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When you first see Gene Hackman in “The French Connection” he’s wearing a Santa suit, conversing with a bunch of kids. It’s a jolly image that runs counter to what we’ll soon...

‘Drunk Black History’Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. at Littlefield, 635 Sackett Street, Brooklyn; littlefieldnyc.com.Derek Waters had an epiphany: Alcohol can make history more interesting and funnier. So in 2007 he created “Drunk...

Field: Complete NocturnesAlice Sara Ott, piano (Deutsche Grammophon)The Irish composer John Field (1782-1837) is commonly said to have invented the nocturne as a piece for piano, passing the form along for his...

Ninety pounds, the approximate weight of a Farfisa organ, nearly kept Benmont Tench from his destiny.It was late 1971, and Tench, a native of Gainesville, Fla., was home from college for Christmas....

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies...

GTA 6 release date: Discussions about GTA 6 continue as fans speculate on the possible release date of the second trailer. Rockstar Games, known for its detailed development process, has spent years...

On Tuesday night, over 100 Oscar nominees gathered at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for a class photo in the David Geffen Theater.In the upper left corner of the group, seated...

A teenager rescues and defends an infant creature whose species the surrounding adults have condemned as vicious and predatory. Another adolescent battles injury and other hurdles in a quest for basketball stardom....

Michelle Trachtenberg, who rose to fame as Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn, in the dark, comedic series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and as a conniving socialite on the show “Gossip Girl,” has died,...

Steve Olive, who has worked in the event carpet business for more than three decades, is the man the Academy trusts to get its iconic rug just right.