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Wouk, who said he was never a "high stylist," attracted a mass audience with books that espoused such values as gallantry and leadership under pressure. Leading critics sniffed at his books,…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:24PMFriday, March 29, 2019
"It's like a stream of feelings, intuition and joy of discovering things," Varda said of her directing method in a 2001 interview with IndieWire. "Finding beauty where it's maybe not. Seeing…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:10PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
The Kennedy Center is out with its annual list of honorees who will collect those famous rainbow-striped medals at a glitzy, celeb-studded ceremony and show in December. And (surprise!) seve…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:12PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
In a new sexual misconduct scandal that could shake the economics of Hollywood in unprecedented ways, Disney said Tuesday that animation chief John Lasseter would be taking a six-month leave…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:28PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Halfway through the new Broadway musical "The Band's Visit," a restaurateur in a remote Israeli town sings an aching ballad.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PMFriday, October 20, 2017
"Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton," the latest documentary from Rory Kennedy ("Last Days in Vietnam"), is partly the life story of Hamilton, widely considered the world's best big…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:49PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Since the second half of 1983, when "Cujo," "The Dead Zone" and "Christine" rolled into theaters, one after another, it's been unofficial Hollywood writ that no Stephen King novel, novella o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:17PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Ben Platt, who more than three years ago spoke the words and sang the music of "Dear Evan Hansen" for the first time, going on to win the Tony Award in June for best actor in a musical, will…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
As a young woman and into her middle years, Carroll had a career of firsts. The first black actress to win a Tony, for the 1962 musical "No Strings," in which her fashion-model character was…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:42PMMonday, June 12, 2017
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
The wish was to write a truly original show based on a perception Pasek had back in high school, when a student died and his classmates rushed disconcertingly to claim the status -- and atte…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:36PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
The Oscar-winning writer and executive producer expressed shock when the topic of diversity and gender equity came up during the Writers Guild Festival in Hollywood.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:11AMMonday, March 20, 2017
Broadway productions of "Waitress" and "Sweeney Todd" are incorporating serving pie and pierogi to members of the audience during each performance.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:15PMThursday, March 16, 2017
A community orchestra performance, a new work from an emerging playwright, art therapy for a returning veteran, local library classes in Braille, free standardized-test preparation, and Bert…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AMFriday, March 10, 2017
"Kong: Skull Island" is a big, noisy B-movie infused with moments of wit and sprightly visual sophistication, anchored by what surely must be the most enormous version of King Kong since the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:00AMMonday, February 27, 2017
In what is most certainly the most shocking moment in Oscars history, Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner for best picture at the end of the night, awarding the trophy to "La La Land" wh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
When Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's "La La Land" won nearly universal praise from critics late last year as a delightful vestige of classic Hollywood musicals, you could practically feel the …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:53PMFriday, December 23, 2016
Denzel Washington delivers a leonine, devouringly powerful performance as one of American theater's most imposing patriarchs in "Fences," a classic of contemporary dramatic literature that h…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMChristmas is one of the busiest moviegoing days of the year, and not just because many families need a two-hour break from each other. Some of the year's best, most exciting films come out a…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
By Peter Marks, The Washington Post It’s musical theater geekdom, for the win. That’s right, all you show tune skeptics, you who snicker at the spectacle of unison-dancing cats o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:24PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Disney films tend to follow a recipe that includes a hero's journey (either figurative or literal), a sidekick, catchy songs, a villain and a lesson. The studio's latest animated feature che…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMThursday, November 3, 2016
For a stretch, actor John Slattery was in danger of permanently playing Handsome Guy, the boyfriend, the date, even the naked lust object.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:03PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Several months before Mary Rodgers' death in mid-2014, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, who were busy turning her 1972 young-adult comic novel, "Freaky Friday," into a musical, had the opportunity…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:39AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
With Disney's confirmation Wednesday that the studio will remake its 1994 classic "The Lion King," the idea that you don't mess with perfection has just been felled in a corporate gorge, if …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:03PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Why, one might ask, would Bruce Springsteen need to write an autobiography? Haven’t we been listening to it for the past half-century? Hasn’t he been telling us his story all along?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:48AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Baz Luhrmann's defining aesthetic is unexpected juxtaposition, whether he's mashing up "Time After Time" with Australian ballroom dance competitions, Elton John and the post-Impressionist mo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:30AMFriday, June 3, 2016
Clever, amiable and eager to please, "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" is the comedy equivalent of the pop-rap star it satirizes, a bit of stupid-smart silliness that offers plenty of ple…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:45PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
★★★ Drama. PG-13. 93 minutesAwkward adolescence is a subject of some fascination for Argentine director Lucía Puenzo, whose "XXY" and "The Fish Child" both explored…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:55PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
It's easier to like "The Railway Man" than it is to love it. Despite solid performances by Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgard, and a handsome cinematic sheen burnishing the
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:29PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Music, literature and the arts are for many people indispensable companions through times of great sorrow.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:10PM 
