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Book Review: 'Believe' takes a curious, not judgmental, look at success of 'Ted Lasso'

Nov. 12, 2024 08:52 AM EST

It's hard to believe that a TV show based on a series of commercials with the same punchline — an American football coach confused by the rules of soccer — could have lasted beyond an episode or two. It's even harder to believe that it became an Emmy-winning hit with a cast invited to the White...

Movie Review: 'Gladiator II,' with Denzel Washington, goes back into the arena

Nov. 11, 2024 09:11 AM EST

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ruled by a pale-faced emperor. On the throne is Geta...

Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man'

Nov. 11, 2024 14:22 PM EST

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hart to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and “Freedomland,” fans can now add “Lazarus Man.” The story...

Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

Nov. 11, 2024 14:09 PM EST

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Few...

Book Review: Reader would be 'Damn Glad' to pick up a copy of actor Tim Matheson's new memoir

Nov. 11, 2024 12:18 PM EST

Tim Matheson has portrayed a president and vice president. A police officer and military officer. And more than a few doctors. He's worked with Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Jackie Gleason, Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell and Steven Spielberg. He appeared in episodes of everything from “Leave to...

Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

Nov. 11, 2024 10:42 AM EST

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel would be a whodunit murder mystery. “Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of...

At an art festival in Dakar, artists from both sides of the Atlantic examine the legacy of slavery

Nov. 08, 2024 11:46 AM EST

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year's Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese capital stood in stark contrast to the serious topic of slavery featuring in the artworks of guest artists from the United States. The U.S....

After 20 years of acting, ‘My Old Ass’ filmmaker Megan Park finds her groove behind the camera

Nov. 07, 2024 16:06 PM EST

Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs. She didn’t set out to make a tearjerker with “My Old Ass,” now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young...

Movie Review: In Andrea Arnold's 'Bird,' a gritty fairy tale doesn't take flight

Nov. 06, 2024 13:24 PM EST

“Is it too real for ya?” blares in the background of Andrea Arnold’s latest film, “Bird,” a 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) rides with her shirtless, tattoo-covered dad, Bug (Barry Keoghan), on his electric scooter past scenes of poverty in working-class Kent. The...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 17-23

Nov. 11, 2024 09:52 AM EST

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 17-23: Nov. 17: Singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons is 83. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 82. Actor Lauren Hutton is 81. Actor-director Danny DeVito is 80. “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 80. Actor Stephen...

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Percival Everett's 'James' is a finalist for Carnegie Medal for fiction

Nov. 12, 2024 11:08 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, $5,000 honors for fiction and nonfiction presented by the...

Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan wrap production on 'Outlander'

Nov. 12, 2024 11:07 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — “Outlander” is returning with the concluding episodes of its seventh season this month, but its stars have already wrapped official production on the show’s eighth and final season. Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan, who have played time traveler Claire and 18th...

Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93

Nov. 12, 2024 10:50 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died aged 93. Auerbach’s gallery, Frankie Rossi Art Projects, said on Tuesday the artist died at his home in London the day before. ...

Q&A: Lashana Lynch is on the hunt for Eddie Redmayne in 'The Day of the Jackal'

Nov. 12, 2024 10:39 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Lashana Lynch was running away from spies. After playing Nomi in 2021’s “No Time To Die,” she was actively avoiding any role that involved working for the secret service. What part could beat a Bond girl who took James Bond’s 007 code name from him? ...

Eminem, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A. and Janet Jackson get Songwriters Hall of Fame nods

Nov. 12, 2024 09:05 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, N.W.A. and Alanis Morissette are among the nominees for the 2025 class at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, an eclectic group of rap, rock, hip-hop and pop pioneers. Joining them on the...

Eminem, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A. and Janet Jackson get Songwriters Hall of Fame nods

Nov. 12, 2024 09:02 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Eminem, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A. and Janet Jackson get Songwriters Hall of Fame nods.

Book Review: 'Believe' takes a curious, not judgmental, look at success of 'Ted Lasso'

Nov. 12, 2024 08:52 AM EST

It's hard to believe that a TV show based on a series of commercials with the same punchline — an American football coach confused by the rules of soccer — could have lasted beyond an episode or two. It's even harder to believe that it became an Emmy-winning hit with a cast invited to the White...

Britain's Queen Camilla returns to public duties after chest infection

Nov. 12, 2024 07:26 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Camilla is set to return to public duties Tuesday after missing weekend events commemorating the nation’s war dead because she was recovering from a chest infection. Camilla, 77, plans to attend a reception for the finalists in the annual Booker...

European fake art network involving Banksys, Warhols, Modiglianis uncovered in Italy

Nov. 12, 2024 07:13 AM EST

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses has been dismantled. Thirty-eight people have been placed under...

Theater festival offers solace in Burkina Faso, a nation torn by violence

Nov. 12, 2024 05:41 AM EST

OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso. She fled her village after it was attacked by extremists, leaving her husband and her farm behind....