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Fresh Air Weekend: Sissy Spacek, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Sissy Spacek received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in <em>Coal Miner's Daughter</em>.
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Sissy Spacek received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter.

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

Sissy Spacek's 'Extraordinary Ordinary Life':The actress's film career has spanned more than four decades. She recounts some of her favorite memories from the sets of movies such as Coal Miner's Daughter, Badlandsand Carrie in a new memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: From 'Seinfeld' To 'Veep':The actress will forever be known to millions as Elaine Benes, the character she played for nine seasons on Seinfeld. But she was also an early cast member of SNL, won an Emmy for The New Adventures of Old Christine and now stars in a new HBO comedy series called Veep.

'The Newlyweds': A Match Made Online:As accusations of sexism ricochet through the book industry, Nell Freudenberger continues to craft wonderful literary fiction, writes Maureen Corrigan. Freudenberger's latest novel, The Newlyweds, tells the story of an Internet-arranged, cross-continental marriage.

You can hear the original broadcasts here:

  • Sissy Spacek's 'Extraordinary Ordinary Life'
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus: From 'Seinfeld' To 'Veep'
  • 'The Newlyweds': A Match Made Online

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