Episode #1349

Paul Rudd’s Marriage & FDR’s Affair

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Friday, December 07, 2012

Paul Rudd and Kate Arrington in Grace Paul Rudd and Kate Arrington in Grace (Joan Marcus)

Kurt Andersen talks with Paul Rudd, king of the bromance. In the new play Grace, he tries to shed his lovable screen persona in the role of an evangelical Christian motel owner. In a new movie about FDR, the fate of Europe is decided over a hot dog. And at Art Basel Miami Beach, an exhibition makes high art of the supremely annoying GIF.

Michigan Film Industry Goes Dark

The new movie Oz: The Great and Powerful comes out next spring. But like Dorothy said, they're not in Kansas anymore; this Oz was shot in Michigan. Oz was the high-water mark of an ambitious program to convert some of the state's abandoned auto plants to film studios ...

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'Tis the Season for GIF-ing

Art Basel Miami Beach, the country’s buzziest art fair, is in full swing. Dozens of satellite events and temporary galleries have popped up during the fair, including “Moving the Still,” an exhibition made up entirely of GIFs, are tiny animations made from looping together ...

See GIFs featured in "Moving the Still"

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Charmingly Awkward Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd returns to the role of awkward father and husband later this month in Judd Apatow’s This is 40, a quasi-sequel to Knocked Up, but he’s taking on a less familiar character on Broadway now. In Grace, Rudd plays an evangelical businessman who wants to start a chain ...

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FDR’s Secret Love Life

In the summer of 1939, Europe was months away from war and England was desperate for American support. Franklin Roosevelt invited the King and Queen to spend the weekend at his country house in upstate New York. The new movie Hyde Park on Hudson tells the story ...

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Aha Moment: Jon Ronson on Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is a serious writer who holds a special place in the hearts of teenagers. Jon Ronson got hooked on Vonnegut when he was 15. For his long train rides from Cardiff, Wales, to look at colleges, Ronson packed a bag with Vonnegut’s novels, including Slaughterhouse Five ...

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Andy Moody from Madison NJ

Filming in our neighborhood: The filmed part of a Friday Night Lights on my street in Madison NJ one summer a few years ago. I was about to mow my lawn, so I asked if it would bother them. The initial response was kind of "whatever". Later, when I actually started the mower, someone came running over and asked me to stop. I obliged and I didn't actually disrupt them and they said I could start up again except that they gave me a minder to signal me to stop if they started shooting. About 20 minutes into mowing they had me stop for about 10 minutes during which I had a pleasant conversation with my minder and then finished the mowing.

Dec. 11 2012 09:36 PM
David from Studio 360

Mettie, sorry you had trouble finding them. You can grab this link and paste it into your browser:

http://www.studio360.org/crowdsourcing/listener-challenge-photo-remix/listener-challenge-photo-remix-results/

Hope you enjoy.

Dec. 08 2012 12:44 PM
mettie fisher

I having difficulty finding the 600 composit photographs you said were on studio 360's site this morning. Need your advise. thanks. Mettie

Dec. 08 2012 10:05 AM

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