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Love triangle undoes historical epic 'The Promise'

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:55 Last update: about 8 years ago

The Armenian Genocide is a curiously unexplored moment in our modern history, cinematically speaking. That fact alone makes director and co-writer Terry George's "The Promise " intriguing enough....

Ohio governor, ex-GOP presidential candidate, publishes book

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:22 Last update: about 8 years ago

The book, released Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, is roughly equal parts campaign-trail memoir, political biography and Kasich's own self-help therapy session for living in a post-Donald Trump...

For Father John Misty, doomsday is 'Pure Comedy'

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 16:29 Last update: about 8 years ago

Father John Misty, Josh Tillman's alias, makes his bleak, wordy account of today's human condition sound like a long-lost Elton John album from the early '70s. Drenched in piano and strings,...

In sensation of 'Get Out,' hints of a Trump-effect

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 15:54 Last update: about 8 years ago

There have been monster gorillas and sharp-clawed superheroes at the box office this month, but the biggest beast of them all has been Jordan Peele's $4.5 million, race-exploding thriller "Get...

Feast for the soul: Jim Harrison on wine and food

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 15:21 Last update: about 8 years ago

In 2004, Jim Harrison wrote an article for The New Yorker about a 37-course lunch he ate in France "that likely cost as much as a new Volvo station wagon." Fully expecting to be criticized, he offered...

Willie Nelson back with new songs on 'God's Problem Child'

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 16:36 Last update: about 8 years ago

Willie's back, thank goodness. "God's Problem Child " is Willie Nelson's first CD of completely new material in three years, and his advanced age (Don't look now, he turns 84 on April 29) hasn't...

A parade of originals sings a country tune

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 16:27 Last update: about 8 years ago

In his new book on country music, in the midst of a riff about Tom T. Hall's ascent, Peter Cooper boils the Nashville songwriting business down to its nuclear core. "When a songwriter signed a...

'Baywatch's' Dwayne Johnson just wants to entertain you

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 15:52 Last update: about 8 years ago

In 2000, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was trying to break into Hollywood. He was off to an OK start. The pro-wrestler already had a following, a role in "The Mummy Returns" and high-wattage charm. He...

Caitlyn Jenner talks of suicide, secrets in new book

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 15:20 Last update: about 8 years ago

Caitlyn Jenner opened up Monday about her frank new memoir detailing her now 2-year-old transition and the bumps along the way, including her three failed marriages, thoughts of suicide while she was...

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