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Not My Job: Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Quizzed On Unlikely Inventions

11:36am September 24, 2016

In the late 1980s, Curtis filed a patent for a diaper/baby wipe combo, so we've invited her to play a game called "Eureka!" Three questions about inventors and their inventions.

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'Let There Be Laughter': Modern Jewish Jokes Poke At Assimilation

8:59am September 24, 2016

Michael Krasny's new book is called Let There Be Laughter. He tells NPR's Scott Simon about this treasury of great Jewish jokes, and why they matter.

Schrafft's was a chain of restaurants, with a candy store attached, that catered to ladies who lunch. To NPR's Lynn Neary, who used to waitress there, Schrafft's "always felt like the epicenter of the comfort zone."

While Everyone Was Partying At Woodstock, I Was Stuck At Schrafft's

8:51am September 24, 2016

by Lynn Neary

The chain restaurant that catered to women helped redefine how Americans eat, according to a new book. For NPR's Lynn Neary, it also defined how she did and didn't fit with the counterculture.

Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Raquel Zaldivar/NPR)

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A Cartoonist Confronts The Power Of His Pen In 'Reputations'

7:00am September 24, 2016

by Juan Vidal

Juan Gabriel Vásquez's new novel centers on a respected and feared political cartoonist whose past comes back to haunt him after he receives a threatening letter. It's a powerful, concentrated work.

Queen of Katwe was filmed in English, but that isn't Madina Nalwanga's first language. "She worked extremely hard," co-star Lupita Nyong'o says, "and I think her discipline as a dancer came in very handy."

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Ugandan Actress's Journey Mirrors That Of Her 'Queen Of Katwe' Character

7:33pm September 23, 2016

by NPR Staff

Like her chess champion character, first-time film actress Madina Nalwanga grew up in a poor neighborhood in Uganda. She says co-star Lupita Nyong'o has been her guide to the world of moviemaking.

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'Audrie & Daisy' Explores Social Media Shaming After Sexual Assaults

4:43pm September 23, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to co-directors and husband and wife duo, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, about their documentary, Audrie & Daisy. The documentary addresses the sexual assault — and ensuing social media shaming — of two high school girls.

The updated, multicultural gang of gunslingers in The Magnificent Seven.

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This Freshly Diverse 'Seven' Ups The Firepower

4:43pm September 23, 2016

by Bob Mondello

The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a movie that's already a remake that's updated in both casting and body count.

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Mary Karr On Writing Memoirs: 'No Doubt I've Gotten A Million Things Wrong'

3:47pm September 23, 2016

Karr discusses the faults of memory, the challenges of writing about loved ones and the pain of deleting pages because "there was something untrue about them." Originally broadcast Sept. 15, 2015.

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It's Hard to Tell Who's Shooting Whom In 'The Magnificent Seven'

3:47pm September 23, 2016

by David Edelstein

Critic David Edelstein says that despite its irresistible plot, Antoine Fuqua's remake of the 1960 classic Western is ultimately "just another formula revenge picture."

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Lowe's Donates $1M To African American Museum

11:48am September 23, 2016

by Neal Charnoff

Lowe's Home Improvement is donating $1 million dollars to the Smithsonian's National Museum of A

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