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Movie Interviews
12:31 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Getting Old Is Hard, Even (And Especially) For Models

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In About Face, former supermodels (including Carmen Dell'Orefice shown above) talk about what it's like to grow old in an industry that is obsessed with youth.
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Originally published on Mon July 30, 2012 4:02 pm

You'll probably recognize many of the women featured in the new HBO documentary About Face: The Supermodels Then and Now. They are some of the most famous and photographed models from the 1950s through the 1980s. Carol Alt and Beverly Johnson are two of the supermodels featured in the film. They are joined by director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders to talk with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about growing up — and growing older — in an industry obsessed with youth.

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Remembrances
12:31 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Actress Lupe Ontiveros

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Actress Lupe Ontiveros was known for her roles in the film Selena and the television series Desperate Housewives.
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Actress Lupe Ontiveros died Thursday of cancer at the age of 69. She was most famous for her role in the 1997 film Selena, but Ontiveros also acted with Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, played a strict mother in the independent film Real Women Have Curves and had a recurring role in the television series Desperate Housewives.

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You Must Read This
6:03 am
Mon July 30, 2012

An Existential Guide For When You're Really 'Lost'

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Adam Frank is the author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.
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Originally published on Mon December 3, 2012 12:16 pm

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist at University of Rochester and host of the 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog on NPR.org.

I don't read self-help books. On any given day my self seems to need so much help that 200 pages of cheerful advice and end-of-chapter exercises miss the core of my dilemma. The real question keeping me up at night is this: What the hell is a self anyway? How did I get one and why is it so damn desperate for help?

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Crime In The City
3:58 am
Mon July 30, 2012

Writer Has A Down-Home Feel For Atlanta's Dark Side

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Writer Karin Slaughter has seen the fallout of some of Atlanta's most gruesome crimes and most dramatic transitions.
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In addition to her Will Trent series, Karin Slaughter has also written a series of crime novels set in the fictional town of Heartsdale, Ga.
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Completed in 1936, Atlanta's Techwood Homes was the first public housing project in the nation. But in the years before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the community had become known for its poverty, gang violence and drug trafficking problems.
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Just before the Atlanta Olympics, Techwood Homes was torn down to make room for Centennial Place, a mixed-income housing development. Today, the neighborhood is transformed, but it still has a place in Slaughter's grisly crime fiction.
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Marla Lawson has worked as a forensic artist for the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for decades.
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Originally published on Mon July 30, 2012 7:24 am

Best-selling crime novelist Karin Slaughter (yes, that's her real name) grew up just south of Atlanta in the 1970s and '80s, when the city saw some of its most gruesome crimes: A rash of child murders in which dozens of African-American children disappeared, their bodies turning up in nearby woods and rivers. The realization that horrid crimes can happen even to children changed Slaughter's life.

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Book Reviews
3:58 am
Mon July 30, 2012

A Portrait Of A Country Awash In 'Red Ink'

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David Wessel has received the Pulitzer Prize and is the author of In Fed We Trust.
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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 4:15 pm

As the federal debt balloons, reducing it would seem more and more pressing. Yet policymakers remain far apart. Debt, deficit and budget rhetoric is often accompanied by numbers cherry-picked to support a particular political view.

But a new book by Wall Street Journal economics writer David Wessel lays out the numbers that both political parties face.

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