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'The Golden Bachelor': Why Sandra Doesn't Regret Missing Her Daughter's Wedding for the Show (Exclus

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Sandra Mason is glad she decided to appear on The Golden Bachelor, even if it did mean missing her daughter's wedding. ET's Denny Directo spoke to the 75-year-old retired executive assistant after Gerry Turner eliminated her from the series, and she revealed why she has "zero" regrets about not attending her daughter's nuptials. "My son-in-law said to me, 'Mom, the ceremony is eight minutes. The marriage is forever.' He said, 'Go. Go!' My daughter, she said, 'Mom, I found my guy, you go find yours,'" Read More...

Girls, boys, art, pleasure! Italys paninaro subculture rides again

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MusicHymned by Pet Shop Boys, paninari dressed expensively, ate fast food, loved pop music – and some flirted with the far right. Now middle-aged, its scenesters explain its appeal On a sultry June afternoon the tables of a snack bar in Foglizzo, a small town in northern Italy, fill up with a dozen men riding motorbikes and dressed in colourful apparel. It’s a gang of paninari: a quintessentially Italian, once-dominant youth subculture. Read More...

Jurors Generate Drama Of Their Own In Smart, Disturbing 'Body In Question'

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The Body in Question By Jill Ciment Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleThe Body in QuestionAuthorJill Ciment Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Independent Bookstores Jill Ciment is one of those just-under-the-radar writers. Probably her biggest moment of popular recognition came a few years ago, when her novel, Heroic Measures, was made into a film called 5 Flights Up; it starred Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman as a married couple living in New York City who struggle to get their elderly dog to the vet in the midst of a terror alert. Read More...