Name: NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Podcast 02-08-2014 by Jodi Cheyenne York in Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me
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This week on "A Way with Words": You walk into a used bookstore, or pull down an old volume at the library, and there it is: The smell of old books. If you detect notes of vanilla in that intoxicating scent, there's a reason. Also, why some people think the word awesome is overused, why comic sans serif is a font almost universally reviled, and the origin of the phrase around Robin Hood's barn. Plus, chuck it vs. chunk it, sharing out, the dummy it, intellectual jokes, and the answers some parents give when a kid asks one too many questions. As in, "Daddy, what's that?" "Why, it's a wiggly-woggler for grinding smoke!"

The Old-Book Smell (full episode)

Our guest Nick Lowe performs "Christmas at the Airport," from his new holiday album, Quality Street. You can listen to our full interview with Nick Lowe here: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/07/249242673/not-my-job-nick-lowe-gets-quizzed-on-peace-love-and-understanding

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Our guest Nick Lowe performs an acoustic version of the classic "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding." You can listen to our full interview with Nick Lowe here: www.npr.org/2013/12/07/24924267…e-and-understanding

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NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Podcast 02-08-2014

In the first episode of You Must Remember This, a new podcast devoted to the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, Karina Longworth and guest Farran Nehme (author of the Self-Styled Siren blog) work back from Kim Novak's appearance at the 2014 Academy Awards to trace the ways in which Novak has always been an outlier amongst Hollywood beauties. Briefly the biggest star in Hollywood, Novak's career has always been defined by the tension between her well-crafted image, and her resistance to being crafted into something she was not. 

**Show Notes**

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Let’s Talk About Kim Novak” Farran Nehme, Selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2014/03/lets-talk-about-kim-novak.html
“Kim Novak Returning to SF To Share Her Art” 
http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Kim-Novak-returning-to-S-F-to-share-her-art-3625341.php
“Bell, Book and Scandal: Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.” from The Bad and the Beautiful by Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair
Kim Novak: Reluctant Goddess by Peter Harry Brown
Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler
Spellbound by Beauty: Hitchcock and His Women by Donald Spoto

AUDIO SOURCES:

Hitchcock and Truffaut (and translator!) audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2s9uSXWKM
Vertigo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY
Novak speaking to British Film Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Im8wCTSCw4
Picnic:
The Legend of Lylah Clare directed by Robert Aldrich
Picnic directed by Joshua Logan
Yahoo! UK report on the Oscars: https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/oscars-2014--kim-novak-slated-on-twitter-after-rare-appearance-034850030.html

Songs:
“Perfect Neglect in a Field of Statues” by Eluvium
“Mademoiselle Mabry” by Miles Davis
“Life Round Here” by James Blake

You Must Remember This: The Hard Hollywood Life Of Kim Novak

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