‘Barbie’ Is Adapted? Let’s Fix the Oscar Screenplay Categories.
There’s a way to classify screenplays for Oscar consideration that would reward creativity and make much more sense. Unlike the current system.
There’s a way to classify screenplays for Oscar consideration that would reward creativity and make much more sense. Unlike the current system.
The New York Public Library’s grand research library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is home to Virginia Woolf’s walking stick, Charles Dickens’s desk chair and the original Winnie-the-Pooh. But one evening last week, a crowd in one of the library’s elegant public rooms was milling around a goofier treasure: an Abraham Lincoln-themed pie safe….
When Melanie’s “Brand New Key” debuted in 1971, some people were confused. What did the singer, who died on Tuesday at 76, mean when she sang about having a brand-new pair of roller skates and someone else having a brand-new key? Melanie told one interviewer that she wrote the song in 15 minutes, after ending…
Then there’s the much more entertaining murder mystery, in which one or two people have been killed, or perhaps none. A priest once posted to Kilkinure is found dead in his Dublin home, and suspicion falls on the protesting women. At about the same time, Lorna hits her head in a pub and wakes up…
Jan. 23, 2024, 8:52 a.m. ET Jan. 23, 2024, 8:52 a.m. ET Lily Gladstone as an Osage bride in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”Credit…Apple TV+ Lily Gladstone, a star of the Martin Scorsese epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was nominated for the best actress Oscar on Tuesday, making her the first Native American person…
Toward the end of World War II, Ms. Irvine met a naval officer at Delmonico’s restaurant when he was on leave; they married in 1947. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Sullivan, Ms. Irvine is survived by a son, who requested anonymity for himself and his father, whose name he shares, and two grandchildren. Ms….
“We were sharecroppers, got up real early and would play for about 15 or 20 minutes, then walk across the street and I’d have a doughnut and he would have his coffee,” Mr. Sonnier recalled in the 88 Miles West interview. “We shared something very special, and then he’d drive me to school.” A young…