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Polanski's Venus seduces on last day of Cannes festival
ReutersCANNES (Reuters) - An avenging Venus settling the psychological and sexual score is the star of acclaimed director Roman Polanski's "La Venus a la Fourrure" ("Venus in Fur"), one of the Cannes film festival's two final movies in main competition to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mathieu Amalric, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Reviews
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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: Arts and Culture, Ellis Island, David Letterman, Film Festivals, Joaquin Phoenix
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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: Arts and Culture, Tony Awards, Entertainment Events, Arts, Fort Lauderdale
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Period dramas premiere on day 10 of Cannes film festival
Reuters* "The Immigrant," "Michael Kohlhaas" compete for Palme d'Or * Director James Gray says America needs immigrants * Danish star Mads Mikkelsen on quest for vengeance in film By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 24 (Reuters) - America's immigration debate...Tags: Arts and Culture, Ellis Island, Mads Mikkelsen, Illegal Immigrants, Film Festivals
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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, Movies, Arts and Culture, Manhattan (New York City), Jack Kerouac
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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, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, Medical Specialization, Ewing's sarcoma
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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: Arts and Culture, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, The X Factor (tv program)
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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: St. Joseph's College, New York City, Consumer Goods Industries, Greenwich Village, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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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: IFC (tv network), Arts and Culture, Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher (tv program), Bored to Death (tv program)
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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: Manhattan (New York City), Bronx (New York City), Barack Obama, University of Pittsburgh, AIDS
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No clouds, no sun for Pat DiNizio and the Smithereens
Pat DiNizio likes things real. He buys his music from Vintage Vinyl in Fords, N.J. He buys his meat from John's, a family-owned butcher in Scotch Plains. He likes the "ritual" walk from his Lower East Side apartment at Seventh and A to the nearby...
Tags: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Mojo Tour (2010), Meyer Amphitheatre, Greenwich Village, Entertainment Events, The White Stripes (music group)
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The Best of "Kosher Style" in Connecticut
Katz's Delicatessen, on Manhattan's East Houston Street, is the most nostalgic of New York's Jewish delis and a destination for food tourists and American Jews searching for their roots. Jared Goldstein of jaredthenyctourguide.com puts Katz's as the...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Waterbury, Vernon (Tolland, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Ridge
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