This week on "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain: Susan Kahn was in the hospital with terminal cancer. She was unable to attend her daughter's high school graduation.
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The shows Three Women and Empire, the movie Girls Will Be Girls, and the book Family Style.
Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for American World War I soldiers.
Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his arrest in the Hamptons. “I did not live up to the standards that I try to hold for myself," he said.
Each year, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans throws out the Emmys rulebook and chooses his own awards for the best shows on television. Here are this year's Deggys.
Jones, who died Sept. 9, voiced Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King. He started out in theater in the 1950s, and later won a Tony and an honorary Oscar. Originally broadcast in 1993.
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon play estranged sisters saying farewell to their terminally ill dad. It's a familiar plot, but writer-director Azazel Jacobs manages to sidesteps cliché.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Ian McKellen about his starring role as a powerful London theater critic who savages "bad performance" in Anand Tucker's new film The Critic.