How can you mend a broken heart? In honor of “Wicked” arriving in theaters, here’s one about that much-hyped musical: Assumption: “Wicked” is an undeniable best picture contender. Answer: True At the Los Angeles premiere of “Wicked,” producer Marc Platt, who has been shepherding the project since producing the 2003 Broadway show, struck an early campaign tone. “Wicked” is undeniably …
We’re a week out from Thanksgiving, still figuring out how much turkey to buy, how a bird that size will possibly fit into our oven and whether we might use our next-door neighbor’s oven as a backup. Answer: True Karla Sofía Gascón stars in Jacques Audiard’s unusual musical “Emilia Pérez.” It’s usually silly to declare races over this early, but …
The New China Hand certificate given to Winston Lord, special assistant to President Nixon's security advisor Henry Kissinger, upon the completion of the February 1972 trip. CHINA DAILY "Back in the '70s China was a minor partner in the cooperation," said Lord, who went on all the nine trips Kissinger made to China in the 1970s and was on every …
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By the mid-1970s, Peter Bogdanovich was riding high in Hollywood with a string of critically acclaimed films and living in an estate with Cybill Shepherd, whom he’d nurtured to stardom in “The Last Picture Show.” By the next decade, it was all gone. Revered as the director of touchstone 1970s movies such as “The Last Picture Show,” “What’s Up, Doc?” …