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The final New York performance will be July 26, seven years after it opened; international and touring productions continue.
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Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work's great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here's where to start.
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Who will join him onstage? And how political will he get?
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The FBI is investigating a note demanding ransom for the 84-year-old, and announced a $50,000 reward for information about her whereabouts.
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We already have "penis-gate" and a confused Canadian pop star.
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Highlights include the hall's first "Ring," cycles of sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart and a birthday celebration for Steve Reich.
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Jessica Stone directs the rarely-seen Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray-Noël Coward musical.
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The Spanish actor Carmen Maura shines as a widow forced to sell her childhood home in Morocco in this film by Maryam Touzani.
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 When we first teased the return of A.V. Undercover after seven years on Twitter, asking who should kick off season 9, our friends over at Consequence suggested GWAR cover "I'm Just Ken." We responded, "We're down if @gwar is." It turned out that, in fact, GWAR was.
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Talk show host Dick Cavett (b. 1936) is rightly remembered as having one of the very best talk shows on television. His unusual combination of Yale-educated intellectualism and Nebraska-bred midwestern ordinariness, a kind of perpetual state of halting slight embarrassment, charmed audiences. They appreciated his self-deprecating humor and, most significantly, his eclectic guests. His smart conversations spurred many guests who'd rarely (or never) turn up on The Tonight Show, "Joey Bishop" or "Mike Douglas": esteemed writers, firebrand political activists, out-of-the-mainstream rock stars, and reclusive actors like Brando and Katharine Hepburn. More than a decade ago, Shout! Factory released a superb series of boxed sets to DVD, one devoted to "Hollywood Greats" like Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Kirk Douglas and others. "Comic Legends" featured the likes of Wo...Read the entire review
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