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Actor, humorist, author Nick Offerman gets set for an evening of music and mirth in Greensboro

7:00am October 27, 2023

Actor, humorist, and author Nick Offerman is best known as the character Ron Swanson on TV's Parks & Recreation which aired for seven seasons on NBC. This weekend he’ll perform an evening of deliberative talking, mirth, and music at the Tanger Center in Greensboro.

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Demi Singleton and Saniyya Sidney with Will Smith in King Richard.

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'King Richard' is a quintessential Will Smith movie, 30 years in the making

5:00am March 25, 2022

by Aisha Harris

For more than three decades the actor has cultivated a specific type of on-screen personality, from The Fresh Prince to King Richard.

Ed Asner arrives during the 82nd Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on March 7, 2010. Asner, the blustery but lovable Lou Grant in two successful television series, died at 91.

Ed Asner, Award-Winning Actor Who Played Lou Grant, Dies At 91

3:51pm August 29, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

Asner won seven Emmy awards over the course of his career and was outspoken about progressive causes.

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Best Actor Or Actress? Gender-Expansive Performers Are Forced To Choose

4:28pm July 14, 2021

by Melissa Block

There's a growing call for entertainment award categories to no longer be split by gender. Some nonbinary performers say these gendered divisions erase their identity.

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Veronica Cartwright And 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' Come To Triad

4:20pm January 09, 2020

by Eddie Garcia

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Om Puri at the New York premiere of The Hundred-Foot Journey on Aug. 4, 2014.

Renowned Indian Actor Om Puri Dies At 66

6:27pm January 06, 2017

by Laura Wagner

Puri began acting in Indian art house cinema in the 1970s and soon branched into British and American films, including Gandhi in 1982 and Charlie Wilson's War in 2007.