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Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

Moni Yakim teaches a movement class at Juilliard in May 2019. Claudio Papapietro hide caption

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Performing Arts

Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

The movement coach has taught at Juilliard for 50 years. Stars of stage and screen credit him with helping them create physically demanding roles by manipulating their bodies.

Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

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Inside 'Uncut Gems': A Cosmic Score In A Frantic Film

Adam Sandler plays jeweler Howard Ratner in the film Uncut Gems. The score is as shiny and cosmic as Ratner's life is messy and frantic. Julieta Cervantes/Courtesy of A24 hide caption

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Music Interviews

Inside 'Uncut Gems': A Cosmic Score In A Frantic Film

Uncut Gems hurtles along with Howard Ratner's compulsion to gamble, bet his winnings instead of paying off debts and chase down the next high. A lot of the score is, counterintuitively, New Age.

Inside 'Uncut Gems': A Cosmic Score In A Frantic Film

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Friday

The Movies Of The Safdie Brothers, Makers Of 'Uncut Gems'

Benny (left) and Josh Safdie stand with Adam Sandler while filming Uncut Gems. Julieta Cervantes/A24 hide caption

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The Movies Of The Safdie Brothers, Makers Of 'Uncut Gems'

Independent filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie have been trying to make their thriller, starring Adam Sandler as a New York jeweler, for nearly a decade. Here's what they've made leading up to it.

The Movies Of The Safdie Brothers, Makers Of 'Uncut Gems'

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'Little Women' Is A Dynamic Sister Act

Laurie (Timothée Chalamet) and Amy (Florence Pugh) in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women. Wilson Webb/Columbia Pictures hide caption

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Pop Culture Happy Hour

'Little Women' Is A Dynamic Sister Act

Greta Gerwig was nominated for an Oscar for directing 2017's Lady Bird. She's following it up with an adaptation of Little Women that features two of her Lady Bird stars, Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet. Ronan plays Jo, the free-spirited March sister. She's joined by Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep. Gerwig also wrote the script, which makes some changes to the story and the structure of Louisa May Alcott's book.

'Little Women' Is A Dynamic Sister Act

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Thursday

Movie Interviews

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Meryl Streep

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Terry Gross spoke to the three-time Oscar winner in 2012 and again in 2016.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Meryl Streep

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'Fresh Air' Favorites: Carrie Fisher

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Terry Gross spoke to the Star Wars star in November 2016, just a month before Fisher's death.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Carrie Fisher

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Wednesday

Which March Sister Are You? The Latest 'Little Women' Makes It Hard To Decide

Amy has long been vilified for burning one of Jo's manuscripts. But Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women takes a more nuanced look at the youngest March sister, played here by Florence Pugh. Wilson Webb/CTMG/Columbia Pictures hide caption

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Which March Sister Are You? The Latest 'Little Women' Makes It Hard To Decide

Producer Amy Pascal says Greta Gerwig's new film adaptation does "a beautiful job of making all of these girls as complicated as Louisa May Alcott wanted them to be."

Which March Sister Are You? The Latest 'Little Women' Makes It Hard To Decide

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'Cats' Is The Dirty Litter Box Of The Soul

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'Cats' Is The Dirty Litter Box Of The Soul

What has ears, tails, Andrew Lloyd Webber music, and the Idris Elba/Taylor Swift duet you've been waiting for all your life? That's right, it's Cats, the new film adaptation of the musical that became a surprise smash in the 1980's. The movie directed by Tom Hooper, who also made the Les Miserables adaptation that won Anne Hathaway an Oscar. Cats wrestles with how to present a variety of cat characters, dance numbers, and even a drug-induced catnap.

'Cats' Is The Dirty Litter Box Of The Soul

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Tuesday

Pop Culture

Highly Specific Superlatives: TV And Movies From 2019

NPR's All Things Considered best of 2019 lists are going highly specific this year. Up first: highly specific superlatives from TV and movies.

Highly Specific Superlatives: TV And Movies From 2019

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