Hairpin stealing, ring turning and automobiling — apparently folks in turn-of-the-20th-century America were as fad-prone as we are today.

Miss America pageant chief executive Sam Haskell apologizes to Vanessa Williams, who was forced to resign her Miss America title.

National

Miss America Pageant Apologizes To 1983 Winner Vanessa Williams

7:14pm September 14, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Vanessa Williams was forced to resign as Miss America in 1984 after nude photos of her were published in a magazine.

Pop icon and former Beatle Ringo Starr poses for the media in front of some of his photographs as he launches a book, Photograph, in London on Wednesday.

Ringo Starr Cleaning House, Will Auction Beatles 'Stuff' For Charity

4:18pm September 14, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Fab Four drummer is putting an original pressing of the White Album, a guitar once owned by John Lennon and one of his own Ludwig Oyster drum kits on the block.