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Diversity Sells — But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White, Male

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Diversity Sells — But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White, Male

Women and minorities continue to be under-represented on TV and in film, both behind and in front of the camera, according to a new study — even though diverse films and shows make more money.

Diversity Sells — But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White, Male

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Film About Campus Sexual Assault Tells Survivors: 'You Are Not Alone'

When Annie Clark was assaulted in 2007 she said the response from her university was victim blaming: "I talked to one campus employee and she gave me this extended metaphor about how rape was like a football game and I was the quarterback in charge and what would I have done differently in that situation," she says. Courtesy of Radius hide caption

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Film About Campus Sexual Assault Tells Survivors: 'You Are Not Alone'

Survivors Annie Clark and Andrea Pino brought a Title IX complaint against the University of North Carolina. "This is not about UNC," Clark says. "We're not doing this to vilify our institution."

Film About Campus Sexual Assault Tells Survivors: 'You Are Not Alone'

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Tense 'Eastern Boys': Cruising, and Bruising

Eastern Boys begins as a home invasion story but evolves to something more complex, says NPR film critic Bob Mondello. Courtesy of First Run Features hide caption

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Tense 'Eastern Boys': Cruising, and Bruising

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews Eastern Boys, a French film that is half love story, half home invasion drama.

Tense 'Eastern Boys': Cruising, and Bruising

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'Maps To The Stars': Either The Funniest Horror Movie, Or The Most Horrific Comedy

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In the film about a toxic Hollywood, John Cusack plays a self-help guru whose clients include Julianne Moore. It's full of anxious shoptalk and name dropping, druggy kids and druggier grown-ups.

'Maps To The Stars': Either The Funniest Horror Movie, Or The Most Horrific Comedy

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Belfast Thriller '71' Combines Action And Emotional Authenticity

The film depicts Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1971. It was a year when the Troubles, the bitter conflict between the Catholic IRA and the Protestant Loyalists, turned violent.

Belfast Thriller '71' Combines Action And Emotional Authenticity

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The Good, The Bad And The Hot: Movies To Warm Winter's Bite

Sidney Poitier smolders — and swelters — in In the Heat of the Night. Mirisch/United Artists/Kobal Collection hide caption

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The Good, The Bad And The Hot: Movies To Warm Winter's Bite

As much of the country shivers in the grip of a nasty winter, NPR movie critic Bob Mondello ponders cinematic heat — the movies that smolder, swelter and sizzle no matter what the mercury says.

The Good, The Bad And The Hot: Movies To Warm Winter's Bite

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Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky Dies At 58

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Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky Dies At 58

Sinofsky and his longtime co-director, Joe Berlinger, are perhaps best known for Paradise Lost, a trilogy of films about three teenagers convicted of killing three little boys in West Memphis, Ark.