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WWDTM: The First Quarter Century, pt. III

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Meryl Streep and the Orchid Thief

Susan Orlean is the only acclaimed writer of literary nonfiction to be portrayed on screen by a multiple Oscar winner opposite a completely insane Nicholas Cage. When Meryl Streep plays you in a movie, does she come over to your house and follow you around the kitchen to try to act like you? Well, this is terribly embarrassing, but I will tell you what happened. She really just wanted to create the character kind of on her own and didn't want to study you. So let's talk about Rin Tintin a little. There's so much in that book I did not know. He was probably the top box office earner for many years. The news interrupted broadcasting all over

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