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This week’s reviews newsletter spotlights two documentaries that show the humanity in unconventional practices and personalities: Spermworld and On the Adamant. One of them hits theaters this weekend while the other premieres on cable and then is quickly available to stream at home. Around 15 years ago, documentaries were headed in a con… ncG1vNJzZmimn6Ozqq%2FSZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZL%2Bmwsierqxlo6Wys7nWqKmlnF2ku27Ax55kmpyRoq6vwA%3D%3D

Late last year, the comic strip Doonesbury did something unexpected. Author Garry Trudeau dedicated a whole Sunday edition to hyping up, and linking, an animated film. “This Oscar-nominated gem has been delighting kids of all ages for years,” he wrote. The film was Windy Day (1968) by Faith and John Hubley. We’ve written a lot about the Hubleys. From their first collaboration in the mid-1950s, this husband-and-wife indie team broke rules — and ground.

It is the FINAL episode of season 11 of Vanderpyoomp with Janie & Paul going into their REACTIONS and FEELINGS on this season of reality TV. It has been a RIDE y’all. And I don’t know what THIS means. But we went to the mall right after we recorded this very bonus podcast episode of STAY F.… ncG1vNJzZmivlZq4prrDsJitnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omaimpah6przIrKadnV2rrq%2BwxKunrqWgYr%2B2uMSsZKudk5a9boGYmg%3D%3D

Sixty years ago this summer, Ironton, Ohio, native son Bobby Bare started work on his debut album for RCA Victor. The LP’s title track — “500 Miles Away from Home” — would turn out to be one of the best-selling singles in the 88-year-old Bare’s long career. Composition of the song is generally credited to folksinger Hedy West, who is said to have put it together from fragments of a melody she heard her uncle sing to her back in her native Georgia.