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In Love With Teen Lit: Remembering The 'Paperback Crush' Of The '80s And '90s

6:04pm December 03, 2018

by Ailsa Chang

As a preteen Gabrielle Moss devoured books in "The Baby-Sitters Club" and "Sweet Valley High" series. She recently reread them for "nostalgic stress relief" and ended up writing a book on the genre.

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Chef Samin Nosrat Shares The Power Of 'Salt Fat Acid Heat' On Netflix

2:20pm December 03, 2018

by Sam Briger

Nosrat says there are four elements in cooking, and if you understand how they work, you can make delicious food. She travels the world to learn more about those elements in her new four-part show.

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Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a musician struggling with addiction, in A Star Is Born.

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Bradley Cooper Learned To Sing, Direct And Talk Deeply For 'A Star Is Born'

2:19pm December 03, 2018

by Terry Gross

Cooper makes his directorial debut with a remake of the classic film about a doomed love affair. He hope his version presents a fuller portrait of the iconic characters.

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Music Of All Kinds Was Celebrated At 41st Kennedy Center Honors

6:56am December 03, 2018

by Lynn Neary

A number of celebrities paid tribute Sunday night to the five Kennedy Center honorees: Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, Philip Glass, Cher, and the team behind the hit Broadway show Hamilton.

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Margot Robbie stars as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Mary Queen of Scots. "Right now we're making a push — I feel more than I've ever experienced — to have more women in leadership roles," Robbie says.

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The Cost Of Being Queen: 'Mary' Explores The Sacrifices Of Women In Power

7:53am December 02, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Margot Robbie is Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots. "We re-examine history as a way of understanding what's happening in our present time, and where we're heading in the future," she says.

Matthew Macfadyen (right) and Stephen Mangan played Jeeves and Wooster, respectively, in Perfect Nonsense, a 2013 stage production. The characters were first created by comic author P.G. Wodehouse.

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Jeeves And Wooster, But Make It A Modern Spy Novel

7:53am December 02, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Ben Shott has taken the iconic P.G. Wodehouse comic characters (with the blessing of the Wodehouse estate) and twisted "five degrees to starboard" in his new novel Jeeves and the King of Clubs.

How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie

7:04am December 02, 2018

by Rachel D. Cohen

In Liyana, filmmakers let kids make up the story. The hybrid documentary/animated film has earned prizes, raves — and a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, by Matthias Enard

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Tell Them Of 'Battles, Kings,' And Michelangelo On The Bosporus

7:00am December 02, 2018

by Juan Vidal

Mathias Énard's novel — newly translated from French — imagines what would have happened if Michelangelo had accepted an offer from the Ottoman ruler to design a bridge across the Golden Horn.

Author Glory Edim uses her literary society to signal boost emerging black women writers.

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'Well-Read Black Girl' Turns Books Into Community

6:00am December 02, 2018

by Andrea Y. Henderson

With her new anthology, Glory Edim says she wants to "capture the energy and vibrancy of what it means to be a black woman in the literary space."

Peter Farrelly appears onstage at the 2018 British Academy Britannia Awards on Oct. 26, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Not My Job: We Quiz 'Something About Mary' Director Peter Farrelly On Dairy

11:30am December 01, 2018

Before Farrelly directed Green Book, he became famous, along with his brother Bobby, for raucous comedies such as There's Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber.

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