The hit television show” Law & Order SVU” is a national favorite, as the New York City squad investigates sexually based crimes, murders, suicides and assaults. While the show is purely fictional, art is know imitating life. It is being reported that an actress from the show has been found dead. According to Huffington Post,
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHillary Clinton, the press, refugees, fellow Republicans—the list of Donald Trump’s Twitter targets is long, with no signs of letup now that he’s less than two months away from inauguration day. We can now add a cultural phenomenon to the extensive list of perceived enemies: the cast of the Broadway smash Hamilton. The president-elect demanded
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAOne of the most notable absences from the 2016 election cycle was former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who for 15 years skewered the insanity of our political process nightly before stepping down in 2015. On Thursday morning, Stewart made a rare TV appearance on CBS This Morning, where he talked with Charlie Rose about
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAStockholm (dpa) – Rock legend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Literature laureate, will miss out on the December 10 award ceremony “due to pre-existing commitments,” the Swedish Academy said Wednesday. The US singer-songwriter wrote a personal letter to the Academy saying that, “due to pre-existing commitments, he is unable to travel to Stockholm in December,”
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsPresident-elect Donald Trump is not the only midtown Manhattan resident encountering problems with his transition game this week. So too is Saturday Night Live, which failed to consider the possibility of the erstwhile star of NBC’s The Apprentice becoming the 45th president. Who will SNL’s longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, install to impersonate the most bombastic
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFifty years after Star Trek first beamed onto U.S. television screens, fans continue to be fascinated by stories of behind-the-scenes dramas. Now handwritten notes written by Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, to be auctioned Thursday, are giving diehard Trekkies an inside look into some of the problems that plagued the cult hit in its infancy.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAColson Whitehead won the National Book Award in fiction on Wednesday for his bestselling novel and Oprah Book Club pick The Underground Railroad. His fellow winners that evening were Ibram X. Kendi in nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Daniel Borzutzky in poetry for The Performance of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USASupporters of President-elect Donald Trump are using online retailer Amazon to attack Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly through harsh reviews of her new book. More than 100 negative one-star reviews appeared on the Amazon page selling Kelly’s memoir “Settle For More,” within hours of its Tuesday release. Many of the comments came through a link
We didn’t want it darker, but we got it. Leonard Cohen is dead, right when we need him, right when we could use his wisdom and grace and spiritual sensibility the most. The man was always an enigma—a songwriter and poet who put out his first album at age 33 and headlined Coachella in his
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsNBA legends Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama named 21 recipients for the honor on Wednesday that included the three sports icons. The medals, the nation’s highest civilian honor a president can award, will be presented at the White
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Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAComedian Trevor Noah can’t recall the moment himself. But he says the scene in the Johannesburg delivery room when he was born was more than a bit uncomfortable. “I came out and there was just an akward pause,” recounts the host of The Daily Show. “All of these doctors are standing around, and there is
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast1606, Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro published by Faber and Faber, 2015. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When I picked this book up at Luton airport, as I was about to board a plane, I thought I was going to read a historical novel. I couldn’t have been more
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFox News anchor Megyn Kelly believes Roger Ailes would still be her boss today if former colleague Gretchen Carlson had not sued him for sexual harassment. Appearing Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the first stop on the tour for her new book “Settle for More,” Kelly noted that Fox News contracts include arbitration clauses
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Israeli actress Dana Ivgy will serve as a visiting lecturer at San Diego State University this spring. Ivgy, a multiple Israeli film award winner, will be in San Diego from Jan. 15 to May 5th. Ivgy is lecturing at San Diego State University through the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which is
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