Tag: The New York Times

Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage. It was late afternoon on March 5, 2020, the overcast day chosen by the State of Alabama to be Mr. Woods’s last. […]

The lawsuit was filed by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, the writers of the 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play” by the R&B group 3LW. A trial would test whether parts of Ms. Swift’s song, including versions of the phrases “players gonna play” and “haters gonna hate,” are similar enough to the earlier song to meet […]

That Carrie took him back after he left her at the altar in the first movie sequel, and that she compromised herself to fit his marital ideal in the second, did little to assuage disappointment. Then “And Just Like That …,” the 10-part HBO Max follow-up series to “Sex and the City,” was announced, and […]

Michael Nesmith, who rocketed to fame as the contemplative, wool-cap-wearing member of the Monkees in 1966, then went on to a diverse career that included making one of the rock era’s earliest music videos and winning the first Grammy Award for video, died on Friday at his home in Carmel Valley, Calif. Davy Jones, a […]

He was, after all, the man who wrote those feelings into a beautiful “Company” song — “Sorry-Grateful” — and, in so doing, introduced ambivalence at an almost cellular level to the American musical theater. Sure, the score remains great, and there are a few perfectly etched performances in supporting roles, especially Patti LuPone’s as the […]

Mikey arrives in Texas City, Tex., a Gulf Coast oil-and-gas town, with not much more than the tank top on his back, $22 in his pocket and bruises on his face and torso. Before long he is installed on Lil’s couch , using their modest yellow bungalow as a base of operations as he lays […]

Robbie Shakespeare, a Jamaican bassist who, as half of the rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, played with and produced some of the biggest names in music while transforming reggae with bold infusions of rock, blues and jazz, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Miami. Starting in the mid-1970s, Sly and Robbie were among the […]

On Aug. But on Aug. 20, Richards abruptly quit the hosting job, after a report by The Ringer revealed offensive and sexist comments he had made on a podcast several years ago, the latest in a series of scandals that affected his brief tenure. Both Jennings and Bialik have faced criticism for past remarks. …Read […]

Holiday music is big business: Just take a look at the Billboard charts every December, when the Top 10s fill up with Christmas albums that are both new and nostalgic. A few tracks also feature manufactured duets with living vocalists: a full-frontal synth-and-strings assault on “Deck the Halls” and “Joy to the World,” combined together […]

What its creators attempted — a swirling fusion of literary sophistication and contemporary social concern, of playfulness and solemnity, of realism and fantasy, of street fighting and ballet — hadn’t quite been attempted before, and hasn’t been matched since. The idea of harnessing the durable tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” to the newsy issues of […]

Lina Wertmüller, who combined sexual warfare and leftist politics in the provocative, genre-defying films “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties,” which established her as one of the most original directors of the 1970s, died overnight at her home in Rome, the Italian Culture Ministry and the news agency LaPresse said on Thursday. […]

As much as many people like to complain about the holidays, their actual experience remains fairly mild and any mention of nightmares is largely metaphorical. Eva , gives her a beautifully designed German advent calendar for Christmas. But the advent calendar also exploits her bitter regrets and frustrations — it is those colleagues, not her […]

After six days of testimony, and a full day of closing arguments by both sides, the 12-person jury began considering the disorderly conduct charges late on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier in the trial, the special prosecutor in the case, Daniel K. Mr. Webb argued on Wednesday that Mr. Smollett’s own account of what had occurred did […]

Greg Tate, a journalist and critic whose articles for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and other publications starting in the 1980s helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same plane as jazz and Abstract Expressionism, died on Tuesday in New York City. Mr. Tate exploded onto the New York cultural scene in the early […]

Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage. But as the hours passed, and Ono remained — painting at an easel, chewing a pastry, paging through a Lennon fan magazine […]

There are sentences, and then there are the writings of Greg Tate, who died this week at the age of 64. And it was patient, unfurling at exactly the pace of gestation, while somehow containing turns of phrase that appeared to be moving at warp speed. Page 123, leading into a review of Public Enemy: […]

7, they found themselves blinking in the frigid December fog at Place Skanderberg, just outside the Périphérique ring road, waiting for the brand’s annual Métiers d’Art show to begin. Delivered by a fleet of Mercedeses, dressed to the nines in bouclé and draped in pearls, many were wearing necklaces from which dangled a small pair […]