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James Gray brings a film to Cannes five years after being booed
CANNES, France — For the better part of two decades, director James Gray has been making textured dramas about people, often immigrants and their children, who experience all manner of frustration and struggle. It prepared him well for the events of...
Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Festive Events, Film Festivals, Gwyneth Paltrow, Movies
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Cannes Film Review: 'The Immigrant'
VarietyCementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 in "The Immigrant," a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of the American experience. This rich, beautifully rendered film boasts an arrestingly...Tags: The Godfather: Part II (movie), Guillaume Canet, Movies, Migration, Feminism
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Andrews Living Arts stages musical "Rent" outside
Staff WriterJust when you are thinking about giving up on Andrews Living Arts Studio’s production of “Rent,” one of the singers comes on and just rocks it … rocks it hard. And that keeps you plugged in to this somewhat wobbly,...Tags: Tony Awards, Arts, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fort Lauderdale, Awards and Prizes
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Jewish music flavors a new production
St. Louis Post-DispatchMaybe you don't know where klezmer music comes from. But you probably know where it went. Think of the sinuous clarinet solo that pierces Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing," right through its swinging heart. Or think of another big hit of the same era,...Tags: Romania, Religion and Belief, Yale Repertory Theatre, Music, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Cannes Films On the Critical List
VarietySCOTT FOUNDAS "All Is Lost" (J.C. Chandor) Chandor, who made an impressive debut with Margin Call in 2011, ventures far from Wall Street â and dry land â for this followup, starring Robert Redford as a man lost at sea in a movie that purports to have...Tags: Film Festivals, Life of Pi (movie), Immigration, Arnaud Desplechin, Joel Coen
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Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist
Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...
Tags: Poetry, Arts, Celebrities, Robert Downey Jr., Stroke
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Biology, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Science and Technology, International Military Interventions
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Dr. Thomas Ruggieri, treated members of religious orders
NewsdayDr. Thomas Ruggieri, a Port Jefferson internist known for dispensing free treatment to clergy and members of religious orders, died April 30 in Mather Memorial Hospital in the North Shore village. He was 76. The cause of death was complications...Tags: Mount Sinai, Religion and Belief, Radiation Therapy, Adelphi University, Roman Catholicism
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To do Wednesday: Tate Stevens, Rayya Elias and "Jewish Broadway"
Music Tate Stevens: The 2012 "X Factor" champ will perform Wednesday night at Renegades Country Bar and Grill in West Palm Beach (600 Village Blvd.). The family-friendly 6 p.m. show will include a bounce house, cotton candy and remote-controlled cars....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Literature, Coral Gables, The X Factor (tv program), Music
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Will this be Bangladesh's Triangle fire moment?
Last week, more than 300 people were killed in the collapse of a building that housed clothing manufacturers in the Dhaka region of Bangladesh. Many dozens more may be buried in the rubble. Just five months earlier, 112 workers died in a factory fire,...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Clothing and Textiles Industry, St. Joseph's College, Greenwich Village, Bangladesh
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Seth Meyers, Hannibal Buress come home for 'Just For Laughs Chicago' in June
RedEyeSeth Meyers and Hannibal Buress are coming home for the fifth annual TBS Just for Laughs Chicago comedy festival in June. Evanston native Meyers, who runs the "Saturday Night Live" writers' room and "Weekend Update," is one of the festival's anchors--get...Tags: The House Bunny (movie), Wanted (movie), The Tonight Show (tv program), Television, Television Industry
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Perez to headline UPJ commencement
Activist, Academy Award-nominated actress and Emmy-nominated choreographer Rosie Perez is to speak at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s 41st annual Commencement ceremony. Perez is a vocal advocate for many causes, and has spoken...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Bronx (New York City), Hispanic Heritage Month, AIDS, HIV
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