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Comic book superheroes and a gun-toting grandma. Find out why audiences are going nuts for two very different new movies- “Watchmen” and “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.” In a new work of historical fiction, female slaves lead a rebellion on a Jamaican sugar plantation; Kurt talks with Marlon James, the author of The Book of Night Women. And discover what it takes to rescue a 450-year-old painting.
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