Tag: humor

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play a high-ranking spy couple in Steven Soderbergh’s new film. Black Bag offers Bond-style globe-trotting intrigue and marital dramedy.

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At the height of his career, The New York Times called talk show host Joe Pyne “the ranking nuisance of broadcasting.”

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Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

Born March 13, 1925, Haynes was a drummer who liked to prod his fellow players. Over the course of his career, he played with Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Chick Corea and many others.

Butler, who died Feb. 20, was born in rural Miss., and had his first hit in 1958, singing lead with The Impressions. He later moved to Chicago and entered local politics. Originally broadcast in 2000.

The White Lotus star says she is prepared for any outcome. In this week’s Wild Card, Natasha Rothwell shares the advice she happily ignored and how she finds power in solitude.

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Subscribe to the belief that time is merely a construct, so who among us can ever really say “when” a new season of a television show will be available for viewing?

A Steven Soderbergh spy thriller, a Looney Tunes movie and a grisly comedy about a guy who can’t feel pain are all out this weekend.

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You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman finding her uncle’s body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also resurfaces old wounds — wounds the elders would much rather ignore. It’s a powerful story about the silence that keeps families from breaking, but only in superficial ways, and with devastating consequences.

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The DoE is cutting staff, halting grants and pressuring schools on various administration priorities. Washington Post writer Laura Meckler discusses its destabilizing effect on the education system.