Month: January 2022

It’s right up at the top of these stairs. You kind of have to go up sideways, the way skiers do when they don’t want to take their skis off.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi about his new film, A Hero. The story examines the complexity of what appears to many to be a good deed.

Scientists in London have honored Leonardo DiCaprio by naming an endangered tree after him, stating that the actor “was crucial in helping to stop the logging” of the Cameroon rainforest where it grows. What do you think?

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Keep tabs on what your exes are up to, and with whom! Preserve forever the memory of all the dumb and humiliating things you just said in that phone call!

Stating that it “takes away our humanity,” Pope Francis made comments criticizing the selfishness of couples who choose to have dogs and cats instead of children. What do you think?

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Didion, who died Dec. 23, was known her cool, unsentimental observations. Her books include Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 2005.

White’s television career spanned the history of TV itself. Best known for her roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, she died Dec. 31, at age 99. Originally broadcast in 1987.

For much of his career, the actor represented many different things to many people, but a constant was his sheer artistry.

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