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  • Much ink has been spilled about media mogul Rupert Murdoch's family, but Atlantic reporter McKay Coppins got the chance to get the stories from the inside. In light of a recent ruling that put an end to the battle for succession, we checked in with Coppins to see what it means for the family — and for their media empire.
  • In a recent press conference, Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned of political violence metastasizing in this country. The journalist McKay Coppins described it as a kind of sermon.
  • On Tuesday, Robert Redford passed away in Sundance, Utah, a place he loved because it gave him a sense of peace and a respite from Hollywood. As he put it, “Other people have analysis. I have Utah.”
  • David Archuleta became famous at 17 years old, when he was a finalist on “American Idol.” He joins us to talk about his new memoir, coming out as gay and about leaving the LDS Church.
  • Jack Kerouac published “On the Road” in 1957, and it became the defining novel of the Beat Generation. Today, a new documentary explores the book’s legacy.
  • What happens when a progressive Hollywood filmmaker and a conservative congressman team up to document one of the most volatile chapters in American politics? We’re talking with Steve Pink — director of “Hot Tub Time Machine” — and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger about their unlikely collaboration and the film that emerged.
  • In 1980, Jane Fonda and her producing partner Bruce Gilbert, took a serious issue — women in the workforce not receiving equal pay — and made it into the accessible and smash-hit comedy “9 to 5.” Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton, it became a pop culture hit.
  • The INN Between is the only end-of-life and recuperative care facility of its kind in the U.S. And it’s housed in a quiet neighborhood in Sugarhouse.
  • When the Maysels brothers showed up in 1972 to shoot a documentary film at the dilapidated estate of Grey Gardens in the East Hamptons, they didn't quite know what they were getting into, or what kind of movie they would end up with.
  • When it was released in 1999, "Fight Club", an anti-capitalist, borderline-nihilistic exploration of American male ennui, landed with a flop in U.S. theaters. The controversial film has since risen as a cult classic, and it might be even more relevant today.
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