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  • The Air Force failed to put the shooter's name on a database that could have prevented him from legally buying guns. He killed 26 people and injured 22 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017.
  • Actor/director Peter Berg's most recent project is The Kingdom, a police procedural set in Saudi Arabia. Berg talks about the film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.
  • Three brothers, privileged but bereft, go looking for themselves on a trek through rural India. Fresh Air's film critic says Anderson manages to sustain a sense of lyric melancholy — though he could use more perspective on his characters' over-entitlement.
  • The antiviral infusion was just revived as an early treatment for COVID patients. But the drug is relatively expensive and hard to administer, relegating it to what some are calling "stopgap" status.
  • Rita Moreno's acting career spans more than five decades and is decorated with the business' highest honors: the Tony, an Oscar, a Grammy and two Emmy awards. Many remember her work in the hit production West Side Story. Moreno talks about her mother's influence, her fear of being type cast and her role in Cane.
  • Snacking on water beetles in Laos, dining on dog in Korea: Tom Parker Bowles, food writer for Britain's The Mail on Sunday, Night and Day, and Tatler (and son of Prince Charles' wife, Camilla Parker Bowles), has written what he's described as "a travel book about weird food."
  • The Darjeeling Limited, director Wes Anderson's newest film, opened the New York Film Festival this weekend. Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the screenplay and plays Jack Whitman, talks about the role India plays in the movie.
  • On the second anniversary of the playwright's death, Michele Norris talks to two actors from the Broadway production of his final play, Radio Golf.
  • African-American playwright Lynne Nottage is the author of several works, including Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Nottage has just been named a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award. The Brooklyn-based artist talks about her work and what the award means for her future in the performing arts.
  • September 11, AIDS, the Holocaust — the comic and actress Sarah Silverman has repeatedly proved that practically nothing need be off limits in a joke. Take the title of her Off-Broadway show, which later became a film: Jesus Is Magic.
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