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Eastwood's '15:17' recreates a thwarted attack

Saturday, 10 March 2018, 10:10 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

In his latest film, "The 15:17 to Paris," Clint Eastwood has taken his famously no-frills filmmaking further than ever before. Having already dispensed with many of the typical accoutrements of...

Judas Priest guitarist Tipton won't tour due to Parkinson's

Friday, 9 March 2018, 10:45 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Parkinson's disease has forced legendary guitarist Glenn Tipton to drop out of the upcoming Judas Priest tour. The British rockers say Tipton is stepping down from touring due to the ailment,...

'Black Panther' is dazzling grand-scale filmmaking

Friday, 9 March 2018, 10:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

The supposedly cosmically vast Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it's called, spans planets peppered throughout the galaxy, but Ryan Coogler's Earth-bound "Black Panther," glittering and galvanizing,...

Timberlake is a man lost in the woods on new album

Thursday, 8 March 2018, 10:43 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Justin Timberlake, "Man of the Woods" (RCA Records) Dare I say it — but Justin Timberlake, you have failed us. The superstar singer produced epic solo albums with 2002's "Justified,"...

Pop icon John Oates dives deep into American roots

Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:41 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

The less celebrated half of the pop duo Hall & Oates has tapped into a rich vein of American roots music on his latest offering, an album that demonstrates his seriousness about the music-making...

MGMT's 'Little Dark Age' is off-kilter, challenging

Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 10:40 Last update: about 7 years ago

If MGMT's first album in four years gets really trippy, there's a good reason. One song was apparently created during a real acid trip. If that's what it takes to get the creative juices flowing...

HBO biopic about Penn State's Joe Paterno premieres April 7

Monday, 5 March 2018, 10:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

An HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will premiere April 7. HBO tweeted the premiere date Friday, along with a trailer to the film directed by Barry...

Listen to David Duchovny, wish for alien abduction

Monday, 5 March 2018, 10:36 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

In an upcoming episode of "The X-Files," Fox Mulder gets mixed up with some paranormal forces and somehow believes he's a rock 'n' roll god. No, wait. That's not a TV show. It's apparently real life...

Brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Thursday, 16 October 2014, 11:14 Last update: about 11 years ago

When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could...

Book of NY 'objects' sure to spark debate

Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 11:11 Last update: about 11 years ago

This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops. Stoop is object No. 40, in fact, in this book that needs no...

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