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'Rectify' to get second season on Sundance
Sundance Channel's first original series, "Rectify," has received glowing reviews for its short season of just six episodes. So it's good news for fans that the legal drama has been renewed for a longer, 10-episode second season. "Rectify" stars Aden...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Netflix Inc., Clayne Crawford, Mad Men (tv program), Aden Young
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Val Kilmer taking his offbeat Mark Twain show on the road
Although it seems like Hal Holbrook has owned the role of Mark Twain for decades, another actor has staked a theatrical claim to the white-haired novelist and wit. Val Kilmer has been working on "Citizen Twain," a solo play in which he plays the writer,...
Tags: Val Kilmer, Heat (movie), Top Gun (movie), Arts and Culture, Kirk Douglas
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Review: 'Promised Land' begins well but never quite catches hold
"Promised Land" certainly sounds promising. It's got a strong cast and an intriguing premise that has the added bonus of real-world relevance. But, good intentions and good work aside, the film flounders before it reaches its conclusion. The film, which...
Tags: Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Promised Land (movie), Movies, Dave Eggers
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Virginia: Follow Lincoln (and 'Lincoln') in Richmond, Petersburg
RICHMOND, Va. — Below the spaghetti-works of Interstate 95, beside a canal where excursion boats are the only watercraft, I try to imagine a group of African American workers on the day after Union soldiers brought freedom to Richmond. They were...
Tags: Politics, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Abraham Lincoln, Tourism and Leisure, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Review: Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' a towering achievement
Hollywood's most successful director turns on a dime and delivers his most restrained, interior film. A celebrated playwright shines an illuminating light on no more than a sliver of a great man's life. A brilliant actor surpasses even himself and makes...
Tags: Politics, Lincoln (movie, 2012), John Williams, Daniel Day-Lewis, James Spader
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Broad Stage season includes Placido Domingo, Shakespeare's Globe
The Broad Stage's 2012-13 season, which will be announced Wednesday, will feature appearances by a number of prominent performers including actor Hal Holbrook, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and thespians from Shakespeare's Globe in a production of "Hamlet."...
Tags: Placido Domingo, Arts and Culture, Helen Hunt, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Twain
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Paul Bogart dies at 92; Emmy-winning TV director
Paul Bogart, an Emmy Award-winning director who launched his career during the days of live television in New York and later was a prolific director on the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," has died. He was 92. Bogart died of age-related...
Tags: Carroll O'Connor, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., The Defenders (tv program), Jean Stapleton, World War II (1939-1945)
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Last minute gift ideas: Memorable theater books
Culture MonsterTheater book suggestions for the holidays.... -
Jason Alexander to receive Actors Fund award
Culture Monster"Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander is to receive the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Actors Fund.... -
Val Kilmer wants to make his Mark (Twain)
Culture MonsterFew actors own a role the way Hal Holbrook owns Mark Twain. The Tony- and Emmy-winning actor, who recently turned 87, has played the humorist in his one-man stage play “Mark Twain Tonight!” since 1954, logging thousands of performances and... -
In rotation: 'The Rolling Stones on the Ed Sullivan Show'
Pop & HissThose who know of the Rolling Stones' early history on “The Ed Sullivan Show” are most likely familiar with their 1967 performance of “Let's Spend the Night Together,” on which they were required to change the chorus to “Let'... -
Will 'Harry Potter' finally get some respect from Oscar voters?
The Big Picture"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2" may be the most critically admired movie in America but that doesn't mean it will translate into Oscar glory....
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