Elton John and his mohawk perform at Universal Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif., in 1986. Mark Terrill/AP hide caption
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Back on my beast: Eddie Redmayne returns to his old, squirrelly tricks as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Lara (Victor Polster) is impatient to become the girl she knows herself to be, in Lukas Dhont's Girl. Netflix hide caption
The Ear of Living Dangerously: Willem Dafoe is Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate. Lily Gavin/CBS Films hide caption
The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2016. It was the last time a U.S. president — Barack Obama — attended the awards ceremony. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Author Jonathan Franzen speaks at BookExpo America at the Javits Center on May 27, 2015, in New York City. Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images hide caption
Patricia Arquette plays Tilly, a woman who helped two inmates break out of prison, in the based-on-a-true-story drama Escape at Dannemora. Benicio del Toro plays escapee Richard Matt. Chris Saunders/Showtime hide caption
The True-Story, Love-Triangle, Prison-Break Drama 'Escape At Dannemora'
Viola Davis stars as Veronica, a woman who loses her husband and gains a heist gang in Widows. Merrick Morton/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption
Born to be Posthumous, by Mark Devy NPR hide caption
Insomnia, by Marina Benjamin NPR hide caption
Gert Berliner's Swedish ID card with which he eventually entered the U.S. in 1947. He lived in Berlin until he was 14 years old. Gert escaped the Nazi death camps because his parents got him on a children's transport to Sweden in 1939. Jacobia Dahm for NPR hide caption
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A new book examines billionaire filmmaker Howard Hughes and the sexual relationships he had with Hollywood actresses. He's shown above in 1947. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
'Sex, Lies And Stardom': Exploitation In Howard Hughes' Hollywood
Comic book writer Stan Lee and actor Chadwick Boseman attend the world premiere of Marvel Studios Black Panther. Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence and the Execution of Edith Thompson, by Laura Thompson NPR hide caption
Miss White Mountain Apache Queen 2018-19 Zipporah Lupe greets Miss Navajo contestands Summer Jake (left), Kayla Martinez and Autumn Montoya as they get ready for the parade at the 77th Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Ariz. on the Navajo Nation in September. Caitlin O'Hara for NPR hide caption
Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher and former President of Marvel Comics, attends the premiere of Doctor Strange in 2016. Lee died Monday at the age of 95. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Comic book legend Stan Lee poses at the opening reception for "Stan Lee: A Retrospective" presented by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Feb. 23, 2007 in New York City. Mat Szwajkos/Getty Images hide caption
Humans would do better to accept many of the life forms that share our space, than to scrub them all away, says ecologist Rob Dunn. Basic Books hide caption
Counting The Bugs And Bacteria, You're 'Never Home Alone' (And That's OK)
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"Our data suggests that something about baking seems to be changing the hands of the people who do the baking," says ecologist Rob Dunn. Rick Gayle/Getty Images hide caption
Author Kwame Alexander will create a new poem after the responses are in to this question: What about America are you thankful for? Katherine Du/NPR hide caption