Fergie is apologizing after trying something different with the national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game.
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U.S. stocks were mostly lower in the early going Tuesday as trading reopened after a long holiday weekend. Disappointing earnings from Walmart weighed on the market, which was coming off a six-day winning streak. Losses in consumer-focused stocks and other sectors outweighed gains in energy companies...
Jeff Drayer, the writer-producer-dermatologist of “Chicago Med” and “Royal Pains” fame, has found a cure to his housing blues, buying a custom Mediterranean-style home in Brentwood for $3.165 million.
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This is why they put their lives on hold, why members of the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team left their loved ones behind and gathered to train in Florida in mid-September, hoping to find even the smallest mental or physical advantage that might help them win a game they’ve waited four years to...
A series of low-magnitude earthquakes struck near Danville early Tuesday morning, the latest in a flurry of quakes that have shaken the Bay Area in recent days, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The Trump administration took new steps Tuesday to loosen health insurance rules, moving to allow the sale of more short-term health plans that do not need to offer consumers a full range of health protections.
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From the moment you step into a nondescript building near Columbus Circle in New York City, you are transported from Manhattan to the beloved and fictional Downton Abbey in England. “Downton Abbey: The Exhibition” allows fans to once again fall in love with the lives and stories of the Crawley...
Spring break is that long-awaited vacation time between late February and April when winter holiday weekends have run out and Memorial Day seems so far away. The most popular destinations for 2018 spring breakers look to be Orlando, Fla., in the U.S. and Cancun, Mexico, on the international front.
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Washington, D.C., sightseers can get some sweet discounts on museums and sports tickets with Hilton’s Capital Adventure Package good at 59 hotels in the area.
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There is a moment in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless” where a boy, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), tries to keep quiet hiding behind a door as he sobs over the argument his parents are having in the other room. It’s a striking image that captures the pain children often experience during a divorce no...
Several years ago, after completing work on “The Wolverine,” Hugh Jackman and I found ourselves facing the prospect of making one final film about this character. It would be Hugh’s last after a 17-year run.
Читать дальше...The bestselling "Area X" trilogy made Jeff VanderMeer America's foremost purveyor of "weird fiction." Now, with his novel "Annihilation" being released as a movie starring Natalie Portman, the writer is poised to reach the mainstream.
We’ve seen “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and even the poverty of this season’s “Mudbound,” films in which the main characters struggle simply to survive financially. But Hollywood rarely shines a more nuanced light on the experience of being broke in America, the lower-middle class,...
Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney have all won Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and countless other prizes and gewgaws in the weeks leading up to the Oscars.
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Steve James does not hold grudges.
The fact that his wildly acclaimed 1994 film “Hoop Dreams” was not nominated for a documentary feature Oscar — one of the most controversial omissions in the history of the award — is in the past, as far as he’s concerned. The 63-year-old filmmaker is just happy...
The first piece of music in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” is a bed of icy notes, full of friction. Ah, yes, you think — this is a Jonny Greenwood score.
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John Nelson recalls his first reaction when he was asked to be the visual effects supervisor for “Blade Runner 2049.” “I told them, ‘You’ve got to be ... kidding me!’ Ridley Scott’s original ‘Blade Runner’ is an important movie for anyone who loves sci-fi, visual effects and cinema in general....
Of course, it takes a fully realized performance to win an Academy Award, but sometimes it takes just a single scene to win the heart of an audience member — or an Oscar voter. But which scene is that “key” one — the prize-winning moment? Here, the 10 directors and producers behind this year's...
We had this thing going on the other day, Peterman and I, where all he wanted was regular cream for his coffee, and all he had to choose from at the diner were little plastic depth-charges of Irish cream or peppermint caramel.
Читать дальше...Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is up for more Oscars with his latest movie, "Phantom Thread." And he's pretty excited about that, even if his kids aren't.
Near the end of “Call Me by Your Name,” as the story’s two young lovers become utterly liberated — climbing sun-soaked Italian hills next to a roaring waterfall, reveling in their romance — the wistful, whispery voice of Sufjan Stevens furls in like the mist.
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Denzel Washington, Oscar-nominated for the title role in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” has an Academy Awards profile that parallels Jack Lemmon's in many ways. Here’s a by-the-numbers rundown:
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