Suzanne Shepherd, an influential New York acting teacher who found success in midlife as a character actress, including memorable turns as the mothers of Edie Falco’s character on “The Sopranos” and Lorraine...
Read moreChildren, according to the old disciplinarian maxim, should be seen and not heard. The title characters of “The Witches,” Roald Dahl’s 1983 fantasy novel, would like to go one step further: They...
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Read moreSeason 5, Episode 2: ‘Trials and Tribulations’In its persistent engagement with the Coenverse so far, “Fargo” has done best when it tweaks our expectations rather than simply reward fans with references to...
Read moreSeason 5, Episode 1: ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’After drifting steadily away from its source of inspiration — Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 neo-noir thriller about the bloody unraveling of a criminal...
Read moreThe British car show “Top Gear,” one of the BBC’s most profitable and popular shows, will stop running after a presenter, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff, was seriously injured in a crash during filming...
Read moreIn October, The Walt Disney Company hailed its 100th birthday, marking the centennial of the day the brothers Walt and Roy Disney founded a studio to produce silent one-reel comedies. (Mickey Mouse...
Read moreThough Mr. Bailey himself never migrated from his adopted home, Georgia, after moving there as a child, he chafed at being pigeonholed as a Southern artist, or for that matter as a...
Read more“The problem with exposition is, why would you want a map when you’re trying to get lost?” asks Deepali Gupta near the start of “United States v. Gupta.”Lost is certainly how one...
Read moreTaylor Swift was welcomed to Brazil on Thursday by a projection that made the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro appear as if it were clad in a T-shirt...
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