Celebrities
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Book review: Amanda Gorman offers inventive collection of poems
Dec 29, 2021 5:00 am - "Call Us What We Carry" by Amanda Gorman (Viking Books) Asserting that "our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation" in "The ...
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AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Anupam Tripathi of 'Squid Game'
Dec 29, 2021 5:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea - Anupam Tripathi said his grandfather sometimes read his palm and told him he'd be rich one day. His joking response? "Where is my money!" The 33-yea...
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Q&A: Almodóvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'
Dec 26, 2021 6:30 am - Pedro Almodóvar has a theory that his films with male protagonists, like his autobiographical 2019 film "Pain and Glory," are darker and more somber. "I look inside myse...
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Blanchett, del Toro on the femme fatale of 'Nightmare Alley'
Dec 26, 2021 6:30 am - With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro's "Nightm...
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Denzel Washington on directing: 'I'm still learning'
Dec 25, 2021 6:30 am - Preparing to direct “A Journal for Jordan,” a bittersweet love story that opened on Christmas Day, Denzel Washington says he took a “master class.” That master class con...
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2021 in books: 'Everything feels magnified'
Dec 25, 2021 6:30 am - Books and authors mattered in 2021, sometimes more than the industry wanted. A 22-year-old poet became a literary star. The enthusiasms of young people on TikTok helped ...
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Men fill a void in sweet film 'The Tender Bar'
Dec 22, 2021 5:00 am - “The Tender Bar” - ★ ★ If you're ever thirsty on Long Island, look for a dive bar called The Dickens. It's a nice place, from all accounts. There are books everywhere, ...
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Best Bets: Harlem Globetrotters bring basketball tricks back to Rosemont's Allstate ArenaDec 21, 2021 5:00 am - Trickster fun Marvel at all the basketball tricks in store when the Original Harlem Globetrotters return to play two games at the Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, ...
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How a writer created his own take on 'A Christmas Story' set in his 1980s Batavia childhoodDec 21, 2021 4:30 am - Kevin Jakubowski, originally from Batavia, wanted to make a movie about growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s, with a parallel to the holiday classic "A Christmas Story...
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Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda in 'Lost Daughter'
Dec 19, 2021 6:20 am - NEW YORK - It's not often that two actors inhabit the same role seamlessly in a movie. But in Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Lost Daughter," Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley p...