Month: January 2023

The White Lotus star won the 1985 Best Actor Oscar for Amadeus. “I became full of myself,” he says, and began turning down film roles — after a while, the phone stopped ringing.

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The Fox News host attacked the minor brand changes as “woke” and declared that M&M’s wouldn’t stop until “you’re totally turned off.” Maya Rudolph will replace the cartoons as M&M’s spokeswoman.

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War movies are big, first-time acting nominees had a great morning, and inclusion at the Oscars is still an uphill battle. All this, plus the big showing for the unconventional nominations leader.

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Best picture nods include “All Quiet on the Western Front”; “Avatar: The Way of Water”; “The Banshees of Inisherin”; “Elvis”; “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; “The Fabelmans”; and “Tár”

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The No. 1 prerequisite to being rich is having money. People forget this!

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding its much-anticipated hearing into Live Nation and competition in the ticketing industry. Swifties are among those planning to rally at the Capitol and online.

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U.S. authorities announced that the fresco depicting Hercules and dozens of other trafficked objects, which ended up in private collections in the United States, would go back to Italy.

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Virginia-based musician James Goodson — aka Dazy — sings most often in a voice that’s high and urgent. His version of power pop is noisy, ragged, full of feedback and clatter — and irresistible.

On my fortieth birthday, my toddler gave to me . . . a wake-up time of five-thirty!

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls “one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history.”

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