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Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50

After the death of her 5-year-old daughter from leukemia, Rice wrote her 1976 novel as a way to process her grief. It would go on to become an international bestseller. Originally broadcast in 1990.
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Remembering Oscar-winning actor Eva Marie Saint

Saint, who died Oct. 6, studied at the Actors Studio and was best known for her roles in On the Waterfront and the Hitchcock film North by Northwest. Originally broadcast in 2000.
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Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder are masters of manipulation in a new documentary

Fielder's film offers a portrait of disgraced entrepreneur Holmes shortly before she began an 11-year prison sentence in 2023. You Can See Everything is full of surprises and strange rabbit holes.
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Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space

The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition is each other.
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Aboard an icebreaker, a writer got a closer look at the Arctic's 'Sea Change'

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.
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'New Yorker' cartoonists admit to having 'The Two Saddest Kitchens'

The Two Saddest Kitchens is a comic conversation between Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it made her laugh and feel better about her own (lack of) cooking.
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Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music

Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Chris Rock returns to directing with the high-powered, if problematic, 'Misty Green'

Rosalind Eleazar plays a once-successful Hollywood actor whose career has taken a downward turn in a film that takes viewers to bleaker places than they might anticipate.
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Mahershala Ali is still hungry as an actor: 'Let's fail on camera until we find it'

Ali plays a devout Muslim family man, who also happens to be an assassin in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. After decades in the business and two Oscars, he says he has less fear as an actor.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Murray Hill; Michael Douglas

Somebody Somewhere actor Hill charts his own course in Showbiz! Maureen Corrigan reviews The Two Saddest Kitchen. Douglas reflects on his early life and Hollywood career in One Helluva Ride.
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