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Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep

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It's All Politics
3:03 am
Thu February 21, 2013

Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan

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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., checks his phone before a hearing on Capitol Hill in September.
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Originally published on Thu February 21, 2013 8:24 am

Comprehensive immigration reform seems to top everyone's legislative wish list this year, and bills are already taking shape in the White House and the Democratic-led Senate.

A bipartisan group of senators recently laid out a path to citizenship for millions living in the country unlawfully. Less clear is where the Republican-led House is headed on immigration.

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Hollywood Jobs
12:05 am
Thu February 21, 2013

For Film Set Decorators, Tiny Details Count

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The third floor of the Warner Brothers Prop House holds a host of antiques available for rent by set decorators working on television and films. Each of the building's four floors is as big as a football field.
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The first floor displays a range of high-end modern furniture and designer collections, plus kitchen and bath accessories (including rolling bathtubs).
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Freelance set dresser Joe Viau is returning a rented lamp to the Prop House. The fixtures department is always making adjustments to be sure everything is safe to use.
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The Prop House has a section called "White House Art." No, they're not real. But a film must secure permission from the White House to use any of this art, even if it's a copy.
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Set decorator Lauri Gaffin tests out a couch for an upcoming Johnny Depp film. Assistant set decorator Florence Fellman takes a photo so the two can confer with the production designer.
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Inside one of the 35 or 40 trucks that arrives daily to collect set dressings.
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Warner Brothers worker Stephen Lampke moves furniture on the Prop House's second floor, which holds the "contemporary" items: sofas, coffee tables, end tables, bookcases, mostly middle-class workaday furniture.
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The football-field-sized third floor of Warner Brothers' Prop House, where they keep a host of antiques available for rent.
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The set decorating crew of an upcoming film starring Johnny Depp includes lead man Anthony Carlino (from left), assistant set decorator Florence Fellman and set decorator Lauri Gaffin.
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Randall Thropp, a Paramount archivist, recoils in mock fear from the power of the AllSpark as set decorator Rosemary Brandenburg takes it from the glass case. The AllSpark was used as a prop in Transformers; it may have another life in an upcoming sequel.
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Twin brothers Ildemaro (left) and Rafael Molina work as set decorators on a movie set in North Hollywood.
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Karen O'Hara, along with one of her set dressers, wires white and yellow silk flowers to the canes of a dormant rosebush in a Los Angeles backyard.
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Originally published on Thu February 21, 2013 3:07 pm

Picture Rick's smoky cafe in Casablanca, Lincoln's office at the White House of the 1860s, or the Mos Eisley cantina on the desert planet of Tatooine: A production designer came up with the overall look of those movie sets. But the booze on Rick's bar or the pens on Lincoln's desk — it took a set decorator and a crew to make them look authentic and believable.

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World
9:41 am
Wed February 20, 2013

In Bail Hearing, Pistorius Says Girlfriend's Death Was Accidental

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Europe
8:00 am
Wed February 20, 2013

Museum Goers Strip Down To View Nude Exhibit

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. An exhibit in a Vienna Museum titled "Nude Men From 1800 to the Present Day" drew a group of 60 present-day men who stripped down to view it. It was a special after-hours tour; they viewed the exhibition in nothing but socks and shoes. The tour guide was dressed. One of the men who viewed the art in his birthday suit first saw it while clothed. He said it's perfect to see naked men as a naked man. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Europe
7:56 am
Wed February 20, 2013

Italy Edges Out Election Pollsters

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.

Italy is trying to keep pollsters from influencing the outcome of an approaching election. Pollsters still do surveys for private clients, but are banned from publishing results. Some websites have found coded ways to report surveys. A gambling site reports polls disguised as fake horse racing results, with horses named after political parties. Another site offers fake cardinals supposedly contending to be pope.

It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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