Mr. Spacey was once the centerpiece of the hit Netflix series, which ran for six seasons between 2013 and 2018. While the sixth and final season was being filmed in 2017, the actor Anthony Rapp accused Mr. Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Mr. Rapp was 14. In the arbitration, […]
Toward the end of “Red Notice,” Netflix’s flashiest and most expensive attempt to date at starting a film franchise, Ryan Reynolds descends into a cave to search for a bounty pilfered by Nazis. That homage to the “Indiana Jones” movies also serves as something of an indicator of Netflix’s film aspirations, which have evolved over […]
His most famous, and most controversial, work was “Iron John: A Book About Men,” which made a case that American men had grown soft and feminized. Robert Bly, the Minnesota poet, author and translator who articulated the solitude of landscapes, galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men’s movement with a best […]
This year, with the city reporting that more than 80 percent of adults are fully vaccinated, the parade is expected to return with all its helium-filled pomp and corporate-branded holiday cheer — with an asterisk: children under 12 will not be allowed to participate in the parade itself. Their absence is slightly strange in an […]
Instead they ended up adapting her 2003 play “Eurydice” — a yearning, fanciful treatment of the Orpheus story in which Eurydice is reunited with her dead father in the underworld. Aucoin and Ruhl wrote to each other for several years about turning the poetry of her play into a libretto, building character through music, and […]
The gift, the largest yet for the Obama Foundation, was one in a series of splashy donations by Mr. Bezos, one of the world’s richest men, in recent months. In return for the donation, Mr. Bezos asked that a plaza at the Obama Presidential Center be named for the civil rights leader John Lewis, who […]
“I rejoice at and fully support the news of reopening the country to vaccinated tourists without quarantine,” said Chhay Sivlin, the president of the Cambodia Association of Travel Agents. “This is a big step towards reopening the entire country,” said Mr. Hun Sen, an authoritarian leader who came to power in 1984. Under the new […]
After a shortened, audience-free event in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of spectators are expected to line Manhattan’s streets on Thursday to watch this year’s parade, and millions more will view it on NBC. The giant balloons that the parade is now known for did not show up until a few years later. […]
Mick Rock, whose striking images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, as well as more recent stars like Theophilus London and Snoop Dogg, made him one of rock and pop’s most acclaimed photographers, died on Thursday at a hospital in Staten Island. Mr. Rock was often called “the man who shot the ’70s” because […]
It was the day before Dornan’s new film, “Belfast,” an Irish coming-of-age story, would screen for the first time in the Northern Irish city that bears its name, a city where Dornan spent the first 19 years of his life. “We could get all the good reviews in the world, but what we really want […]
Germans have gathered at outdoor markets in the weeks before Christmas since the 14th century, when vendors first built their stands in city centers to sell their wares to people coming from church services. Germany’s roughly 3,000 Christmas markets are an important economic boon to many communities. For the Christmas markets that remain open, only […]
“Game of Thrones” left this mortal plane in 2019, and it is not far-fetched to assume that Amazon hopes “Wheel,” whose first three episodes debut Friday, is its second coming. The good news for fantasy-hungry viewers is that this lush and ambitious series quickly approaches “Thrones,” and even Peter Jackson’s Tolkien films, in grandeur and […]
The report offers a first look at which companies could face higher tax bills under the proposal, which calls for enacting a 15 percent minimum tax on companies that report more than $1 billion in profit to shareholders, even if they have zero federal tax liability. The report by Ms. Warren found that the tax […]
“I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied,” he said in his speech. The judges called it “a brilliant, original work,” examining a compilation of lives “that ordinary archives suppress.” Dr. In her speech, she thanked her editor, Molly Turpin, recounting how […]
14 concert-and-interview TV special with Oprah Winfrey, about her divorce from Simon Konecki, the father of their child, Angelo. In her six years between albums — a gap extended by the pandemic — Adele has largely stood aside from the miniaturization and gimmickiness of current pop hitmaking. While many current streaming hits are just two […]
Young Dolph, a deeply skilled Memphis rapper with deadpan bravado and a fierce independent streak who emerged as one of hip-hop’s most promising new stars in recent years, was killed Wednesday in a shooting in his hometown. Officers responded to the scene at 12:24 p.m. The local Fox affiliate reported that the victim was Young […]
“Then, an explosion,’’ the supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, recalled at a news conference in Los Angeles. Then, she said, she turned and saw the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, sink down to the ground. 21 on the set of the film on Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe County, N.M., as Mr. Baldwin prepared to film a […]
The anime series “Cowboy Bebop” debuted in Japan in 1998, combining futuristic space travel with Spaghetti Western grit and the slickness of film noir. Her eclectic compositions — with their percolating jazz and doleful sax solos and languorous blues harmonica riffs — were an essential part of the cult hit, helping its director, Shinichiro Watanabe, […]
“Miramax will defend all of its rights in regard to its library, including rights relating to NFTs, and will not allow Quentin’s representatives to deceive others into believing they have the authority to make similar deals in violation of the rights agreements they signed,” Bart H. “Pulp Fiction,” perhaps more than any other Tarantino film, […]
Completed five years before her death in 1954, the oil painting, “Diego and I,” is one of Kahlo’s final self-portraits and an example of the unsettling intimacy that has attracted collectors to her paintings. The winning bid for $34.9 million after fees was taken by Anna Di Stasi, Sotheby’s director of Latin American art. Kahlo, […]