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Trump To Retain Credit As Executive Producer Of 'Celebrity Apprentice'

6:33pm December 09, 2016

by Eric Deggans

President-elect Donald Trump will retain a credit as executive producer of the reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice. The new season, with new "boss" Arnold Schwarzenegger, premieres January 2. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says no one but Trump knows how involved he will be, but the news seems to contradict NBC's past assertion that it has severed business ties with Trump.

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Louis Hofmann (left) and Roland Møller (right) in Land of Mine.

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'Land Of Mine': Explosively Understated

5:00pm December 09, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Denmark's Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film is Land of Mine, a movie about German boys disarming landmines left behind after World War II.

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Remembering Grant Tinker, 'Mary Tyler Moore' Producer And NBC Chair

1:48pm December 09, 2016

David Bianculli offers an appreciation of Tinker, who died last month. Also, we listen to a Fresh Air interview with Tinker from 1994, and an interview with Tinker's wife, Mary Tyler Moore, from 1995.

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Fantastically Stylized 'La La Land' Is A Musical Tour-De-Force

1:39pm December 09, 2016

by David Edelstein

A jazz keyboardist and an aspiring actress fall in love in Damien Chazelle's new romantic musical. Critic David Edelstein says La La Land features thrilling chemistry and magical music numbers.

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Pablo Hidalgo and Ophira Eisenberg at NPR's New York bureau.

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Pablo Hidalgo: Red Five Standing By

11:38am December 09, 2016

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The 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On

10:49am December 09, 2016

by Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says that if there's one word that characterizes her list this year, it's "serious." These books certainly aren't grim or dull, but they take on big, difficult subjects.

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Stump Jonathan Coulton

10:47am December 09, 2016

In this round of Stump Jonathan Coulton, it's the year 1004 and a relatively new hand-held object has just been derided by clergy as being "sinfully decadent."

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