The Brian Lehrer Show: Celluloid Summer

The Brian Lehrer Show

Celluloid Summer

Friday, May 18, 2007

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Spiderman 3 broke records at the box office, but it was widely panned by the critics. Does it matter what the reviewers say any more? We’ll ask the question as we look at the movies worth watching this summer and take listener recommendations. Plus, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata challenges the conventional wisdom about weight loss. And the latest in our series, Anything But the Car: Where are our Jetpacks?

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Gina Kolata: Thinking Through Thick and Thin

Gina Kolata, science writer for the New York Times and author, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), challenges the conventional wisdom about weight loss, including research that shows weight is more a matter of genetics than willpower. ...

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Celluloid Summer

Owen Gleiberman, film critic at Entertainment Weekly, and Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate, size up the summer movie season and respond to listener recommendations.

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Anything but the Car: Jetpacks

Dr. Daniel H. Wilson, contributing editor for Popular Mechanics, and author, Where's My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (Bloomsbury, 2007), discusses commuting by jetpack and other modes of advanced transport.

Where's My Jetpack? is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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