The Great Gatsby

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Studio 360 – Episode 845 – The Great Gatsby – Segment 6

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These six films will knock your socks off in 2012

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From The Dark Knight to the Great Gatsby, 2012 is set to have some blockbusters on the big screen. You’ll want to mark these six flicks down as must-see movies.

Movie Date: ‘Peeples’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’

In this week’s Movie Date podcast, Rafer  and Kristen  discuss complicated family reunions, party crashing, and what happens when eccentric Australian directors take on American classics. It’s all in honor of two new releases: “Peeples” and “The Great Gatsby.”  

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Are you an avid rereader of books or rewatcher of movies? Or is once enough?

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The Great Gatsby

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Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We’ll drive around the tony Long […]