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Terry Gross

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.

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Levon Helm: The 2007 Fresh Air Interview

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Levon Helm was the longtime drummer and occasional vocalist for The Band.

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Originally published on Fri April 20, 2012 2:37 pm

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Levon Helm, the longtime drummer of The Band who backed Bob Dylan and sang with Van Morrison, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 71.

10:04 am

Thu April 19, 2012

From Dominican Roots, Bachata Is Here To Stay

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Joan Soriano.

By Milo Miles

Originally published on Thu April 19, 2012 10:39 am

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10:01 am

Thu April 19, 2012

The Stooges Are Back, And Nyuk-ing Things Up Again

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After they leave their orphanage for the first time, Curly (Will Sasso) bears a heavy burden — his fellow Stooges, Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos, left) and Larry (Sean Hayes).

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Directors and co-screenwriters Peter Farrelly (left) and Bobby Farrelly's other movies include There's Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber.

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Originally published on Thu April 19, 2012 11:11 am

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The Farrelly brothers have long been known for their gross-out humor and their shocking comedies. After writing and directing movies like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, There's Something About Mary and Shallow Hal -- where agreeable idiots get caught up in all sorts of trouble — Peter and Bobby Farrelly decided to tackle another set of goofy doofuses: The Three Stooges.

9:31 am

Thu April 19, 2012

Following The Lives Of Chimpanzees On Screen

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Over the course of filming, Oscar (pictured above) learned how to use rudimentary tools and how to get along with the other members of his clan.

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Alastair Fothergill was the executive producer of The Blue Planet and Planet Earth and the co-director of the films Deep Blue and Earth.

By editor

Originally published on Thu April 19, 2012 10:49 am

The new Disneynature film Chimpanzee started off the way most movies do. Co-producers and directors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill, who had previously worked together on the documentary film Earth, approached Disney with a 70-page script about a group of chimpanzees living in Western Africa. There was just one problem: Chimps don't take direction — or read scripts.

So Fothergill and Linfield teased out a narrative from more than three years' worth of footage they took in Western Africa while observing a large clan of chimpanzees.

11:36 am

Wed April 18, 2012

In 'Monsieur Lazhar,' Grief Lingers In The Classroom

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Fellag, an Algerian comedian, plays the title character in the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar, who steps in to teach a class of middle school students after tragedy has struck their classroom.

By David Edelstein

Teacher movies tend to be more alike than unalike, but Monsieur Lazhar makes the familiar unusually strange. The note on which it opens is shocking, tragic: A Montreal middle school student, Simon, enters his classroom ahead of the other kids and finds his teacher hanging from a pipe, dead by her own hand.

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Fri April 20, 2012