Category: Entertainment
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Review: Cosmic comic Todd Snider shares stories and hilarity
“Live: Return of the Storyteller,” Todd Snider (Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers)
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Renowned author Joan Didion honored by hundreds at memorial
NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Didion’s precision with words extended even to ones she would never live to hear, such as those used during a small, private service this spring at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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Review: Sidney Poitier documentary shows a constant striving
Sidney Poitier was not expected to live. He was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father planned to use a shoe box as a makeshift coffin.
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Fendi, Diesel open Milan Fashion Week with sense of renewal
MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week opened Wednesday with a sense of renewal.
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Review: Corky Siegel’s blues knocks down musical boundaries
“MORE Different Voices,” Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues (Dawnserly Records)
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Paris taps French stage director Jolly for Olympic opening
PARIS (AP) — Paris Olympic organizers appointed prize-winning French theater director Thomas Jolly on Wednesday to direct the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Games and the Paralympics.
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Bettor up! Record spending on California gambling question
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California is the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history at about $400 million and counting, pitting wealthy Native American tribes against online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes over what’s expected to be a multibillion-dollar marketplace.
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Review: Is ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ worth all the drama?
Somewhere around when TikTok videos were analyzing, with the intensity of the Zapruder film, whether spit flew at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” it became clear that the melodrama of the movie’s promotional tour had easily eclipsed the movie, itself.
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Jimmy Kimmel signs 3-year extension for ABC late-night show
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel celebrated his 20th anniversary as ABC’s late-night host early, signing a three-year contract extension for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
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Celebrities coming back to White House after Trump drought
WASHINGTON (AP) — Celebrities are back at the White House following a pop-culture backlash during the Trump years, when just about anyone considered high-wattage refused to show up.