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Aha Moments

Arts, Culture & Media

How "Finding Nemo" Changed My Life

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March 26, 2015

A kindergarten teacher with a comfortable job watched “Finding Nemo” on a whim. She didn’t realize how it would change her life. 

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Aha Moment: “Love and Rockets”

Studio 360

March 12, 2015

Comics and graphic novels haven’t traditionally been welcoming places for women. Jessica Abel, a graphic novelist and teacher, is working to change that. 

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Aha Moment: Sandra Bernhard on Carol Channing

Studio 360

January 22, 2015

Sandra Bernhard’s breakout role was as an obsessed fan in “The King of Comedy,” but her real-life obsession with Carol Channing changed her life.

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Aha Moment: Lee Ann Womack

Studio 360

January 15, 2015

Sometimes a song on the radio can change your life. How “I Hope You Dance” saved one woman from a very expensive mistake.

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Aha Moment: Jane Austen & Clueless

Studio 360

January 08, 2015

A TV writer learned about love — and how to write a great love story — from the novels of Jane Austen.

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Aha Moment: Bono and Belly Dancing

Studio 360

October 31, 2014

She gave up ballet, but Yillah Natalie discovered her life’s work in U2’s “Mysterious Ways”: belly dancing.

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How Devo Became Devo

Studio 360

October 24, 2014

Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale were students at Kent State in 1970, when the shootings led them to reject the counterculture they had been part of. 

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Aha Moment: Dave Alvin

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May 10, 2012

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Aha Moment: Cary Grant in “Holiday”

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October 01, 2010

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