Hollywood comes to Downton Abbey! Also: the clothes.
Monday, 13 February 2023, 10:50
Last update: about 3 years ago
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One wedding and a funeral — and a birth. That gorgeous house, never mind the leaky roof. Some sunshine, too! More bone-dry quips from Maggie Smith. And oh, the clothes — silks and satins,...
6 popular Black authors co-write teen romance 'Whiteout'
Monday, 13 February 2023, 10:43
Last update: about 3 years ago
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Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books. She's also...
MADC and Teatru Manoel to stage Noël Coward classic
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 17:18
Last update: about 3 years ago
A wonderfully witty comedy of manners by Noël Coward is soon set for the Manoel stage, in an upcoming co-production from MADC and Teatru Manoel. Directed by Malcolm Galea and featuring a top...
'Amber Brown' springs to TV under Bonnie Hunt's sure hand
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 11:00
Last update: about 3 years ago
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Bonnie Hunt's approach to comedy deserves a patent. She's drolly forthright but reliably good-hearted, and gives viewers credit for their intelligence as demonstrated by pretty much everything she's...
Rita Wilson creates conversations with '70s-era duets
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:59
Last update: about 3 years ago
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When actor and singer Rita Wilson was a young girl, she and her Greek mother would bond over listening to songs on the radio, especially '70s singer-songwriters. Wilson's mother would engage her...
The pain and beauty of 'Crimes of the Future'
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:58
Last update: about 3 years ago
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Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg's " Crimes of the Future," a dense, gorgeous and grotesque meditation on bodies, creation and art. Suffering, however, is still...
Sullivan's warning: Journalists should be on high alert
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:52
Last update: about 3 years ago
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Margaret Sullivan cringed one day when a former colleague at The Washington Post, critic Carlos Lozada, tweeted with exasperation about books pitched to him as combinations of memoir and...
Proud Marvel super fan, Iman Vellani, stars in 'Ms. Marvel'
Monday, 6 February 2023, 09:57
Last update: about 3 years ago
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Iman Vellani, who stars as Kamala Khan in the new Disney+ series "Ms. Marvel," has a conundrum. Now that she's a part of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), does she remove the Marvel posters from...
Cosmic comic Todd Snider shares stories and hilarity
Monday, 6 February 2023, 09:56
Last update: about 3 years ago
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"Live: Return of the Storyteller," Todd Snider (Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers) On Todd Snider's new solo live album, some of his best riffs involve no notes. The stoner troubadour and cosmic...
Acting chemistry boosts (very) dark 'Count of Three'
Monday, 6 February 2023, 09:52
Last update: about 3 years ago
Associated Press
"On the Count of Three" is marketed as a "darkly comic" movie. Well, there's dark comedy and there's darker comedy, and then there's comedy like this — so dark that you wonder if the two words...