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With only three games remaining in the regular season, the Syracuse Orange (18-10, 9-6) will take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (11-16, 4-11) Saturday…

The British are crazy for actor and comedian Russell Brand, but he's not content to stop with his compatriots. With a comic triumph as a bad-boy rocker in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and a startlingly frank memoir called My Booky Wook, Brand is shooting for Stateside stardom.

Listener Jerry Cordaro plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

From Stagecoach to The Graduate, movies have helped to shape our world. Nick Clooney, former host of cable's American Movie Classics, joins NPR's Bob Edwards to talk about his new book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen. NPR Online has the list of the 20 movies featured in Clooney's book.

Richard Friedman of Silver Spring, Md., plays this week's puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The comic artist was discovered off the coast of Nago, Okinawa, Japan, wearing snorkeling gear. First published in 1996, the series he created became a worldwide sensation.

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor spent most of the 1990s belting out misanthropic anthems for young people decked out in dark eyeliner and combat boots. On Ghosts I-IV, Reznor drops the singing and puts his thick soundscapes in the center ring. It's a whole new world.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMU listener Jen Swedish and Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz.

A good golf game will help you with next week's challenge.

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's Dennis the Menace for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.