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Terry Gross

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.

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Fresh Air Remembers Actress Lupe Ontiveros

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Actress Lupe Ontiveros was known for her roles in the film Selena and the television series Desperate Housewives.

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Originally published on Mon July 30, 2012 12:31 pm

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Actress Lupe Ontiveros died Thursday of cancer at the age of 69. She was most famous for her role in the 1997 film Selena, but Ontiveros also acted with Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, played a strict mother in the independent film Real Women Have Curves and had a recurring role in the television series Desperate Housewives.

3:03 am

Sat July 28, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Bishop Blair, Sister Farrell

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Sister Pat Farrell is the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the vice president of the Sisters of St. Francis in Dubuque, Iowa.

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Originally published on Sat July 28, 2012 11:43 am

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

11:12 am

Fri July 27, 2012

'Fresh Air' Bids Farewell To Melody Kramer

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Producer Melody Kramer, who developed a strong social-media presence for Fresh Air over the last several years, departs this week.

By Terry Gross

Originally published on Fri July 27, 2012 11:47 am

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Today, reluctantly, we say goodbye to someone our listeners may have come to feel attached to, even though they've never heard her voice on our show.

Until about 3 years ago, we were so obsessed with getting Fresh Air on the air every day that we were virtually ignoring all the social media possibilities, and our website was pretty bare-boned. Then we hired Melody Kramer to be our associate producer for online media.

11:06 am

Fri July 27, 2012

Two Films Shoot Past Realism To Weirder Territory

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A Dallas hard-luck case (Emile Hirsch, left) hires a corrupt cop (Matthew McConaughey) to kill his estranged mother when he hears about her rich insurance policy. Needless to say, the plot of Killer Joe doesn't quite work out as planned.

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Calvin (Paul Dano) with the woman he manifested from his typewriter, Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan). Kazan also wrote the film Ruby Sparks, which is directed by the team behind Little Miss Sunshine.

By David Edelstein

Originally published on Fri July 27, 2012 2:12 pm

Amid the slapstick comedies, sequels and superhero movies that have come to define summer moviegoing, two films opening today center on disturbed and disturbing romantic ties. Ruby Sparks and Killer Joe aren't fantasy or horror pictures, but they're within screaming distance — close enough to remind you how much deeper artists go when they barrel past realism into weirder areas of the psyche.

9:31 am

Fri July 27, 2012

In '1493,' Uncovering The World Columbus Discovered

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Charles C. Mann is a journalist and contributing editor for Atlantic Monthly and Science.

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Originally published on Fri July 27, 2012 11:47 am

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This interview was originally broadcast on August 8, 2011. 1493 is now available in paperback.

"In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," goes the old elementary school rhyme.

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Mon July 30, 2012