He was soon promoted to agent, with a salary of $38 a week, before eventually moving to the company’s Los Angeles office, where he specialized in packaging mid-1960s TV series like “Gomer...
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Read moreRoblox hinted at another robust quarter, but competition looms in the metaverse. A few weeks of improving trends is giving hope to Roblox Corp.’s investors that the worst of the gaming platform’s post-pandemic...
Read moreThe first new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song in nine years isn’t a guitar blast. It’s a solemn, cavernous synthesizer march with late-arriving guitars and other, often elusive sounds flitting above a steadfast...
Read moreAngel Olsen does not care for empty pleasantries, in conversation or her music. “I don’t like small talk,” the 35-year-old St. Louis-born singer and songwriter said in a recent New Yorker profile,...
Read more‘Kuthiraivaal’Stream it on Netflix.Trying to summarize or describe this spectacularly zany Tamil mindboggler is a fool’s errand, but I’ll make an attempt: Saravanan (Kalaiyarasan), a young bank employee who also calls himself...
Read moreToward the end of the 20th century, the British novelist and critic John Berger insisted on the importance of what he called “pockets of resistance” — small-scale efforts to oppose global systems...
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