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  • Singer, songwriter and guitarist Charlie Sexton burst out of Texas in 1985 with the hit, "Beat's so Lonely." He spent the next two decades working with veteran musicians such as the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and Ron Wood and Bob Dylan. Sexton's latest CD is titled "Cruel and Gentle Things."
  • The Academic Film Archive is working with the Library of Congress to make a worldwide database of all the old educational movies it can find. And in St. Louis, in an effort to preserve these classic 16-mm movies, a group is holding monthly screenings of films like The Living Soil, which was produced by Shell Oil Company in the 1960s to extol the virtues of pesticides. Matt Sepic of member station KWMU reports.
  • Two young figure skaters make history for their gravity-defying jumps and record-breaking scores.
  • Langston Hughes is best known for writing powerful poetry and prose, but he was also a librettist.
  • A Canadian judge granted a temporary injunction to ban protesters from blowing horns in downtown Ottawa for 10 days.
  • The documentary follows three African-American students who get the opportunity to attend an academically rigorous school in Kenya designed to give them a path out of the violence and poverty of inner-city Baltimore.
  • New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters says the religious right and social conservatives "got basically everything that they wanted" from Trump's presidency. Peters' new book is Insurgency.
  • Joan Graves, MPAA board chair is the only member of the board that the MPAA does not keep anonymous. Graves responds to some of the contentions in Kirby Dick's documentary, This Film is Not Yet Rated.
  • A simple farmer turned general, then dictator of Rome, Cincinnatus was revered for his humility. As legend has it, he gave up all that power to return home. Classics scholar Elaine Fantham discusses the Roman hero with Scott Simon.
  • She won an Oscar for her editing work on Raging Bull and Thelma Schoonmaker has edited each of Martin Scorsese's movies since. She also won the Oscar for The Aviator and was nominated for Gangs of New York and Goodfellas.. She talks about how film editing has changed over the past 30 years. This interview was originally broadcast May 31, 2005.
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