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Stella Stevens, Sexy, Funny Hollywood Star Of 1960s and ’70s, Is Dead At 84
"(She was) known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films as The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship...
Public Radio’s “The Takeaway” Will End In June
"The news program, which launched in 2008 as an alternative to NPR's Morning Edition, has seen declining carriage and audience, according to leaders at...
Why Is An Erotic Love Poem, One That Never Really Mentions God, In The...
Actually, Jewish and Christian theologians have been trying to finesse that question about the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) for 2,000...
Why So Many Choreographers Want To Set “The Rite Of Spring”
Since Nijinsky created the original in 1913, there have been, starting in 1920, more than 150 different dance settings to Stravinsky's score. Most follow...
Why Exactly Is That BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi So Controversial? (An Explainer)
For a start, the TV film — titled India: The Modi Question — deals with a very sore subject for the Prime Minister: his...
The Biggest New Bollywood Hit, The Comeback For Its Biggest Star, Has Quite A...
Before Pathaan — which just knocked Avatar 2 out of the top spot on the global box office chart — Shah Rukh Khan hadn't...
Why Disney More Or Less Surrendered In Its Struggle With Gov. Ron DeSantis
"When Florida stripped Disney of its special tax zone around the company's theme parks, it led observers to wonder: Why would Disney cede this...
Advertising For Broadway Shows Isn’t Working Like It Used to. Here’s What Needs Fixing.
"Great advertising does not create success. Great shows do. But advertising can expand success from a limited audience and make it larger. Much larger....
Rio’s First All-Female Samba School
"The community-tied music and dance clubs have always included women, commonly as seamstresses and dancers. They've played the schools' smaller instruments; Carnival queens lead...
Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia
Last year the 67-year-old actor retired after receiving a formal diagnosis of aphasia. His condition has now worsened: he's suffering progressive loss of nerve...
The Architect Who’ll Renovate Greece’s National Archaeological Museum Is David Chipperfield. Some Greeks Are...
"Before the proposed design had been chosen, the Association of Greek Architects had threatened to (go to) the country's supreme administrative court after it...
Judge Orders Paris’s Musée d’Orsay To Restitute Four Major Impressionist Paintings Stolen By The...
"The group includes Renoir's 1883 seascape Marine Guernesey, and a study, completed around 1908, for The Judgement of Paris (in the collection of the...
Why Bertolt Brecht’s Plays Still Attract Directors And Audiences On Six Continents
Even 67 years after his death, the left-wing firebrand's work gets produced from Germany to Japan to Togo (Mother Courage is currently being staged...
A “Documentary Opera” Asks What Russians Really Think About Russia
In what seems to be a cross between an Anna Deavere Smith interview-based theater piece and Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet,...
All Those Dealers Selling Stolen Antiquities? This Man Was Their Biggest Customer
"Starting in the 1980s, (Michael) Steinhardt amassed one of the world's great collections of antiquities. Renowned for their breadth and quality, his private holdings...
The Critic-Hating, Dog-Poop-Smearing Choreographer Is Officially Fired
After the incident last Saturday in which Marco Goecke, enraged over a harsh review, smeared the face of critic Wiebke Hüster with the feces...
Jürgen Flimm, A Major Opera And Theater Director, Is Dead At 81
He was artistic director at some of the German-speaking world's most illustrious institutions: Hamburg's Thalia Theater, the Ruhrtriennale, the Salzburg Festival, and the Berlin...
Creative Block: How Brexit Has Thoroughly Hamstrung Britain’s Arts Sector
"Unfortunately, Brexit seems to be good at putting up barriers. Brexit red tape means that bringing in skilled workers the UK economy desperately needs...
There’s A Company On Tour Pretending To Be The “Ukrainian National Ballet Of Odessa”
Said an official at the Ukrainian Embassy to Ireland, "Neither the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Odesa nor any of its dancers...
The Podcasting Industry Slams On the Brakes
Several major podcast publishers have had layoffs, and "Amazon, SiriusXM, NPR and Spotify have all curbed podcast budgets in the last year, sometimes allowing...
Raquel Welch, Dead At 82, Knew She Was More Than A Sex Symbol
"I realized when I came along, I wasn't Meryl Streep who had been put into a bikini. I was somebody that got rocketed into...
When This Volume Is Auctioned In May, It Will Become The Most Expensive Book...
"The Codex Sassoon, dating to the late 9th to early 10th century, is believed to be the earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible." The...
Paramount Is Trying To Sell Simon & Schuster Again
"Paramount Global is again seeking to sell Simon & Schuster, months after the media company's $2.2 billion deal to sell the book publisher to...
The Hot New Trend In Classics Instruction: Actually Speaking Latin
"Today, 'grammar analysis' remains the framework of much Latin instruction. But spoken Latin is becoming increasingly common in classrooms. According to a 2019 survey...
Yes, Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned, Forensics Experts Have Determined
"The revelation by Rodolfo Reyes, a Neruda nephew, is the latest turn in one of the great debates of post-coup Chile. The long-stated official...
