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Monkey See
12:27 pm
Mon August 13, 2012

'Stars Earn Stripes': It's Offensive, But At Least It's Boring

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Terry Crews is one of eight celebrities supposedly getting a taste of military life in Stars Earn Stripes.
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The fact that NBC's new reality show Stars Earn Stripes is kind of an offensive concept should not distract you from the fact that it's stultifyingly boring as television and badly designed as a reality-competition show.

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Remembrances
11:56 am
Mon August 13, 2012

Al Freeman Jr. Remembered For Soaps To Spike Lee

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JACKI LYDEN, HOST:

Now, from Olympic legacies to Hollywood legacies, we want to take a moment to pay tribute to a pioneer actor and director, Al Freeman, Jr. Freeman is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Nation of Islam leader, Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's 1992 epic film "Malcolm X." Freeman's performance won him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture.

(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "MALCOLM X")

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Television
11:56 am
Mon August 13, 2012

Hardcore Job Program Helps Unlikely 'Get To Work'

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JACKI LYDEN, HOST:

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, we get the cross-cultural flavor of New Orleans music with writer and radio host, Gwen Thompkins. She talks to songwriters, musicians and producers in Louisiana for her program, Music Inside Out, and she shares their stories with us in just a few more minutes.

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My Guilty Pleasure
7:03 am
Mon August 13, 2012

You'd Have To Be Psycho To Not Pass This 'Test'

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Carol Rifka Brunt is author of Tell the Wolves I'm Home. Her work has appeared in several literary journals, including North American Review and The Sun.
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Carol Rifka Brunt is author of Tell the Wolves I'm Home.

There's this moment in Jon Ronson's book The Psychopath Test that caught me completely off guard. It comes a little less than halfway through, shortly after he's outlined the 20-point psychopath checklist. I'd read through the list and although most didn't really apply to me there were a handful that gave me pause: "Item 3: ... proneness to boredom," "Item 13: Lack of realistic long-term goals," "Item 15: Irresponsibility."

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Crime In The City
3:28 am
Mon August 13, 2012

Sleuthing Through The Shadows In Sunny Honolulu

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For author Victoria Kneubuhl, the lost world of old Hawaii casts a long shadow. But through her writing, she says, readers can see that world again.
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Kneubuhl at the famous Oahu Public Market.
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Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 4:23 am

Honolulu, on the lush, green island of Oahu, is paradise for surfers and sunbathers — but author Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl sets her mysteries in a darker, more sinister version of the tourist mecca.

"I think that juxtaposition between things that are horrible and terrible happening in a beautiful setting adds a lot of tension and depth to things," she tells NPR's Renee Montagne.

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