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Grammy winner SZA performs onstage at Spotify's Night of Music party at Anaheim Convention Center on June 25, 2022. SZA's Kill Bill is among the new round of songs to be removed from TikTok.

SZA, Doja Cat songs now also being removed on TikTok

6:17pm February 27, 2024

by Elizabeth Blair

TikTok and Universal Music Group still haven't come to an agreement about artists' compensation and AI-generated recordings. Now TikTok must start removing songs from UMPG, Universal's publishing arm.

Enzo Vogrincic as Numa in Society of the Snow, one of five films nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature.

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Oscars guide: We map out the 5 films nominated for best international feature

4:01pm February 27, 2024

by Glen Weldon

They range in themes, languages and political urgency, but this year's stellar five nominees for the Best International Feature Film Oscar are each deserving of your time for their distinct pleasures.

Anna Sawai plays translator Toda Mariko in the new FX series Shōgun.

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Sex, violence, 'Game of Thrones'-style power grabs — the new 'Shōgun' has it all

1:24pm February 27, 2024

by David Bianculli

In 1980, NBC's Shōgun miniseries told the story of an English sea pilot's adventures in Japan in the year 1600. Now, FX's remake is even more thought-provoking and stunning than the original.

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Busy Philipps attends the Mean Girls premiere in New York City on Jan. 8, 2024.

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She missed out on 'Mean Girls' 20 years ago — but Busy Philipps got a second chance

1:24pm February 27, 2024

by Ann Marie Baldonado

Philipps plays Mrs. George, a "cool mom" seeking the approval of her teen daughter in the new movie musical version of the 2004 film. Philipps got her start as a teen on the series Freaks and Geeks.

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Delbert Anderson is a jazz musician from northern New Mexico.

This Navajo musician's song lasts four-and-a-half years

5:42am February 27, 2024

by Clark Adomaitis

A Navajo musician has begun performing a song that will last as long as the Navajo Long Walk, the forced removal of the tribe from their desert homelands in the 1860s.

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Tommy Orange's 'Wandering Stars' is a powerful follow up to 'There There'

5:00am February 27, 2024

by Heller McAlpin

An eloquent indictment of the effects of the massacre, dislocation and forced assimilation of Native Americans, it is also a heartfelt paean to the importance of family and of ancestors' stories.

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A stranger jumped into action when a 92-year-old started to be dragged by a car

12:59am February 27, 2024

Ben Gomes was ready for the worst when he learned his 92-year-old mother had been dragged by a car. But a stranger saved his mother from a much worse accident.

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Revisiting 'The Holdovers,' which is up for an Oscar along with actor Paul Giamatti

6:29pm February 26, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Paul Giamatti plays a 1970s prep-school teacher reluctantly supervising students with nowhere to go for the Christmas holidays in Alexander Payne's dramedy, The Holdovers.

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Cognitive neuroscientist Charan Ranganath says the human brain isn't programmed to remember everything. Rather, it's designed to "carry what we need and to deploy it rapidly when we need it."

When is forgetting normal — and when is it worrisome? A neuroscientist weighs in

2:25pm February 26, 2024

by Terry Gross

Charan Ranganath recently wrote an op-ed about President Biden's memory gaffes. He says forgetting is a normal part of aging. His new book is Why We Remember.

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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Philip Gefter

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Dishy-yet-earnest, 'Cocktails' revisits the making of 'Virginia Woolf'

2:25pm February 26, 2024

by John Powers

Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha traces the evolution of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — from Broadway sensation, to Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

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