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Cooking With Emoji: We're Taking Eggplant Back From The Bros

2:39pm April 16, 2015

by Maria Godoy

The eggplant emoji has become a favorite of salacious sexters. To rescue its sullied rep, we turn to our emoji keyboards and conjure up recipes to highlight the fruit's, ahem, culinary attributes.

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Is There Anything Left To Say About 'Saturday Night Live'?

10:33am April 16, 2015

by Linda Holmes

The Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday with a documentary that faces a massive challenge: Trying to find a new angle on one of the most thoroughly documented institutions we have.

Billy Crystal (left) says that onstage Josh Gad (right) "lights up."

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Billy Crystal And Josh Gad: Separated By A Generation But United By Laughs

5:58pm April 15, 2015

The two play satirical versions of themselves on the new FX show The Comedians. But in real life they share "a lot of commonalities," says Crystal.

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'Justified' Ends With An Unpredictable, Poetic And Memorable Finale

2:22pm April 15, 2015

by David Bianculli

After six seasons on the FX network, Justified ended Tuesday. "What a triumph," says critic David Bianculli who adds that he loved the finale's "touches of grace" and "emphasis on character and tone."

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Timothy Olyphant plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on FX's Justified. The series finale airs tonight.

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The 'Justified' Finale Brings An End To Another TV Western

5:30pm April 14, 2015

by Eric Deggans

FX's powerful modern-day Western 'Justified' airs its series finale tonight. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says its end underscores the decline of a once-powerful TV genre.

In House of Cards, Kevin Spacey plays Frank Underwood, a politician who climbs to power using ruthless manipulation. Underwood's wife is Claire, played by Robin Wright.

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Forget Right And Wrong: 'House Of Cards' Is About Pragmatism And Power

3:05pm April 14, 2015

Kevin Spacey strangles a dog in the pilot, which creator Beau Willimon says producers balked at because they'd lose viewers. But "why not provide that litmus test right at the beginning?" he says.

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Stephen Hawking flying through the universe in a new video of Monty Python's Galaxy Song.

Stephen Hawking Covers Monty Python's 'Galaxy Song'

9:01am April 14, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The renowned physicist is featured in a soon-to-be-released video of the classic song from the 1983 film The Meaning of Life.

Asian music hitmaker Jae Chong, at work in a studio in Seoul. His work is all over Asian charts, but his passport is American.

How Asian-Americans Found A Home In The World Of K-Pop

8:33am April 14, 2015

by Elise Hu

For all the unique "Asian-ness" of K-pop, many of its stars are American-born and raised. And now that K-pop's gone global, Asian-American artists are more at home than ever.

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Edie Falco stars in Showtime's "Nurse Jackie."

'Nurse Jackie' Ends As TV's Most Honest Depiction Of Addiction

4:46pm April 13, 2015

by Eric Deggans

Showtime's dramedy Nurse Jackie begins its final season Sunday. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show offers television's most realistic depiction of a high functioning drug addict.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer on HBO's Veep.

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The Hapless 'Veep' Staff Trips Itself Up As Selina Ascends

1:02pm April 13, 2015

by Linda Holmes

HBO's terrific political satire returned Sunday night as a teleprompter created a disaster.