Month: March 2024

After your very first novel receives a Newbery Honor and you go on to win two Newbery Medals; after you become a two-time finalist for the National Book Award; after several of your books are adapted for the big screen (not to mention a stage musical and an opera); after you’re named the National Ambassador
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News Watch De La Soul Perform “Eye Know” on Colbert Prince Paul joined the trio for the Steely Dan–sampling 3 Feet High and Rising classic By Jazz Monroe March 8, 2024 Facebook X De La Soul on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, March 2024 (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Facebook
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Everyone in Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ compassionate feature My Dead Friend Zoe has suffered a loss. Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a nervous Afghanistan war veteran, is reeling from the death of her closest friend in combat. Dr. Cole (Morgan Freeman), the supervisor of the court-mandated therapy sessions Merit must attend, grieves absences in his own life. And Merit’s
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Bridgerton Season 3 hasn’t even premiered yet, but fans are already looking ahead to Season 4. There are plenty of Bridgerton love stories left, and Netflix isn’t even halfway through Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton collection of novels. Bridgerton is one of Netflix’s most popular series, so anticipation about the show’s future beyond Season 3 is expected. Penelope
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With the 96th Academy Awards just hours away, actors, directors and Hollywood’s biggest stars descended upon the Dolby Theatre on Saturday for the official dress rehearsal ahead of the big day.  The run-through, held each year as a way to familiarize the presenters and production crew with the flow of events before film’s biggest night, went
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Drena, whose first Instagram post is a black-and-white snap of her as a child out to dinner with her parents and then-couple Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston (“at this point all I wonder is WTF was I doing there ???” she wrote), has remained in show business as an actor and producer.  Growing up, “it definitely wasn’t the typical
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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos make watching TV better, and their spoof of Nicole Kidman‘s infamous — yet iconic — AMC Theaters commercial from almost three years ago is one reason why. The Live With Kelly and Mark hosts teased their upcoming live show from the site of the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,
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This originally appeared in our Today in Books daily newsletter, where each day we round up the most interesting stories, news, essays, and other goings on in the world of books and reading. Sign up here if you want to get it. _____________________________ Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now? Of course,
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News Israel Granted Eurovision 2024 Entry After Lyric Change Numerous artists from competing nations have called for Israel to be banned for breaching international law in Palestine By Jazz Monroe March 8, 2024 Facebook X Photo by LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/Belga/AFP via Getty Images Facebook X Israel will be allowed to compete at the 2024 Eurovision Song
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Creepy-doll characters are a fixture of countless horror movies, although few are as imposing as the life-size wooden mannequin that figures centrally in Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Rather than relying on an overtly identifiable genre template however, McCarthy’s second feature incorporates a distinctly internalized, foreboding atmosphere of dread that’s more unnerving than particularly frightening.
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Barry Keoghan appears to be giving his rumored girlfriend a sweet nod. The Saltburn actor stepped out to attend W Magazine and Louis Vuitton’s Academy Awards dinner in Los Angeles on Thursday, and eagle-eyed fans were quick to spot an accessory he was sporting. While Keoghan looked dapper in a leather jacket and white T-shirt, it was his friendship
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Few YA series have garnered the level of devotion and praise achieved by Holly Black’s Folk of the Air series (FOTA), which followed Jude Duarte and her battle for power in Faerie. It’s no surprise that Black’s massive fan base rejoiced when the author released a spinoff duology, the Novels of Elfhame. Picking up right
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Marc Saltarelli, the Filmmaker behind  “Studio One Forever”. Marc Saltarelli is a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose narrative films and documentaries have made him one of the most respected and admired directors and producers in the film industry. His movies have collectively been screened in over 250 major film festivals
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News Sleater-Kinney Share New Frayed Rope Sessions EP: Listen Proceeds from the Bandcamp sales of the three-track release benefit Noise for Now By Matthew Strauss March 8, 2024 Facebook X Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, photo by Ryan Cory Facebook X Sleater-Kinney have released a new three-song EP called Frayed Rope Sessions. As the
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A24’s psychological thriller Love Lies Bleeding by director Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris, opens in limited release on five screens in New York and LA , expanding next week. A reclusive gym manager Lou (Steward) falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed
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And in case you missed it, the season four finale of The Kardashians showed footage from then-pregnant Kourtney and husband Travis Barker‘s sex reveal party from the previous June. The Lemme founder and Blink-182 drummer welcomed son Rocky Thirteen Barker, 4 months—their first baby together and fourth child overall for each, on Nov. 1, weeks before the episode aired. During the episode, Kourtney also reflected on how their
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