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A Deserving Box Set.

Music review "Brasil: A Century Of Song" by Milo Miles. .

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 15, 1995: Review of the film "Sabrina"; Interview with Sydney Pollack; Review of the album "Brasil: A Century of Song"; Interview with Clifton Taulbert; Review of…
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From the Archives: Clifton Taulbert Discusses Growing Up with Segregation.

Writer Clifton Taubert grew up in the segregated South in the 1950s. His experiences growing up black in America are chronicled in his two memoirs When We Were Colored and the Pulitzer Prize nominated The Last Train North (Penguin Books). Taubert lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he is a businessman. When We Were Colored has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 8/8/95) (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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One of the Original Power Pop Groups.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews two new albums by The Smithereens: a new best-of, "Blown to Smithereens," (Capital Records) and a collection of rare old tracks, "Attack of the Smithereens."

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'Weird Al' Yankovic wants to 'bring sexy back' to the accordion

The music "biopic" parody Weird stars Daniel Radcliffe in an over-the-top version of Al Yankovic's life. In the film, making up words to songs that already exist is considered the work of a visionary, playing the accordion is akin to being a guitar hero and Yankovic is asked to be the next James Bond.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

Alexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, Viva, Auder and Auder's younger half-sister, Gaby Hoffmann, lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. It was was famous for having been home to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thomson, and Bob Dylan, among others.

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This fake 'Jury Duty' really put James Marsden's improv chops on trial

In the series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror--but what Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake.

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