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The Internet erupted this week in protest over the outrageous behavior of theater audiences and their mobile devices.

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'Who Does That?!' Broadway Stars React To Badly Behaved Audiences

7:53am July 13, 2015

by Jeff Lunden

The Internet erupted this week in protest over the outrageous behavior of New York theater audiences and their mobile devices. Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone is taking matters into her own hands.

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In Palestine, A Child Of Violence Becomes A Music Educator

8:29am July 12, 2015

by NPR Staff

Children of the Stone tells the story of a rock-throwing Palestinian teen's journey to found a music school. NPR's Lynn Neary speaks with Ramzi Aburedwan and author Sandy Tolan.

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One of screenwriter Nicole Perlman's next projects is a comic based on Gamora, the green-skinned killer played by Zoe Saldana in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy.

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She Was Groot: After A Galactic Hit, Marvel Screenwriter Tackles Comics

8:29am July 12, 2015

by Petra Mayer

Nicole Perlman was the first woman to get a writing credit on a Marvel Studios movie, last year's Guardians of the Galaxy. Now, she's taking on a more earthly challenge: Writing her first comic book.

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A Puzzle With A Northern Focus, Eh?

8:29am July 12, 2015

by Will Shortz

Today's puzzle involves wordplay on some well-known Canadian place names.

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Patricia Marx is also the author of two novels, Starting from Happy and Him Her Him Again the End of Him.

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Fearing Her Mind's Decline, Patricia Marx Scrambles To Get 'Less Stupid'

9:35pm July 11, 2015

by NPR Staff

The first woman to write for The Harvard Lampoon, now a New Yorker staffer, Marx still felt like she was getting forgetful with age. So, she put her head to work, doing every brain game she could.

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Fresh Air Weekend: Weighing In On What It Means To 'Sound Gay'

12:56pm July 11, 2015

In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe discusses the so-called "gay voice" and reveals his own attempt (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay." Originally broadcast July 7, 2015.

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Amy Winehouse performs at London's Music of Black Origin Awards in 2007.

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Fresh Air Weekend: Freeing Amy Winehouse From Her Tabloid Legacy

12:56pm July 11, 2015

In the dawning of the digital age, "She was the unlucky one to be having a nervous breakdown in public at the time," Amy director Asif Kapadia tells Fresh Air. Originally broadcast July 8, 2015.

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Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who appeared on TV's

Roger Rees, Welsh-Born Stage, Screen And TV Actor, Dies At 71

12:18pm July 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

American audiences came to know him as the star of the adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway. He won a Tony Award in the title role.

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Not My Job: Terry Gross Gets Quizzed On Terry Gene Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan)

11:25am July 11, 2015

We recorded the show in Philadelphia this week, which means that (for once!) we get to ask Fresh Air's Terry Gross the questions.

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Why 'Self/less' Needs A Better Past To Build A Better Future

11:03am July 11, 2015

by Tasha Robinson

Some science-fiction films like Mad Max: Fury Road and Ex Machina get away with giving characters very little history. But a body-jumping transformation story doesn't have that luxury.