Raise A Glass Of Butterbeer As Potter's 'Wizarding World' Comes To Hollywood
You might think Harry Potter fever would be petering out now that the books and the films have come and gone. You, of course, would be wrong, as Ben Bergman reports on today's Morning Edition.
View ArticleDiablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'
Charlize Theron is ugly in Young Adult, the new film from the Juno team of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody — both literally and personally. In parts of the film, she still looks...
View ArticleCallin' Oates: The Hotline You Don't Need (But Might Call Anyway)
Is it pure whimsy that makes something like "Callin' Oates" appealing? If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you'll get a computerized woman's voice telling...
View ArticleFor 'Downton' Fans, A New Season And A New Book
It's almost here. And by "it," we mean the new season of Downton Abbey, the BBC drama about the Crawley family and their servants that PBS imported for Masterpiece Classic with great success. Series...
View ArticleA Complex 'Separation' In Iran
The Iranian drama A Separation has popped up on more than a few critics' lists of the best films of 2011, despite little exposure in the U.S. thus far. It will open in limited release December 30, and...
View Article'I'd Rather Be A Mystery': John Hawkes On Keeping His Hat Pulled Down
John Hawkes' conversation with Melissa Block on today's All Things Considered begins as many of his conversations might: with her noting that when she told people she was coming to talk to him and...
View ArticleThe Oscars: 'Hugo' Leads, But Expect An 'Extremely Loud' Outcry
In the end, there were nine nominees for Best Picture announced on Tuesday morning, and eight of them were entirely predictable: The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, Midnight In Paris, War...
View Article'The Artist' Comes Out On Top As The Oscars Regroup And Reminisce
It's perhaps fitting that during a year when Hollywood made even more films than usual about the love of film itself, the two big winners at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday night were the movies most...
View ArticleKristin Chenoweth On God, Comedy, And Dolly Parton
Kristin Chenoweth talks to Jacki Lyden on today's Weekends on All Things Considered, and if the only thing you got from the interview was Chenoweth warbling a bit of the first solo she ever did in...
View ArticleCheaper Clothes And Shorter Stories: On Soaps, Strange 'Days' Indeed
It's not easy being one of the last soaps standing, as Neda Ulaby reports on today's Morning Edition. For fans, the shuttering of iconic shows like All My Children and Guiding Light has upended...
View ArticleSpiders And Fighting And Trees, Oh My: Filming 'The Hunger Games'
There's a movie freshly out this weekend — perhaps you've heard of it. The Hunger Games? On Friday's Morning Edition, director Gary Ross and star Jennifer Lawrence talk to NPR's David Greene about the...
View Article'Mad Men' Returns On Sunday, To The Delight Of Its Excitable Fans
On Friday's Morning Edition, Elizabeth Blair investigates one of television's pressing questions: Why has Mad Men been off the air so long? It's returning this Sunday night with a two-hour season...
View ArticleKerry Washington On Bringing Washington 'Scandal' To TV
Kerry Washington knows that her new drama, Scandal, will inevitably be compared to another drama about D.C.: The West Wing. Scandal tells Audie Cornish on today's All Things Considered that it even has...
View ArticleLena Dunham's 'Girls': Still Sex, Still The City, Different Show
Lena Dunham's new series Girls debuts on HBO on April 15. Dunham, who got quite a bit of attention for being the star, director and writer of the 2010 indie film Tiny Furniture, fills the same three...
View ArticleThe Fourth Stooge: Memories Of 'Uncle Shemp'
This weekend, the Farrelly Brothers' version of The Three Stooges arrives in theaters. You'll see plenty of Larry, Moe and Curly. But who won't you see? Shemp. Or, as NPR's Sue Goodwin calls him,...
View ArticleGarry Marshall On His 'Happy Days'
Director Garry Marshall has worked on so much popular comedy in his career — television like Happy Days and The Odd Couple, movies like Pretty Woman and Beaches— that something he's done has probably...
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