The witty, cynical and often tongue-in-cheek songwriter Randy Newman is the subject of a new biography. He also wrote a bunch of film scores, including the music for
Toy Story,
Ragtime, A Bug's Life, and
Monsters, Inc. We're revisiting Newman's interview with Terry Gross from 1998 and Ken Tucker reviews the book,
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country.Justin Chang reviews the new Vatican thriller
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