Month: March 2023

Throughout his broadcasting career, journalist and host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” Ari Shapiro has made connections with people from all walks of life. In his sparkling memoir, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening, Shapiro intimately invites readers into his childhood and beyond to show them how his youthful
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Friday afternoon: We’re hearing that New Line’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently on its way to an $11M Friday, inclusive of last night’s $3.4M, for what’s looking like a $30M opening at 4,071 theaters. The pic cost $125M before P&A, $25M more than the first Shazam! While that’s nothing to scream “Shazam!” about
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Courtney Love, September 2022 (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) News Courtney Love Criticizes Rock Hall’s “Sexist Gatekeeping” in Guardian Op-Ed “The Rock Hall’s canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility,” the Hole musician argues By Matthew Strauss March 17, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter For the past week, Courtney Love
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The United States Postal Service unveiled the new Toni Morrison forever stamp last Tuesday at a ceremony held at Princeton University. Morrison, one of the most influential modern American writers, was a professor at Princeton for almost 20 years, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Nobel Prize in Literature before she passed away
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Historical fiction is the star of our April issue (11 of our favorites!), but we’ve also got the first memoir from Big Fish author Daniel Wallace, Victor LaValle’s highly anticipated new horror novel and exceptional Earth Day books for kids. Upcoming issues of BookPage will bring special books for Mother’s Day and new releases from Hector Tobar,
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EXCLUSIVE: Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros Movie just landed on tracking this morning ahead of its Easter weekend release, and the animated film is shaping up to make at least $85M-$90M+ over its Wednesday through Sunday launch — and that’s on the conservative side. Given the fervent response by fans to trailers, it would not
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David Johansen and Martin Scorsese, October 2022 (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for FLC) News Martin Scorsese’s Documentary on New York Dolls’ David Johansen Gets Showtime Premiere Date Personality Crisis: One Night Only arrives in mid-April By Allison Hussey March 16, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter New York Dolls’ David Johansen is the center of
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In the wake of delivering Talking Heads frontman David Byrne his second Oscar nomination with Everything Everywhere All at Once, A24 has acquired worldwide rights to his former band’s 1984 cult hit concert pic, Stop Making Sense, for theatrical release later this year. A24 will give the Jonathan Demme directed movie (the filmmaker’s first concert
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Talking Heads’ David Byrne in Stop Making Sense (©Cinecom Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) News Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense to Get Restored and Re-Released by A24 The 4K restoration of Jonathan Demme’s inimitable 1984 concert film will hit theaters later this year By Matthew Strauss March 16, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Talking Heads’ inimitable 1984
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Camila Mendes isn’t one to shy away from her true identity. The Brazilian-American actress, best known for her breakout role in Riverdale and, most recently, as the fallen Queen Bee in Netflix’s Do Revenge, knows the value of self-acceptance, whether it’s onscreen, IRL, or “In My Tabby,” her new campaign for Coach, debuting exclusively on
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Robert Smith performs with The Cure in London, England, December 12, 2022. (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns) News The Cure’s Robert Smith Says He’s “Sickened” About Ticketmaster Fees as Tour Goes on Sale “I have been asking how they are justified,” he wrote on Twitter By Matthew Ismael Ruiz March 16, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter
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The 2023 Lambda Finalists were just announced. The award has been championing LGBTQ+ books for more than 30 years. By highlighting the stories of queer people, the Lambda awards preserve and affirm queer culture and experiences, something that is vital in a time of attacks on queer personhood. New executive director of Lambda Literary Samiya
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In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke with Sarah LaFleur, the founder and chief executive officer of M.M. LaFleur, a woman’s fashion brand built on creating stylish, comfortable clothes for women in the
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Leta McCollough Seletzky, author of The Kneeling Man Counterpoint | April 4 In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., one man is kneeling down beside King on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, trying to staunch the blood from the fatal head wound. This kneeling man, Leta McCollough Seletzky’s father,
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Sony has added one more release to the summer theatrical calendar, Stage 6 Films’ Knights of the Zodiac on May 12. Produced by Toei Animation and based on the international anime sensation, Knights of the Zodiac brings the Saint Seiya saga to the big screen in live-action for the first time. Seiya (Mackenyu), a headstrong street teen,
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My Morning Jacket, September 2022 (Scott Legato/Getty Images) News My Morning Jacket Announce 2023 North American Tour Dates The band has shows lined up from May through August By Matthew Strauss March 15, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter My Morning Jacket are continuing to tour behind their 2021 self-titled album. The next set of shows
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Alexis Marrero has just released her highly anticipated new single “Wake Me Up” which is now available worldwide. Alexis Marrero is a singer, songwriter, and self-taught musician from Cleveland, Ohio. She began her career at the age of 16 and has gone on to release fan favorite singles including “Something That I Missed” and “Rich
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