4/5/2013 10:18 AM
| Dan Bobkoff
| NPR
|
How did Dennis Rodman end up having dinner with Kim Jong Un in North Korea? It was the idea of Vice Media, which has grown from a counterculture magazine into a full-fledged youth media conglomerate.
Friday night, it premieres a documentary series on HBO, a kind of coming-out moment into the mainstream.
4/4/2013 3:04 PM
| Cheryl Corley
| NPR
|
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing, but just as influential as his print essays were his "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" movie reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert died Thursday after struggling for years with cancer. He was 70 years old.
4/3/2013 1:36 PM
| Mark Memmott
| NPR
|
Here's the official word, courtesy of NBC News' tweets:
— "JUST IN: Jay Leno will depart NBC's 'Tonight Show' in Spring 2014; Jimmy Fallon to replace, NBC says."
— "MORE: 'Tonight Show' will return to New York City in 2014; Lorne Michaels will be executive producer."
4/3/2013 12:51 PM
| Margot Adler
| NPR
|
Try to put him in a box and he'll find his way out. Still working at nearly 85 years old, William Klein has gone rogue in at least four different fields: abstract painting, photography, filmmaking and commercial copy writing.