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Leonard Cohen’s Estate Sues Former Attorneys For Fraud And Forgery
Millions of dollars were - and perhaps are - at stake. “The dispute highlights allegations of the vulnerabilities that artists face when they entrust...
As The Breakfast Club Turns Forty, Its Status As Teen Movie Blueprint Remains
“Hughes’ unvarnished take on youth culture, replete with joints and F-bombs, arrived in 1985 to fill a vacuum of movies about young people in...
Lea Salonga Says She’ll Never Tire Of Sondheim
Salonga, longtime Broadway star, is pleased with her newest role. “I’m getting the chance to sing some of the most incredible lyrics ever written....
Lorne Michaels Thinks He Knows A Thing Or Two About Managing Creative People
Fifty years of Saturday Night Live will do that to a person. "Writers don’t just conceive and pen sketches—they also produce and direct them,...
Sing Sing Star Colman Domingo Found Himself In Theatre
As a 19-year-old at Temple University, Domingo says, “just taking an acting class as an elective, it gave me a voice. ... And it...
The Martha Graham Dance Company Is Moving To Times Square And Getting A Lot...
"The company announced on Friday that it would leave its offices in the West Village of Manhattan and relocate to a 30,000-square-foot space in...
Edith Mathis, Soprano Whose Recordings Show Absolute Service To The Text, Has Died At...
“Edith Mathis a light-voiced Swiss soprano who sparkled in Bach, Mozart and Weber and was the agile-voiced favorite of several of the conducting...
Will Tonight’s BAFTAs Be A Good Predictor Of The Oscar Winners?
Maybe - things can be very different when Britain has a homegrown movie, like this year’s Conclave, to award. - Variety
The Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald Statue Is Recovered, But In Pieces
Maybe trying to sell a famously stolen statue from St. Paul at a local Twin Cities metal recycling business isn’t the best idea? -...
Netflix Responds, Sort Of, To The Fallout Over Emilia Perez Star’s Social Media Posts
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria: “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. … And...
The Not So Secret Gay History Of Saturday Night Live
“It all started when a drag performer named Connie Chutzpah sent Lorne Michaels a bouquet of flowers.” - Washington Post
Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create An Enduring Staple Of Off-Broadway Theatre, Has Died At...
Wydro was "a playwright, director and producer who with his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured their life savings into the Off Broadway gospel musical Mama,...
What Canada Thinks About The New Kennedy Center Guy
Author Louise Penny of the Inspector Gamache series: “I was supposed to launch The Black Wolf at the Kennedy Center in DC, but in the wake...
The Tiny British Publisher That Took A Big Risk – And That Is Now...
“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning...
The Cleveland Museum Will Finally Send A Statue Back To Turkey
After years of lawsuits that included information about just how the statue was trafficked into the United States from a site in Turkey that...
What Fernanda Torres’s Oscar Run Means For Brazil
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every...
How Does Portland’s Jazz Station Stay Alive?
“The mistake that I’ve seen a lot of jazz stations make is that they’re too close to the music to be broadcasters. When we...
How Does ‘Hamilton,’ Now A Decade Old, Hold Up?
“It all felt so good. The comfort of self-mythologizing, of thinking of ourselves as a nation of revolutionaries — delicious.” But, ouf, times have changed....
What Makes For A Perfect Episode Of TV?
Funny? Surprising? Weaves together various plot threads? Mentions death? “For some, a perfect episode tells a story that reverberates throughout their life." - The...
The First Dog In Space, And A Random Meeting In Norway, Inspired Ireland’s Eurovision...
Irish Eurosong winner Emmy says that Laika’s story “is really sad, so I wanted to create a scenario where she doesn’t die, but is...
Rutherford Chang, Conceptual Artist Who Made His Collections Art, Has Died At 45
Chang "turned his collection of the Beatles’ White Album into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic,” for instance, and also, "melted...
How The Trans Fantasia Batman Movie, AKA The People’s Joker, Came About
“‘It started as a joke,’ says Vera Drew. ‘I just took it a little too far.’” - The Guardian (UK)
Directors And Producers Guilds Make Anora The New Oscars Frontrunner
“More than a month after Anora lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden Globes, the Sean Baker-directed comedy took top honors...
How Dancer Syreeta Hector Kept Her Ballet Dream Alive During COVID-19
“She was committed to keeping the project alive, so she rented a shipping container and used it as a rehearsal space, continuing to improve...
Tom Robbins, Author Of Novels Including Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Has Died At...
“With their meandering plots, pop-philosophical asides and frequent jabs at social convention and organized religion, Mr. Robbins’s books were the perfect accompaniment to acid...
