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Natasha Lyonne stars in ‘Poker Face,’ a Peacock howdunit
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Known for her wise-cracking, quick delivery, Natasha Lyonne’s newest role in the Peacock series ” Poker Face “ grants her an opportunity to play a character with a personality trait she’s never played before. Lyonne’s character, Charlie, likes people. Charlie’s still got zingers, but Lyonne says the character is partly inspired ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Matt Johnson’s ‘BlackBerry’ to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival
By Noel Ransome, The Canadian Press on January 23rd, 2023
TORONTO – A Canadian film about the immense popularity and eventual combustion of the BlackBerry smartphone will have its world premiere in Berlin next month. The latest project from Toronto-born filmmaker Matt Johnson is among the 18 films in the competition program at the Berlin International Film Festival. Titled “BlackBerry,” the film follows the rise ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Fall On Your Knees’ play should make you forget there’s a book: Ann-Marie MacDonald
By Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press on January 23rd, 2023
TORONTO – It’s taken a decade to wrestle Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sweeping historical novel “Fall On Your Knees” into a theatrical production and now that its tortured Cape Breton characters are being reborn on the stage, so, too, comes their demise on the page. MacDonald says she hopes the ambitious two-part, six-hour, music-driven show eclipses the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lorne Michaels of ‘SNL’ to be honored at PEN America gala
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – This year’s PEN America Literary Gala will be notable for the presence of “Saturday Night Live.” PEN, the literary and free expression organization, is giving “SNL” creator-executive Lorne Michaels its PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which in previous years has gone to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Patti Smith among others. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
PARIS (AP) – The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker — who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s — was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism. With her caressing velvets and silks, embroideries, sequins and tiny silver studs, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri may ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In ’20 Days in Mariupol’ doc, the horrors of war illuminated
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov had just broken out of Mariupol after covering the first 20 days of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian city and was feeling guilty about leaving. He and his colleagues, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, had been the last journalists there, sending ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stage adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’ headed to Broadway
By The Canadian Press on January 23rd, 2023
NEW YORK – The stage adaptation of Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room” is headed to Broadway. The tale of a young boy and his mother held in captivity was first performed on stage in 2017, and came to London, Ont., and Toronto last year. The play features songs by Kathryn Joseph and Cora Bissett ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean Penn’s Ukraine documentary to premiere in Berlin
By The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
BERLIN (AP) – Sean Penn’s film about the war in Ukraine, “Superpower,” will have its world premier at this year’s Berlin film festival, organizers said Monday. The documentary will run outside the main competition, which features 18 movies this year including John Trengrove’s “Manodrome” with Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody. Organizers said the Berlinale will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paris couture season kicks off with frivolity, seaborne life
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2023
PARIS (AP) – Schiaparelli kicked off haute couture season Monday with plenty of glamorous frivolity and exaggerated silhouettes ahead of the highly anticipated show by powerhouse Christian Dior. SCHIAPARELLI Schiaparelli also offered surreal takes on classics harking back to the 1930s heyday of house founder Elsa Schiaparelli. The mood at the first spring-summer couture show ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Community rallies behind bid to preserve home of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on January 23rd, 2023
HALIFAX – Prominent members of Nova Scotia’s Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province’s first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Originally from Trinidad, Ligoure graduated in 1916 with a medical degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fans, celebs gather at Graceland to mourn Lisa Marie Presley
By Adrian Sainz, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2023
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley, was remembered during a funeral service Sunday as a loving mother and an “old soul” who endured tragedy but persevered as a dedicated protector of her father’s legacy as a rock “˜n’ roll pioneer and pop icon. More than ... Read More »
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