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Getting to know Bollywood, one meal at a time

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Nov 21, 2017
Sri Rao is one of the few Americans who's worked in the Indian movie industry. His new book is part film guide, part cookbook.
Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan performs on stage during the 18th International Indian Film Academy Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in July.
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The story of Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood beauty whose invention helped enable Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth

by David Brancaccio and Paulina Velasco
Nov 21, 2017
A new documentary about the Golden Age of Hollywood actress turns the spotlight on her brilliant mind.
Inventor and actress Hedy Lamarr in"Dishonored Lady."
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Former Obama official makes bid for Weinstein Co.

by Jed Kim
Nov 20, 2017
Maria Contreras-Sweet once headed the Small Business Administration.
Maria Contreras-Sweet at her ceremony to be sworn in as head of the Small Business Administration.
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For producer DeVon Franklin, Christian films merge his passion and his faith

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Nov 16, 2017
DeVon Franklin didn't come to Hollywood over 20 years ago to make Christian films. But that's the genre where he made his name.
DeVon Franklin speaks during the MegaFest Leading Men In Hollywood Panel at the Omni Hotel on June 29, 2017 in Dallas, Texas.
Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images for MegaFest 2017
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Hollywood is dealing with a history of sexual harassment

by Kai Ryssdal and Emily Henderson
Oct 24, 2017
Janice Min, part owner and former editor of The Hollywood reporter, discusses the industry in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations.
Janice Min says the Hollywood Reporter went after the story of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, but “nobody would go on the record.”
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Koch brothers are silent investors in "Wonder Woman"

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Aug 10, 2017
One hears a lot that in its politics, Hollywood tends toward the liberal. The Kansas-based Koch brothers (whose company is an on-again, off-again underwriter of this program) tend toward conservative politics. And one would imagine that the twain would never meet. But movies are expensive to make, so producers need money. And movies can be profitable, and […]
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How did summer get to be such a make-or-break season for Hollywood?

by Ashley Milne-Tyte
Jul 21, 2017
Duuun dun ... duuun dun ... dun dun dun dun dun ...
A poster advertising the anniversary collector's edition of the movie "Jaws" is posted on a lifeguard tower on Zuma Beach in Malibu, California, in 2000. 
Photo by Dan Callister/Newsmakers
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Can the Hollywood baseball movie make a comeback?

by Adriene Hill and Robert Garrova
Jul 19, 2017
The strike and steroids " purged a lot of the sentimentality" from the game, says Jay Caspian Kang of the New York Times.
Kevin Costner and Ray Liotta in "Field of Dreams."
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A retail story: How LA's Robertson Boulevard went from paparazzi heaven to vacant stores

by Aaron Schrank
Jul 6, 2017
Once a hip indie enclave, the street went upmarket when high-end chains moved in. Then they left.
Several empty storefronts along the once-happening Robertson Boulevard shopping district in Los Angeles.
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Same old action movies and sequels at the box office this summer

by Kai Ryssdal
May 19, 2017
We're in 'tent pole city now' says New York Times culture critic Wesley Morris.
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is one of the season's tent pole productions.
Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios
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