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'Me And Earl' Director Traces Path From Scorsese's Assistant To Sundance

5:55pm June 23, 2015

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance. He talks about how losing his dad shaped his approach to the film.

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Noah Charney is an art historian and writer, and the founder and president of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group devoted to issues of art crime.

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Could The Masterpiece Be A Fake? Profit, Revenge And 'The Art Of Forgery'

2:24pm June 23, 2015

The art world is "fertile ground for criminals," says art scholar Noah Charney. In his new book, The Art of Forgery, he traces a tradition of fakes and forgeries that dates back to the Renaissance.

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After Years Of Blackouts, A Writer Remembers What She 'Drank To Forget'

1:34pm June 23, 2015

by NPR Staff

Sarah Hepola's memoir Blackout is filled with stories that are both funny and tragic — about how she'd drink to excess, and then try to piece it all together the following day.

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Immortalized As 'The Woman In Gold,' How A Young Jew Became A Secular Icon

1:34pm June 23, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis. A film now tells the story of Adele's niece, who fought to recover her family's paintings more than a half century later.

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The flamingo ornament was one of hundreds of items that Donald Featherstone made for the Union Products plastics company.

Man Who Created The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo Dies

1:15pm June 23, 2015

by Lucy Perkins

Donald Featherstone modeled the lawn ornament after images he saw in National Geographic. "Things I did made people happy, and that's what life is all about," he said in 2006.

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Capturing the Rural South: Photographer William Christenberry

9:01am June 23, 2015

by David Ford

For more than 50 years, photographer William Christenberry has toured rural Alabama with his camera, capturing images of the landscape.

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Carnivals, Curses And Mermaids Fall Slightly Flat In 'Speculation'

7:03am June 23, 2015

by Jason Heller

Erika Swyler's generous yet somewhat disappointing debut follows a young man and a mysterious book — but despite rich language and observations, it suffers from going in too many directions at once.

Apatow (who dressed up as Harpo Marx for Halloween in 1975) was one of the youngest kids in his grade. "When you're little, that year is impactful," he says. "You are smaller, you are behind in every possible way."

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Judd Apatow: A Comedy-Obsessed Kid Becomes 'Champion Of The Goofball'

1:07am June 23, 2015

When Apatow was a teen he landed interviews with an impressive roster of comics for his high school radio show. Sick in the Head is a collection of those conversations, and more recent ones as well.

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'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent

10:32pm June 22, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Forbes and her daughter Imogene Wolodarsky about their new film, Infinitely Polar Bear. Forbes wrote and directed the fictionalized take on her own childhood.

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From Civilian To Spy: How An Average Guy Helped Bust A Russian Agent

7:39pm June 22, 2015

by NPR Staff

You'd think spying on the Russians would require some training, but Naveed Jamali had none. "Probably some Magnum P.I. episodes and a few movies here and there," he says. "That was about it."

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