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Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall have a drink at Musso & Frank Grill in 1957.

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Celebrities Need Comfort Food Too: A Hollywood Hangout Turns 100

12:50pm May 01, 2019

by Susan Stamberg

Musso & Frank Grill opened before there was a Hollywood sign. Since 1919, stars, studio heads and writers have settled into the restaurant's red leather banquettes to negotiate, gossip, and eat.

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Varys (Conleth Hill) and Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) commiserate over how very, very safe they are, down in the Winterfell crypts, because they are dumb.

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'Game Of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 3: 'At Least We're Already In A Crypt'

8:46am April 29, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The Battle of Winterfell is finally here, and it's the most brutal episode of the series yet — one that comes with a body count and a surprise, truly shattering conclusion.

Chris Evans as Captain America in Avengers: Endgame. And yes, Cap, these are apparently the real numbers.

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The Record-Breaking Box Office Of 'Avengers: Endgame,' By The (Huge) Numbers

3:03pm April 28, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Nobody is surprised that Avengers: Endgame is a hit, but even by superhero standards, it's had an enormous debut weekend, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Margaret Trudeau, once in the limelight as a socialite and Canada's first lady, is now set to present her own life story in the one-person show Certain Woman of an Age.

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Margaret Trudeau Takes Center Stage — This Time, On Purpose

5:29pm April 27, 2019

by Scott Simon

A wife and then a mother to Canadian prime ministers, she addresses her time in the public eye and her battles with mental illness in an upcoming one-woman show called Certain Woman Of An Age.

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With Final 'Avengers' Movie Out, The Wait Ends For Marvel Superfan

5:14pm April 27, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Marvel superfan Tony Mitchell about Avengers: Endgame, which has been breaking box office records this week.

The comedian Brian Regan, pictured here in his Netflix special Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, has earned a reputation as a comic's comic.

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Comedian Brian Regan Sees The Dinosaurs In Everyday Life

9:50am April 26, 2019

by Elizabeth Blair

He's a favorite of other comics — a physical, observational and airtight performer who works "clean." All that helps explain why families make up a good portion of his massive audience.

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Thanos' spaceship looms in Avengers: Endgame, only the latest blockbuster to break banks and burst bladders, with a run time of 3 hours, 2 minutes.

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Blockbuster Films Keep Getting Longer; How And Why Did We Get Here?

6:10am April 26, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Critic Chris Klimek crunches the numbers to examine how and why blockbuster films like Avengers: Endgame grew to such great, bladder-busting lengths.

Kristen Stewart plays a real-life literary fraud in JT LeRoy.

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'JT LeRoy': An Infamous Literary Fraud, Seen Through The Eyes Of The Fraudsters

5:00pm April 25, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Laura Dern and Kristin Stewart star in the real-life tale of a frustrated author who created a false identity that captivated the literary world.

Be Natural:The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché tells the story of the first female film auteur.

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Auteur! Auteur!: 'Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché'

5:00pm April 25, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Pamela D. Green's enlightening documentary adds to the already strong case that Guy-Blaché was the first female auteur of cinema, though in doing so it strives to connect a few too many dots.

I ... was Iron Man: A stranded-in-space Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) shares a somber moment with his suit's A.I.

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Mourning Has Broken Them: 'Avengers: Endgame'

12:34pm April 24, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The culmination of the Avengers franchise proves a remarkably intimate and somber affair until it concludes with a climactic battle more thrilling than anything superhero cinema has delivered to date.