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12:22 pm

Tue July 3, 2012

Three Ways Pie History Is Like HBO's Game Of Thrones

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Going medieval in the kitchen: The recipe for this sweet pork pie came from the new, official Game of Thrones cookbook.

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Just what was on the menu here? A 15th century woodcut shows nude bathers preparing to enjoy a pie.

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Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 11:21 am

Much has been written about the real-life historical people and events that inspired Game Of Thrones. Many fans of the hit HBO series and the fantasy books on which it is based know that author G.R.R.

Remembrances

11:54 am

Tue July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith: A TV Icon From 'Matlock' To Mayberry

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In the drama Matlock, Kene Holliday (top left), Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Griffith and Kari Lizer played a criminal defense team that often came out on top.

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In 2005, President George W. Bush honored Griffith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "demonstrating the finest qualities of our country."

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Griffith attends the 2003 unveiling of a bronze statue of the characters Andy and Opie from his hit TV series The Andy Griffith Show in Raleigh, N.C.

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Actor Andy Griffith was best known for his role as the gentle, small-town sheriff of Mayberry on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He died Tuesday at 86.

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Griffith on the set of the 1958 film No Time for Sergeants. Griffith starred in the live television, Broadway and film adaptations of Mac Hyman's 1954 novel.

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Griffith and Juliet Prowse pose on the set of The Second Time Around, a 1961 Western comedy starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who moves from New York to Arizona.

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Ron Howard played Griffith's son, Opie. "They always have the kids in situation comedies be brats," he said, but the Andy-Opie relationship was different.

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Don Knotts played bumbling Deputy Barney Fife to Griffith's Sheriff Andy Taylor on the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.

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Griffith's marriage to Barbara Edwards (left) ended in 1972. He married Cindi Knight in 1983, and they settled in his home state of North Carolina.

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Actor Andy Griffith died Tuesday at 86. He sits in uniform, as Sheriff Andy Taylor, on the set of his television series The Andy Griffith Show in 1967.

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Born in North Carolina, actor and comedian Andy Griffith was known for playing the wise, gentle Southern patriarch, both in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and the 1980s-'90s legal drama Matlock.

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 6:06 pm

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In a career that spanned half a century, actor and comedian Andy Griffith starred in five different television series, made more than 30 movies and even recorded a Grammy Award-winning gospel album. He died Tuesday morning in North Carolina at the age of 86.

The Two-Way

11:52 am

Tue July 3, 2012

After Apology, Pakistan Agrees To Reopen Military Supply Line, Says Clinton

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 5:03 pm

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for the "for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military" during a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops.

When announcing the apology, the AP reports, Clinton also said that Pakistan was reopening a crucial military supply line into Afghanistan. Pakistan had closed its border to the coalition forces since the attack in November.

The Two-Way

11:30 am

Tue July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith Dies, Was TV's Sheriff Taylor And Matlock

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Andy Griffith in 1960, when he started playing Sheriff Andy Taylor on TV.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 1:06 pm

Music Reviews

11:23 am

Tue July 3, 2012

The dB's: Still Plaintive After All These Years

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The dB's.

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By Ken Tucker

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 2:05 pm

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If there was any doubt that The dB's have any use for being considered through the haze of memory, or limited to the misty fondness from fans who remember them from the early 80s, the blast that opens their new album Falling Off the Sky, a song called "That Time Is Gone," could not be more explicit. Group leaders Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, along with drummer Will Rigby and bassist Gene Holder, are taking back their sound after 30 years, sprucing it up and re-exploding it for the days we live in now.

Fresh Food

11:23 am

Tue July 3, 2012

Summer Cooking Tips From 'America's Test Kitchen'

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Grilled short ribs are a delicious addition to any summer barbecue.

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Bridget Lancaster and Jack Bishop prepare a traditional summer barbecue, as imagined by WHYY's artist-in-residence, Tony Auth.

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 12:34 pm

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Tired of regular old hamburgers and hot dogs for July 4?

You're in luck. On Tuesday's Fresh Air, Jack Bishop and Bridget Lancaster from America's Test Kitchen join Terry Gross to highlight some of their favorite grilling techniques and summer recipes — everything from meats to vegetables to, yes, even desserts.

Bishop and Lancaster have been grilling for years. They love the technique because it concentrates flavors and makes food taste really, really good.

Movie Reviews

11:07 am

Tue July 3, 2012

A Lanky Teenager On The Path To (Super) Power

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Andrew Garfield stars in The Amazing Spider-Man, in which the nerdy, web-slinging superhero gets an overhauled origin story.

By Bob Mondello

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 6:06 pm

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I know you're skeptical. Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man was last slinging webs just five years ago. Broadway's Spider-Man started singing about webs less than two years ago. Now here comes another Spider-dude: This Andrew Garfield guy. So he'd better be really something, right? Well, as it happens, he is.

The Two-Way

10:53 am

Tue July 3, 2012

French Investigators Search Ex-President Sarkozy's Home

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French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy.

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French investigators searched the home and offices of former President Nicolas Sarkozy today. The AP reports the search is connected to a "probe into suspected illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign."

The AP adds:

"The official says Judge Jean-Michel Gentil and other investigators from the Paris financial crimes unit conducted the search. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be publicly named discussing an ongoing investigation."

Monkey See

10:30 am

Tue July 3, 2012

A Nerd Is Not A Geek: Two Spins On Spider-Man

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Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man.

By Linda Holmes

The biggest challenge The Amazing Spider-Man faces might be surprisingly existential for a summer blockbuster: Why should it be?

Politics

10:05 am

Tue July 3, 2012

Marco Rubio Draws On Family To Keep Him Grounded

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 11:03 am

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program, we'll talk about the latest chapter in the work/family debate that's taken off from a provocative magazine piece written by former State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter. She resigned her high profile post after two years saying she needed to spend more time with family. And she meant it. We'll ask our panel of regulars in our parenting segment to join her to talk about her piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All."

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