Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, and their publicists are alleging civil extortion, defamation and a slew of contract-related claims about the film It Ends With Us.
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Author: Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.[1]
The arts represent an outlet of expression that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. As such, the arts are a physical manifestation of the internal creative impulse.
Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, and their publicists are alleging civil extortion, defamation and a slew of contract-related claims about the film It Ends With Us.
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Author: Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn’t a lot of plot, but director Mike Leigh builds his stories from the details and detritus of daily life.
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Author: Justin Chang
Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.
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Author: Dave Davies
We are three weeks into 2025, it’s time for some fresh podcasts. The NPR One team has podcast recommendations from across public media to start your year off right.
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Author: Jessica Green
Maine Public reporter Ari Snider heads out on a couple of Maine’s lakes to explore the burgeoning sport of “wild ice skating.” (Story aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 16, 2025.)
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Author: Ari Snider
The Apple TV+ series emerged as an engrossing puzzle box of a show when it first debuted three years ago. And it just got even more surreal.
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Author: Eric Deggans
The Australian Open’s animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put Simpsons on the football field and superheroes on ice skates.
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Author: Rachel Treisman
Everything old is new again, it seems, and there’s no reason that wouldn’t apply to werewolves. We now have a chance to enjoy a new Wolf Man starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. Directed by Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man), it maintains that sometimes the monster is inside you all along. Plus, we take a minute to remember director David Lynch.
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Author: Linda Holmes
During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story.
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Author: Bob Mondello
His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.
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Author: Kyle Norris