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Leslie Caron: Dancing From WWII Paris To Hollywood

In the 1950s, the moviegoing world fell in love with a young French ballerina and actress named Leslie Caron. She brightened the silver screen in musical films like 1958's Gigi, where she played a...

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Hopper's Lonely Figures Find Some Friends In Paris

Earlier this summer, I looked for Edward Hopper's Morning Sun at its home in the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. In the painting, a woman sits on a bed with her knees up, gazing out a window. She's...

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Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Eastern Music To Western Legends, Dies

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WWII 'Canteen Girl' Kept Troops Company From Afar

American service members have long spent holidays in dangerous places, far from family. These days, home is a video chat or Skype call away. But during World War II, packages, letters and radio...

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Hollywood's 'Hooray': Hardly A Happy Hymn

When the Oscars are handed out later this month, the ceremony will most likely be punctuated by music that has pretty much come to stand for movies and Movieland. Ironically, the composer grew up in...

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For Film Set Decorators, Tiny Details Count

Picture Rick's smoky cafe in Casablanca, Lincoln's office at the White House of the 1860s, or the Mos Eisley cantina on the desert planet of Tatooine: A production designer came up with the overall...

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For Publicist Marvin Levy, It's All About Eyeballs

Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln has earned 12 Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best director. Another Spielberg film — the multi-Oscar winning Schindler's List— will be celebrating...

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For John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Means Serious Mischief

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Painting 'Renoir' In Finely Detailed Strokes

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In NPR's New Building, Everything Will Be Better ... Again

Starting Saturday, Weekend Edition is broadcasting under the fourth roof that's sheltered National Public Radio. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg has worked in all of the locations since NPR...

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Friedkin, Who Pushed Film Forward, Looks Back

As a kid in Chicago, director William Friedkin liked to frighten little girls with scary stories. When he grew up, he scared the rest of us with a little girl — Regan MacNeil, who is possessed by the...

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At 90, Ellsworth Kelly Brings Joy With Colorful Canvases

American artist Ellsworth Kelly turned 90 in May, and there's been much celebration. On Wednesday, President Obama presented Kelly with the National Medal of Arts. Meanwhile, museums around the country...

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This Fountain Of Youth Has A Little Extra Zing

The Fountain of Youth at Punta Gorda, Fla., was so popular 40 years ago, residents remember waiting in line to get a drink. But in the 1980s, testing found high levels of radium in the well. In other...

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For F. Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald, A Dark Chapter In Asheville, N.C.

Asheville, a mountain town in North Carolina, is known for at least two important native sons: writers Thomas Wolfe, whose 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel eviscerated some locals, and Charles Frazier,...

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Exhibit Explores How Dior's Designs Echo Impressionist Paintings

When it was time to create a new collection, Christian Dior had a ritual: He went to his garden and sat down among the flowers.Fashion historian Florence Muller gathered drawings, photographs and...

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Pen Pal Of Young 'Jerry' Salinger May Have Been First To Meet Holden

Fans of the reclusive J.D. Salinger are in their element these days.

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In 1913, A New York Armory Filled With Art Stunned The Nation

One hundred years ago in New York City, nearly 90,000 people came to see the future of art. The 1913 Armory Show gave America its first look at what avant-garde artists in Europe were doing. Today...

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Thanksgivukkah: A Mash Of Two Holidays That's Easy To Relish

It's that time of year again. Time for Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish. Every year since 1972, around Thanksgiving, I've shared my mother-in-law's famous cranberry relish recipe on the radio. It's...

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For Film Set Decorators, Tiny Details Count

Picture Rick's smoky cafe in Casablanca, Lincoln's office at the White House of the 1860s, or the Mos Eisley cantina on the desert planet of Tatooine: A production designer came up with the overall...

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For Publicist Marvin Levy, It's All About Eyeballs

Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln has earned 12 Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best director. Another Spielberg film — the multi-Oscar winning Schindler's List— will be celebrating...

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