Lana Del Rey’s sprawling and obsessive new LP — “the ninth studio album,” as its cover describes it in a flourish of self-mythologizing graphic design — is the one where this great American collage artist begins cut-and-pasting herself. Known since she emerged over a decade ago for alluding to or …
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Scratch the surface of a Skittles and, wow, you will find so much more than a chewy fruit-flavored sugar bomb. The shiny candy is a bit like a Rorschach test; you see what you want to see in those rainbow-colored morsels. In 2016, for example, Donald Trump Jr. looked at …
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Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot … —Joni Mitchell It seemed like old times at my favorite Hollywood restaurant the other night. The rains had stopped and everyone was coming out …
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“Rainbowland,” a song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus that celebrates acceptance, was recently banned from a spring concert set list at a Wisconsin elementary school. Sarah Schindler’s first-grade daughter came home from school last week, eager to show her mom the songs she’d be performing in the spring concert. …
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An attorney representing former Marvel Studio executive Victoria Alonso, who was fired earlier this week from the Walt Disney Co.-owned superhero juggernaut, is firing back at reports that she was pushed out over an Oscar-nominated film she produced. The Hollywood Reporter on Friday published a story citing unnamed sources who …
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Attorneys for “Rust” weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez Reed are seeking to block the appointment of a new special prosecutor after a state lawmaker who had served in that role resigned amid controversy. Gutierrez Reed’s lawyers on Friday blasted New Mexico 1st Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ efforts to hire a …
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Actor Millie Bobby Brown is about to be a published author. Her debut novel, the historical fiction “Nineteen Steps,” will be published Sept. 13, HarperCollins announced Friday. The book is inspired by the real-life experiences of Brown’s grandmother, who survived the Bethnal Green tube disaster in 1943, one of the …
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No Hollywood franchise is doing ballistic, balletic, bone-crunching fight action better than the “John Wick” series — and in its newest installment, a murderer’s row of talent joins Keanu Reeves to take the hit-man saga to the next level. Fleshing out the western- and jidaigeki-influenced underworld of “John Wick: Chapter …
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Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth have called it quits after more than 11 years of marriage. The two announced the news with a statement posted Friday to Witherspoon’s Instagram, just days before they were to celebrate their 12th anniversary on Sunday. “It is with a great deal of care and …
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‘Wildflower’ The meant-to-be-inspirational film “Wildflower” may be based on a true story, but it strains against its own artificiality. Kiernan Shipka gives a terrific performance as Bea Johnson, a bright and talented Las Vegas high schooler who worries that when she leaves for college, her developmentally disabled working-class parents — …
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