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Better call Bob Odenkirk Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year
By The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Award-winning actor, writer and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk, perhaps best known as shady lawyer Saul Goodman on “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” was named 2023 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Thursday. Odenkirk is scheduled to receive his Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Terence Blanchard gets yearlong Lincoln Center celebration
By Ronald Blum, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Terence Blanchard, the first Black composer whose work has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera, will be given a yearlong celebration at Lincoln Center starting in March. The Met, New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Film at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School and The New York Public Library for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Detroit museum ‘blameless’ in van Gogh dispute, judge says
By Ed White, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
DETROIT (AP) – A judge heard arguments Thursday over control of a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh and said he hoped the dispute could be settled without entangling a Detroit museum. There was no immediate decision about the future of the painting, “The Novel Reader,” which is on loan to the Detroit Institute of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!ABC News’ Cecilia Vega appointed ’60 Minutes’ correspondent
By The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Cecilia Vega, more recently ABC’s chief White House correspondent, is joining the CBS TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes,” called Vega a “sensational reporter and storyteller,” in the Thursday announcement. Vega said in the statement that the appointment was a “dream come true.” Vega will start ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At Lunar New Year, desserts can be customary or ‘cute-ified’
By Terry Tang, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
Every Lunar New Year without fail, Kat Lieu’s mother would make her steamed nian gao, which is a sweet rice – or mochi – cake. It was a tasty tradition of having dessert for breakfast. The Seattle-based author of the “Modern Asian Baking at Home” cookbook and founder of the Subtle Asian Baking online group ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alec Baldwin to be charged with manslaughter in set shooting
By Morgan Lee, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed on a New Mexico movie set, prosecutors announced Thursday, citing a “criminal disregard for safety.” Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies issued a statement announcing the charges ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Louis Vuitton menswear channels digital age in Paris show
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
PARIS (AP) – Singer RosalÃa stunned guests at Louis Vuitton’s digital age-themed menswear show in Paris on Friday with a surprise reveal in shades and hooded jacket atop a vintage 1980s yellow sedan. The boundary-breaking Spanish star delivered an electrifying vocal performance, delving in and out of a childhood movie set co-created by Michel Gondry, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AP Top 25 Movies, by the numbers: From dollars to donkeys
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
The films in the inaugural AP Top 25 Movies ranking yield a host of numbers, facts, figures and trivia if examined perhaps a little too closely. Here’s a look at the money, the minutes, the men and women, the minutiae and the many, many animals involved in the best movies of 2022. LARGEST WORLDWIDE BOX ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prosecutors to announce decision in shooting by Alec Baldwin
By Morgan Lee, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The Santa Fe district attorney will announce Thursday whether charges will be brought in the fatal 2021 film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal of the Western “Rust.” Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said the announcement will come in a statement and on social ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Penguin Classics, Marvel to issue new editions of 3 comics
By The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords to new editions of three famed Marvel Comics series. Penguin Classics is teaming with Marvel on Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, which already includes “Black Panther,” “Captain America” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Three new books will be out Sept. 12: ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dance, geometry merge at Paris menswear week
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press on January 19th, 2023
PARIS (AP) – Dance, theater and geometry merged in Thursday’s installment of Paris menswear week – as all eyes looked toward Louis Vuitton’s fall-winter spectacle. Here are some highlights for fall-winter 2023-24 collections: ISSEY MIYAKE GOES COMPLEX, BRIGHT A writhing dance troupe performed on the runway against a backdrop of optically striped lighting, which moved ... Read More »
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