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  • Celebrating movie icons: Dennis Hopper

    Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

  • Celebrating movie icons: Sidney Poitier

    In this 2000 interview, Poitier talked about his disastrous first audition, why reading was a struggle and how he went on to become the most famous Black actor of his generation.

  • Celebrating movie icons: Meryl Streep

    In 2012, the Oscar-winning actor talked about shifting accents for various roles, including her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady: "It's work, but it's not a struggle; it's fun."

  • Celebrating movie icons: Anthony Hopkins

    Hopkins won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the cannibalizing serial killer Hannibal Lector The Silence of the Lambs. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1991 about the character's distinctive voice.

  • Celebrating movie icons: Jodie Foster

    As a kid, Foster appeared in both the Disney film Freaky Friday and as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver. She later won an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs. Originally broadcast June 17, 2002.

  • Celebrating movie icons: Michael Caine

    Over the course of his decades-long career, Caine has appeared in well over 100 films, including Alfie, The Ipcress File and The Dark Knight Batman films. Originally broadcast in 1992.

  • Celebrating movie icons: Robert Duvall

    Duvall has starred in epic movies and intimate dramas. In 1996, he reflected on playing the Corleone family lawyer in The Godfather films, and about delivering the most famous line in Apocalypse Now.

  • Remembering pioneering film star Gena Rowlands

    Rowlands, who died Aug. 14, was known for the raw and improvised independent films she made in the 1970s and 1980s with her husband, John Cassavetes. Originally broadcast in 1996.