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Oscar-winning short ‘Young Love’ now a Max animated series by Nina Metz Chicago Tribune

The show zeros in on the kinds of small details that make up a life. Hoping that a working parent will be able to carve out time to show up at a school event. Or the way a child sleeping in …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:59AM

Saturday, May 12, 2018

My worst moment: How Leslie Odom Jr. almost quit acting before ‘Hamilton’ made him a star by Nina Metz Chicago Tribune

“I almost didn’t make it here,” Leslie Odom Jr. said in his Tony acceptance speech in 2016. There’s a story behind that, and he tells it here.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:04PM

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