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Television Review: ‘Smash,’ on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:34:04 PM CST
“Smash,” NBC’s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James).
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NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to ‘Smash’
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:07:19 AM CST
Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting “Smash,” a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs.
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Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart: The State of White America’
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:27:22 AM CST
The political scientist Charles Murray has a new book, “Coming Apart,” which depicts members of white elites as hypocrites living in a bubble and the white working class as succumbing to moral decay.
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Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself
Monday, February 6, 2012 5:05:18 AM CST
Anne Sebba looks at the Duchess of Windsor in a new biography; Scotty Bowers’s memoir reveals Hollywood’s sexual secrets.
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Music Review: Prism Quartet and Music From China at Weill Recital Hall
Monday, February 6, 2012 1:43:05 AM CST
The Prism Quartet and Music From China performed new pieces by Lei Liang, Fang Man, Huang Ruo and Bright Sheng at Weill Recital Hall on Friday night.
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Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:42:17 PM CST
The Collegiate Chorale presented Michael Tippett’s oratorio “A Child of Our Time” and Bruckner’s Te Deum at Carnegie Hall.
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Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00:09 AM CST
The Juilliard Opera presented some rarely heard Rossini, two of his earliest one-act comic operas, “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” (“The Marriage Contract”) and “La Scala di Seta” (“The Silken Ladder”).
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New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:02:08 AM CST
“Kisses on the Bottom,” an album of standards by Paul McCartney, is a jaunty tip of the hat to the pop music of his parents’ generation.
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Music Review: Super Bowl — No Longer an Upset: Madonna Acts Her Age
Monday, February 6, 2012 2:46:37 AM CST
Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, with a giant supporting cast and a downright benign stance.
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The Carpetbagger: May the Best Actor Get the Most Attention
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:57:32 AM CST
The contenders in the best-actor Oscar race aren't campaigning, unless you count all those television and press appearances this week.
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The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Terry Moran
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:53:17 AM CST
"Nightline" anchor Terry Moran shares his Oscar ballot.
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The Carpetbagger: Animators and Art Directors Pick Their Winners
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:00:27 AM CST
"Rango," "Hugo," "Harry Potter" and "Dragon Tattoo" took home specialty awards over the weekend.
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ArtsBeat: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children? 'Simpsons' Toys Banned in Iran
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:25:58 AM CST
An Iranian official said on Monday that dolls modeled on characters from "The Simpsons," including Bart, Homer and the other members of that Fox cartoon clan, were unacceptable displays of foreign culture and would be banned along with other popular Western toys.
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ArtsBeat: Abel Ferrara Says He's Making a Film About Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:10:50 AM CST
Abel Ferrara, the director of "King of New York" and "Bad Lieutenant," said he had cast Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani to play Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair in a film about their lives during a notorious sex scandal. But Mr. Ferrara's producer was less certain that this would be his next project.
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ArtsBeat: Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin to Close
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:30:52 AM CST
After 15 years, Deutsche Guggenheim, an outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, is closing at the end of the year.
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54 Below, Restaurant-Nightclub Under the Former Studio 54
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:37:17 PM CST
The nightspot named 54 Below, a 160-seat space, is scheduled to open in early June with a two-week engagement by Patti LuPone.
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Television Review: Steven Van Zandt in Norwegian Netflix Series ‘Lilyhammer’
Monday, February 6, 2012 2:29:02 AM CST
“Lilyhammer,” starring Steven Van Zandt as a wiseguy in witness protection in Norway, is the first original series on Netflix and is available via streaming video.
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Music Review: ‘Biophilia’ Live at the New York Hall of Science
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:23:05 PM CST
The first night of Björk’s six-show residency at the New York Hall of Science included a live spectacle for the album “Biophilia,” with towering pendulum harps, multimedia visuals, Tesla coils and an Icelandic choir.
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ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:53:34 AM CST
Reviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.
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Dance Review: Ratmansky’s ‘Russian Seasons’ From New York City Ballet
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00:14 AM CST
New York City Ballet’s program “À la Russe” included “Russian Seasons,” “Allegro Brillante,” “Zakouski” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.”
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Bridge: Houston Lone Star Regional’s Bracketed Teams - Bridge
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:05:17 AM CST
The Houston Lone Star Regional ran from Jan. 20 to Sunday. The diagramed deal, from a bracketed knockout teams, featured an instructive point.
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John H. Davis, Chronicler of Kennedys and Others, Dies at 82
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:26:51 AM CST
Mr. Davis’s eight books included tomes on the Kennedys, the Guggenheims, the Gambinos and the Bouviers, to whom he was related.
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Steven Leiber, Dealer in Artists’ Ephemera, Dies at 54
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:30:05 PM CST
Mr. Leiber founded a San Francisco gallery that is a prime source for brochures, posters, fliers and the like produced by artists.
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The Scoop: New York City iPhone App
Friday, September 24, 2010 8:20:32 AM CST
Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.
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The Week Ahead: Feb. 5 — 11
Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:30:09 AM CST
A selection of cultural events this week.
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‘The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center’
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:47:18 PM CST
The vast collection of music, film, videotapes and photographs collected by the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is being digitized for wider dissemination.