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Best Of: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson / Novelist Danzy Senna
Published: September 7, 2024 07:00
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimpse into her legal mind. And she gets personal about her childhood, marriage and her time as a public defender. Also, we hear from writer Danzy Senna, who writes…
Inside The Making Of 'The Sopranos'
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/1197980220/the-sopranos-wise-guy
Published: September 6, 2024 17:26
25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. There's a new two-part documentary, called Wise Guy, about the making of the show, centering on the series creator and executive producer, David Chase. We're using…
The Anti-Fascist Vigilantes Infiltrating White Nationalist Groups
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/1197980218/infiltrating-white-nationalists-kirkpatrick
Published: September 5, 2024 19:24
New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what the FBI can't, by infiltrating white nationalist groups to expose them and their planned attacks.Learn more about sponsor message choices:…
SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets Personal
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/1197980215/ketanji-brown-jackson-scotus
Published: September 4, 2024 19:22
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time as a public defender, and the poem she keeps in her office. Her new memoir is called Lovely One.Learn more about sponsor message choices:…
Danzy Senna Writes Herself (And Other Mixed-Race People) Into Existence
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/03/1197980173/danzy-senna
Published: September 3, 2024 19:10
Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father and white mother in an era when "mixed-race" wasn't a thing. "Just merely existing as a family was a radical statement at that time," she says. Her new book…
Film Icons: Spike Lee / Samuel L. Jackson
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/1197980155/spike-lee-samuel-jackson
Published: September 2, 2024 07:00
To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke with Terry Gross in 2017 about growing up in Brooklyn and his acting and directorial debut, the 1986 movie She's Gotta Have It. In 2000, Jackson talked…
Film Icons: Steven Spielberg / Carrie Fisher
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/31/1197980152/film-icons-steven-spielberg-carrie-fisher
Published: August 31, 2024 07:00
In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how he was afraid of everything as a kid. We'll also revisit our 2016 interview with actor Carrie Fisher about what it was really like to become a sex symbol…
Film Icons: Clint Eastwood / Eli Wallach & More
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/30/1197980150/clint-eastwood-westerns
Published: August 30, 2024 20:18
The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous squint in his closeups, but he told Terry Gross in 1997, it wasn't necessarily character driven. "They bombed me with a bunch a lights, and you're outside…
Film Icons: Dennis Hopper / Isabella Rossellini
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/1197980134/fresh-air-draft-08-29-2024
Published: August 29, 2024 18:41
We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini. They co-starred in the movie Blue Velvet, and after it became a hit, both of their careers were redefined. Later, on the…
Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/28/1197980129/meryl-streep-sidney-poitier
Published: August 28, 2024 20:29
Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor with the most Oscar nominations in history, spoke with Terry Gross in 2012 about playing Margaret Thatcher. And Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win…