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12:49 pm
Fri December 14, 2012

Behind The Scenes Of The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour'

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The Beatles look out of the Magical Mystery Tour coach skylight, on location in England in September 1967.
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Originally published on Fri December 14, 2012 2:01 pm

On Friday night on PBS, Great Performances presents a documentary about the making of a Beatles TV special from 1967 — Magical Mystery Tour — then shows a restored version of that special. Magical Mystery Tour has the music from the U.S. album of the same name, but it's not the album. It's a musical comedy fantasy about the Beatles and a busload of tourists taking a trip to unknown destinations.

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Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
12:20 pm
Fri December 14, 2012

NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of December 13, 2012

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Calvin Trillin's Dogfight sends up the 2012 presidential election. It debuts at No. 7.

Monkey See
11:18 am
Fri December 14, 2012

'Trouble Man' At 40: A Classic, But Where's Its Cult?

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Robert Hooks is Mr. T, the abrasive detective hero of Trouble Man, a 1972 blaxploitation classic that gets less than its due these days.
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Monkey See
9:56 am
Fri December 14, 2012

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Is Everything Worse Than Ever? And A Gift Guide!

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You can't fill your end-of-the-year season with nothing but good cheer, or you'll turn into a candy cane. (That's science.) So we chose to tackle a slightly darker topic this week: Is everything worse than ever?

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Movie Interviews
2:21 am
Fri December 14, 2012

Laura Linney, Keeping History Hush-Hush In 'Hyde Park'

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Linney's Daisy was on hand, along with Eleanor Roosevelt (Olivia Williams), to support the president on the weekend of a momentous visit by the king and queen of England in June of 1939, as Europe teetered on the brink of World War II.
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In Hyde Park on Hudson, Laura Linney plays one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's (Bill Murray) distant cousins — a reserved, self-contained woman with whom he carried on a quiet affair.
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Originally published on Fri December 14, 2012 4:33 am

For presidential-film buffs, this holiday season has some high-profile offerings. First, there was Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln. And out now, there's Hyde Park on Hudson, a peek behind the curtain and into the life of America's longest-serving president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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