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Why are there so many movies about the movies?

NPR's Bob Mondello, Aisha Harris and Scott Detrow discuss the compulsion to make movies about the movies and when they work best.

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Marc Rivers
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Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
Aisha Harris
Aisha Harris is a host of Pop Culture Happy Hour.