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'World's Best Prom': A Town-Wide Celebration

By Madeleine Brand
Published June 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Madeleine Brand talks with Chris Talbott, director of the documentary film The World's Best Prom, which focuses on the Wisconsin town of Racine that has turned prom night into an annual town-wide celebration, where teens are treated like movie stars.

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Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).