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Robert Lipsyte has spent the past six decades as a print, radio, TV and online journalist. His first big assignment was the boxing championship match between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Lipsyte about his career as a sports columnist and his upcoming memoir, An Accidental Sportswriter.

Host Liane Hansen discusses with NPR's Cokie Roberts the career of Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to be nominated for vice president in the U.S.

Ferraro died on Saturday at age 75. Roberts remembers the atmosphere the 1984 Democratic convention when Walter Mondale named Ferraro as his running mate.

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In Grammy-award winning parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic's new children's book, When I Grow Up, Billy tells his teacher he wants to be a gorilla masseuse.

When Yankovic himself was growing up, he wanted to be a writer for Mad magazine, he tells Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

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Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Great Britain's leading actors with decades of work on stage and in television and film.

He can be seen in movie theaters now in The King's Speech as the archbishop of Canterbury. His latest triumph is his award-winning role as King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jacobi about his illustrious career.

Eleanor Brown speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about her new novel, The Weird Sisters, which imagines the lives of three sisters and their obsessive Shakespearean scholar father who prefers iambic pentameter to normal, everyday conversation.

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We find out Tuesday whether or not Oscar will friend The Social Network, if The Fighter could be a contender and if Toy Story 3 will prove more than child's play.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris about the upcoming Oscar nominations.

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Sept. 11 first responder Glen Klein was with the emergency services unit of the New York Police Department when the World Trade Center was attacked.

He tells NPR's Liane Hansen about the various problems he has suffered in the years since the attack, including a diagnosis of scarring on his lungs.

Klein says the Senate's vote last week on the Sept. 11 Responders Bill while not all the money hoped for, is at least a five-year guarantee of funding for treatment of first responders.

Ten years ago Sunday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions. The high court's ruling ended the recount, put George W.

Bush in the White House and began a debate over separation of powers that continues to this day. Host Liane Hansen speaks to legal affairs writer Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker about how the case changed the political landscape.

Iran claimed another advance in its disputed nuclear activities on Sunday, a day before opening a new round of talks on that work with world powers.

Host Liane Hansen gets a preview of the talks from NPR's Peter Kenyon.

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Known for a groundbreaking TV comedy and a string of hilarious films, Judd Apatow has edited a new collection of humor writing, Things I Found Funny.

He joins NPR's Liane Hansen to talk about what makes for good comedy -- and just plain good writing.

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