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Theater
12:00 pm
Fri November 2, 2012

Past is Present in 'An Enemy Of The People'

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Originally published on Fri November 2, 2012 12:40 pm

Although it was written in 1882, Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People still resonates today. Richard Thomas and Boyd Gaines, the stars of a new production of the play, join Ira Flatow to talk about the play's themes of power and truth, and the role of whistle-blowers.

Author Interviews
11:50 am
Fri November 2, 2012

Rin Tin Tin: A Silent Film Star On Four Legs

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Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone and Esquire. She is the author of several books, including The Orchid Thief.
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This interview originally aired on Fresh Air on Jan. 9, 2012. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend is now out in paperback.

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Movie Reviews
5:27 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

'The Details': Dirty Doings In A Stepford Suburb

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Nealy and Jeff Lang (Elizabeth Banks and Tobey Maguire) struggle with infidelity, secrets, guilt and a raccoon problem in The Details.
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Rebecca (Kerry Washington) and Peter (Ray Liotta) face infidelity as well; The Details is about illustrating that in this suburb, life isn't nearly as Stepfordian as it seems.
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Originally published on Thu November 1, 2012 7:28 pm

The well-explored notion that something's rotten beneath the neighborly pleasantries and manicured lawns of suburbia has proved to be a durable one, if properly tweaked, updated or, in the case of The Details, taken literally and inflated to absurd, Lynchian heights.

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Performing Arts
4:35 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

Broadway To Sandy: The Show Is Back On

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Superstorm Sandy starting hitting New York on Monday. By Wednesday, life had returned to the Time Square theater district.
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Originally published on Thu November 1, 2012 5:42 pm

One of New York's biggest economic engines reopened on Wednesday after being dark in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Broadway brings in more than $1 billion in annual ticket sales and billions more in revenue from hotels, restaurants and other businesses in the Times Square area. But getting Broadway running, with much of the transportation system down, required some extreme measures.

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Author Interviews
4:35 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

Reading 125 Titles A Year? That's 'One For The Books'

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Writer Joe Queenan reads on average 125 books a year. He is also the author of Closing Time, Balsamic Dreams and Red Lobster, White Trash & the Blue Lagoon.
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Originally published on Thu November 1, 2012 6:37 pm

Joe Queenan reads so many books, it's amazing that he can also find time to write them. Queenan estimates he's read between 6,000 and 7,000 books total, at a rate of about 125 books a year — (or 100 in a "slow" year). "Some years I just went completely nuts," Queenan tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "A couple years ago I read about 250. I was trying to read a book every single day of the year but I kind of ran out of gas."

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