Elizabeth Blair

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Elizabeth Peña Remembered As An Actress With Range

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Peña's fans, lamenting her death on Latino social media, expressed frustration that such a talented actress could not break away from stereotypical roles.

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Lessons From Ebola School: How To Draw Blood, Wipe Up Vomit

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Think of the routine jobs health workers do in a hospital: Sticking a needle in a patient's arm. Cleaning up vomit. Escorting a patient to a bed. Now imagine doing those tasks for someone with Ebola.

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From VMI To James Island, Hollywood Battles To Get The Civil War Right

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Movies about the Civil War are almost always problematic. They're long and boring, or they're slanted, or they leave out a huge part of the story. A new movie about the Battle of New Market in 1864 has its own set of problems.

Field of Lost Shoes begins with ...

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Play, Ball: A Theatrical Look At The 'Beauty And Brutality' Of Football

Thursday, October 09, 2014

In the new play Colossal, a former football player, paralyzed after taking a bad hit during a game, reflects on his glory days and his struggles as a gay man in the macho culture of football.

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Tony Award Winner Geoffrey Holder Dies At 84

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

A legend of the dance world has died. The multi-talented Geoffrey Holder was also an actor and a visual artist. He died Sunday of complications from pneumonia. He was 84.

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'Art & Craft' Explores How One Forger Duped More Than 45 Museums

Saturday, September 27, 2014

For nearly 30 years, art forger Mark Landis duped dozens of museums into accepting fakes into their collections. His stunts made headlines around the world. But Mark Landis never asked for money so he never went to jail. Now his paintings and drawings are in a touring exhibition called ...

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The Fine Art Of Pricing Detroit's Collection

Thursday, September 04, 2014

With Detroit's bankruptcy trial underway, one point of contention is likely to be the value of the city's art collection. The art market can be unpredictable, and disagreements betwee...

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Response In Ukraine Could Prove A Crucible For NATO's Future

Thursday, September 04, 2014

To learn more about the NATO summit in Wales this week, Melissa Block speaks with Admiral James Stavridis, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and former supreme allied commander at NATO.

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As Museums Try To Make Ends Meet, 'Deaccession' Is The Art World's Dirty Word

Monday, August 11, 2014

Deaccessioning is the permanent removal of an object from a museum's collection. And there are a lot of rules surrounding it — for one, selling art to pay off debt will get you in big trouble.

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From 'Good Times' To 'Honey Boo Boo': Who Is Poor On TV?

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

What do sitcoms, dramas and reality TV say about poor people? For our yearlong series exploring poverty, NPR's Elizabeth Blair takes a look at the television shows that place the poor center stage.

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With Humor, 'Dead And Breathing' Dives Into End-Of-Life Struggles

Saturday, July 19, 2014

The play Dead and Breathing begins boldly. Sixty-eight-year-old Carolyn takes off her towel and steps into a bathtub completely naked. She's bathed by her chatty nurse, Veronika.

The wealthy, cantankerous woman is dying of cancer. Carolyn, played by Lizan Mitchell, wants to die sooner rather than later, and tries to ...

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Actress Elaine Stritch, 'Her Own Greatest Character,' Dies At 89

Thursday, July 17, 2014

In a career that stretched back to the '40s, Stritch did it all: theater, TV, movies. Candid about just about everything, she said she didn't mind the word aging — after all "it applies to everyone."

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In 'Little Engine That Could,' Some See An Early Feminist Hero

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Was "I think I can" the grandmother of "lean in?" Some readers see the plucky locomotive as a parable about working women, but in some versions of the story the protagonist was male.

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Think Before You Clap: You Could Be Beat Deaf

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Some people just can't keep a beat. A Montreal neuroscientist describes the problem as a "musical brain disorder" rather than a mere problem of coordination.

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AP: Parts Of Irish 'Mass Graves' Story Exaggerated By Media

Monday, June 23, 2014

The Associated Press today offers "a more sober picture" than it and other news organizations (including NPR) did earlier this month regarding reports of nearly 800 bodies of infants and young children at a former Catholic home for unwed mothers in Ireland.

The case of the "mother and ...

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In 'Fever,' Town's Teen Tic Epidemic Gets A Chilling Novelization

Friday, June 20, 2014

Megan Abbott was riveted by stories of a bizarre illness that seemed to consume the town of Le Roy, N.Y., in 2012. Her new book uses pieces of that true story to explore the mysteries of adolescence.

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The Return of 'Rectify,' A Critical Darling Sprung From Death Row

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Rectify is a dark, contemplative TV drama about a man released from prison after two decades on death row. It was also a critical favorite in its first season. For a glimpse into its ...

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'How To Train Your Dragon 2' Is More Growly And Snarly (And Wise) Than Ever

Friday, June 13, 2014

How to Train Your Dragon 2 — one of the most anticipated family movies of the summer — opens Friday. Elizabeth Blair says the animation is more detailed, the stakes higher and the lessons amplified.

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In Confronting Poverty, 'Harvest Of Shame' Reaped Praise And Criticism

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Fifty years ago this year, President Lyndon Johnson launched his war on poverty; But just a few years before that, CBS gave millions of Americans a close look at what it means to live in poverty.

In the world of journalism, CBS' Peabody Award-winning documentary Harvest of Shame is considered ...

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