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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays, Lauren Hough

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'Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing' Isn't Just A Cult Memoir

9:41am April 15, 2021

by Ilana Masad

Essay after essay, it becomes clear that writer Lauren Hough is drawing parallels between the Family and good ol' fashioned American Exceptionalism in all its various facets.

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2021 Whiting Awards Honor 10 Soon-To-Be-Big Writers

7:45pm April 14, 2021

by Petra Mayer

The winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize honors emerging writers, with the aim of enabling them to concentrate full-time on their work.

Quo Vadis, Aida? dramatizes the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995. It is nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

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'Quo Vadis, Aida?' Asks: Where Does A Society Go After War Ends?

5:49pm April 14, 2021

by Bilal Qureshi

Jasmila Zbanic's Oscar-nominated film dramatizes the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. Aida is a former teacher working as a translator for U.N. forces.

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Tufts University became the first major university to strip the Sackler name from its buildings in 2019.

Journalist Investigates 'Crime Story' Of The Sackler Family And The Opioid Crisis

5:23pm April 14, 2021

by Terry Gross

Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe says the Sackler family has "thrown a lot of energy" into trying to thwart his reporting about the family's involvement in the opioid crisis.

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Laurie Anderson, an artist and performer whose work spans disciplines, channels her emotional past into transformative art.

Catching Up With Laurie Anderson, An Artist Always Ahead Of Her Time

8:25pm April 13, 2021

by Allyson McCabe

The versatile, eclectic multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has taken stock of her life's work, pursuing reissues and retrospectives while always forging ahead.

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Mank is a biopic about the man who wrote Citizen Kane. But there's also a woman in the story: Marion Davies, a silver screen star and mistress of William Randolph Heart. She's pictured above in 1932.

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Starring As A Starlet, Amanda Seyfried Shines As Marion Davies In 'Mank'

4:09pm April 13, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

To get into the role, Seyfried watched Davies' old movies, read her autobiography and listened to old scratchy recordings. She says playing the silver screen star was the ultimate dress-up dream.

Pacific Theatres And Arclight Cinemas Won't Be Reopening

4:09pm April 13, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

ArcLight is one of the theater chains most loved by filmmakers and film lovers. Shut for a year in the pandemic, ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres announced their locations will close for good.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. On 'The Black Church' And His Own Bargain With Jesus

1:44pm April 13, 2021

by Terry Gross

When he was 12, Gates made a bargain with Jesus in an attempt to save his mother's life. He talks about how that altered his own life, and his new book and PBS series, The Black Church.

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People wearing protective face masks walk by the closed Cinerama Dome theater during the coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Cinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses

12:31pm April 13, 2021

by Bob Mondello

With the closing of 300 screens, Hollywood laments the loss of the iconic Cinerama Dome; it opened in 1963 with the premiere of Stanley Kramer's wide-screen comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton

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'The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev' Is A Faux Music History That Rocks

11:39am April 13, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

Dawnie Walton's sly narrative is a story about music, race and family secrets that spans five decades, centering on an interracial rock duo who strike it big in the early '70s.