Bob Mondello
Stories
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Movies
Counting ballots stressing you out? Watch these movies instead
Counting ballots is on many Americans' minds this week. NPR's movie critic says he's been distracting himself from the election with cinematic counting.
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Arts & Life
Billy Eichner says straight people 'just didn't show up for Bros' at the box office
The film is the first gay romantic comedy with a mostly LGBTQ cast to be given a wide release by a major studio. It took in a disappointing $4.8 million in its first weekend.
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Environment
'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy
A pair of documentaries glean what it can from a pre-WWII home movie and Indigenous efforts to halt the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
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Arts & Life
Like a mob hit – the passing of a generation of movie gangsters
Funerals for Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Paul Herman, and Tony Sirico — all in a few weeks. It's the passing of a generation of Hollywood's most celebrated "mobsters."
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National
Bob Rafelson, 'Five Easy Pieces' director, has died at age 89
Filmmaker Bob Rafelson, a key figure in the 1970s New Hollywood movement and director of Five Easy Pieces, has died at 89 from lung cancer.
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National
In 'Thor: Love & Thunder,' the hammer-throwing hero takes on Gorr the God Butcher
Thor becomes the first Marvel superhero to get a four-quel in Thor: Love & Thunder, which finds him battling a villain called Gorr The God Butcher.
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Arts & Life
James Caan, an onscreen tough guy and movie craftsman, has died at 82
Caan's memorable screen appearances included Brian's Song, The Godfather, Misery and Elf.
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Arts & Life
Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides
A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.
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National
'Goodfellas' actor Ray Liotta has died at age 67
Actor Ray Liotta, who rocketed to film stardom in Goodfellas, has died in his sleep at a hotel in the Dominican Republic where he was filming a movie. He was 67.
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National
In 'A New Era,' Dame Maggie Smith remains the best reason to watch 'Downton Abbey'
Maggie Smith's dowager countess acquires a villa in the South of France, so the Downton household goes on a field trip in Downton Abbey: A New Era.