Month: October 2024

The new film Saturday Night attempts to capture the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the very first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Untried producer Lorne Michaels (played by Gabriel LaBelle) and his cast of complete unknowns prepare to make television history. At the same time, network suits breathe down their necks, and just about everything that can go wrong does.

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“My Unsung Hero” from the team at Hidden Brain tells the stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. Jackie Briggs’ hero approached her at a health conference in 2006.

Keret, who lives in Tel Aviv, reflects on the protests in Israel and the U.S. over the hostages and Gaza. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has left- and right-wing political views in his own family.

Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Grammy-winner Adam Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars.

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The citation commended Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

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The greatest challenge of all: accommodating her nascent bunions.

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Ali Abbasi’s new film The Apprentice shows ex-President Donald Trump’s years as a real estate businessman under the tutelage of lawyer Roy Cohn. The film coincides with Trump seeking another term.

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The word “basic” often gets thrown around to describe anything that’s mainstream, popular, frictionless, or otherwise inoffensive. But sometimes basic stuff is just what we crave, whether it’s a binge-watch, a popular song, or a pumpkin spice latte. It’s fall, so today we’re talking about what we’re calling… Pop Culture Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

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At 84 years old, Margaret Atwood’s new book Paper Boat is a collection of her poems spanning over six decades. She talked about the skepticism she faced at the beginning of her career.

The Succession actor plays lawyer Roy Cohn in a new film. Strong says U.S. distributors were reluctant to pick up The Apprentice because of “repercussions from a possible Trump administration.”

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