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We look ahead to Sunday night’s Academy Awards and talk about all the buzz over the nominees.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with MPR listener John Barnicle of Eagan, Minn., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

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Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.

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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Roy Wood, Jr. and panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

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There’s a long history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

NPR’s Scott Simon talks to comedian Andy Huggins about aging, his long career in stand-up comedy and his first full-length special, which he taped at age 73.

This week, special guest Roy Wood Jr. joins panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has a new period drama, set in 1880s London and featuring a cast of tough, yet vulnerable characters trying to outwit and outlast competing criminal elements.

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Hackman epitomized a 1970s, edgy, tightly wound masculinity. He appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, and won Oscars for his performances in The French Connection and Unforgiven.

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