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Eddie Murphy Accepts Mark Twain Prize With Unexpected Bill Cosby Jokes

6:34pm October 19, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Geoff Edgers, national arts reporter for the Washington Post, who attended the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony Sunday night at the Kennedy Center.

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Andre Holland (left) and Clive Owen get serious in Episode 3 of the second season of The Knick.

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'The Knick' Returns To The Bloody Pursuit Of Knowledge

5:11pm October 19, 2015

by Michele Norris

The TV show, set in a New York City hospital in the early 1900s, depicts turn-of-the-century medicine in grisly detail. Stars Clive Owen and Andre Holland say there's no nostalgia involved.

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Piedmont Opera Presents Verdi's "Rigoletto"

9:05am October 19, 2015

by David Ford

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Welcome To Night Vale: Tales From The Cryptids

7:55am October 19, 2015

The cult podcast's creators, Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, talk about its origin and taking it to the stage. Then host Cecil Baldwin leads a game about supernatural creatures and myths.

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On Cusp Of National Honor, A Look Back At Eddie Murphy's Career In Comedy

8:17pm October 18, 2015

by Michel Martin

This weekend, the Kennedy Center will award the 18th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to actor and comedian Eddie Murphy. NPR's Michel Martin takes a look back at Murphy's long career.

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A Model In A Hijab Talks About Her Faith And Fashion

8:02pm October 18, 2015

by Renee Montagne

Fashion retailer H&M featured non-fashion types in its latest video ad, including a London woman wearing a hijab. Mariah Idrissi, 23, talks about why she chooses to wear the head scarf.

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Shall I Compare Thee To An Algorithm? Turing Test Gets A Creative Twist

7:54pm October 18, 2015

by Joe Palca

Can a computer program craft passable prose — something readers can't distinguish from human-authored stuff? How about poetry, or dance mixes? New contests pose those challenges.

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Jack Black and R.L. Stine on the set of the film adaptation of Goosebumps.

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The Deep, Dark Secret Of R.L. Stine: 'I Never Planned To Be Scary'

6:37pm October 18, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

After more than 20 years of frights, Stine's Goosebumps series is finally getting a big-screen adaptation, starring Jack Black. For Stine and Black, the key to the nightmare is in keeping things fun.

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Attack Of The Spooky Script! R.L. Stine, In Life And On The Screen

6:37pm October 18, 2015

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with R.L. Stine, author of the children's horror book series Goosebumps, about his long — and surprising — writing career, and the new film based on his books.

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The Assassin isn't just a change of form for its director, Hou Hsiao-Hsien; it also puts a twist on the classic story of the roaming swordsman — or swordswoman — in medieval China.

Renowned Director Breaks The Mold, With An 'Assassin' No One Saw Coming

1:22pm October 18, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Hou Hsiao-Hsien has built worldwide fame, but he's done so with realistic films about normal people. In The Assassin, he upends expectations (and genre conventions) with a medieval action tale.

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