Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer


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Ben Webster - Chelsea Bridge
 

The President's State of the Union address from last night.

Interview: Benedict Cumberbatch on Alan Turing's Awkwardness and Sherlock's Sex Appeal
 

Fresh Air Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch

It's been a good year for Benedict Cumberbatch. The English actor has earned an Oscar nomination for his starring role in the film The Imitation Game, and he's won critical acclaim and a big following for his performance on TV's Sherlock.

In The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the brilliant, eccentric mathematician who led the team that broke the Enigma code used by German forces to encrypt their radio transmissions during World War II. Years later, in 1952, Turing was convicted of homosexuality, which at the time was illegal in Great Britain.

Cumberbatch tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies that because there are no visual or audio recordings of Turing, his portrayal of the man — including his stammer and awkwardness — relied on written anecdotes and the Turing family's own memories of the mathematician.

"The nieces I met ... were fantastically candid and had incredibly fond memories of this wondrous man and talked of him as someone who made them feel equals as children. ... They loved his company," Cumberbatch says. "They remember being very at ease; they don't remember being embarrassed or awkward about his stammer or him being embarrassed or awkward around them. That told me a lot. That told me a lot about who this man was — the arrested development in him; the idea that he could sympathize with the innocence of children because of everything the world had thrown at him to corrupt him, to destroy him, to make him an outsider."

Cumberbatch also starred in the HBO miniseries Parade's End and played WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the movie The Fifth Estate. His other film credits include War Horse, 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County and the Hobbit film series, in which he played the voice of Smaug the dragon.

I can't help it. I like it. Don't judge.
 

Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - I'm So Fancy

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Maroon 5 - Animals

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I'm listening to CNBC market reports. In case anyone was worried, I'm pleased to announce that the 1% is doing just great. :goodluck:

I have been burning the candle at both ends lately by being up intermittently around the clock for my job and a prehiring process for the job I really want and need... but I'm on my bed getting ready to sleep for a bit, and a flock of sea gulls are riding the thermals above the pine trees. It soothes me to hear the birds frolicking in the sky. :stillheart:

Fallin' - Alicia Keys - (remix) ft. Busta Rhymes & Rampage


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Pink - Who Knew



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Selena Gomez - Come & Get It


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All American Rejects - Move Along


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Eric Clapton - Pretending

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Zedd ft. Foxes - Clarity

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Young Forever - Jay-Z ft. Mr. Hudson

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