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The Hollywood Black List Turns Overlooked Scripts Into Oscar Movies

6:22pm January 27, 2017

The Black List is an anonymous survey of the year's best film scripts. It's generally an indicator of movies that will be critical successes. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to journalist Alex Wagner about her piece in The Atlantic on the Black List.

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U.S. Wins Bocuse D'Or Cooking Competition For The First Time

4:36pm January 27, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Mathew Peters, the head chef for the U.S. team for the prestigious Bocuse d'Or competition. They were the first Americans to win the competition in the 30-year history of the contest.

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'Commercials for Nicer Living Project' Winners Announced

4:36pm January 27, 2017

by Susan Stamberg

All Things Considered announces the winners in the revived listener contest called "Commercials for Nicer Living Project." It's a reprise of an early item on this program, in which we asked listeners to tell us some of the things that make life just a little bit better — things that money can't buy. We chose our favorites and produced them as radio commercials.

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Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, The Smart, Comic Actress Who Inspired A Generation

2:56pm January 27, 2017

Moore, who died Wed. at the age of 80, played a single professional woman on the 1970s show named after her, and became beloved for her role on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Originally broadcast in 1995.

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Bend Over Backwards

11:55am January 27, 2017

We're turning sweet endings into bitter beginnings! In this game, the comic becomes tragic when we describe movie plots in reverse.

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Lemon Tart, Smart

11:55am January 27, 2017

Contestants guess the word we have replaced with its Cockney slang equivalent, which rhymes with the word it's replacing.

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Mystery Guest

11:55am January 27, 2017

This week's Mystery Guest is Maddy Joyce, who has a hobby that has been practised for thousands of years, all over the world, but not by many women.

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Looking Up

11:55am January 27, 2017

Jonathan Coulton parodies your 28th favorite Beatles' song, "I'm Looking Through You," to be about (you guessed it) things that you can look through.

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Words In Words

11:55am January 27, 2017

Every answer is a multisyllabic word, followed by a word found inside that word.

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Zazie Beetz: Atlanta In Brooklyn

11:55am January 27, 2017

Zazie Beetz shares her theories as to why FX's Golden Globe-winning series "Atlanta" resonated with fans and critics in its first season.

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