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How a teacher's feedback changed things for a stuttering student

5:14pm April 17, 2023

Susan Greenstein Prescott's unsung hero is her 12th grade English teacher, Fred DeMayo. He assigned everyone a poem to recite aloud — but she had a stutter. His feedback empowered her life forever.

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Keri Russell plays a career foreign service officer in The Diplomat.

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After 'Felicity' and a stint as a spy, Keri Russell embraces her new 'Diplomat' role

4:53pm April 17, 2023

by Sam Briger

Russell played a fictional Soviet spy in The Americans. Now she stars as a career foreign service officer who reluctantly becomes the U.S. ambassador in London in the Netflix series The Diplomat.

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In 1984, the IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, England, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The bomb detonated on Oct. 12, 1984 — the aftermath is shown above.

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In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a new book asks, what if?

4:53pm April 17, 2023

by Maureen Corrigan

The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by journalist Rory Carroll, reads like a political thriller.

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Netflix delayed the live reunion of 'Love is Blind,' but didn't say why

11:37am April 17, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The Season 4 reunion of the hit reality show was supposed to premiere live at 8 p.m. ET, but it wasn't until about 9:30 p.m. that Netflix said it was having difficulties.

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Clouds remind me that magical things in life can come out of nowhere

6:01am April 17, 2023

by Tamar Charney

Much like clouds, we are all shifting and changing, solid one moment only to dissolve in the next. And who knows what form our lives will take next?

Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) finds himself in a jam as a long day of being "sick with grief" gets underway.

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'Succession' Season 4, Episode 4: 'Honeymoon States'

10:03pm April 16, 2023

by Linda Holmes

The fallout from last week's earth-shaking episode begins, as Logan Roy's friends and relations (and lackeys) gather at his home.

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Streaming changed the Hollywood landscape. Now its writers are voting to go on strike

1:27pm April 16, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

As members of the Writers Guild of America wrap up voting on whether to authorize a strike, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to two writers about the changing content landscape in Hollywood.

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Lady Gaga performs during President Biden's inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. She'll co-chair Biden's arts advisory committee.

Biden taps Lady Gaga to co-chair an arts advisory committee that dissolved under Trump

5:15pm April 15, 2023

by Kaitlyn Radde

The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will advise the president on cultural policy, and members were chosen due to their "serious commitment to the arts and humanities."

John Riddle as Raoul (left), Ben Crawford as The Phantom and Emilie Kouatchou as Christine at Broadway's 34th anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera. The last performance of the long-running hit musical will be on Sunday, April 16.

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'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

10:55am April 15, 2023

by Jeff Lunden

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.

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'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

9:07am April 15, 2023

by Jeff Lunden

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.

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