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Movies by cinema heavyweights dominate Cannes Film Festival lineup
New York Times, Published on 10/04/2026
» NEW YORK — Movies by some of cinema’s most revered directors are among the 21 titles that will compete for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s organisers announced Thursday, revealing a lineup that leans heavily toward auteur filmmakers.
John Mayall, pioneer of British Blues, dies
New York Times, Published on 24/07/2024
» CALIFORNIA - John Mayall, the pioneering British bandleader whose mid-1960s blues ensembles served as incubators for some of the biggest stars of rock music's golden era, died on Monday. He was 90.
Biden's lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome
New York Times, Published on 03/07/2024
» NEW YORK - In the weeks and months before United States President Joe Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless or would lose the thread of conversations.
What is a song?
New York Times, Published on 03/05/2024
» NEW YORK - For most music fans, a song is a simple thing to define: It is the melodies, the lyrics, the grooves that come out of your speakers.
Prince's 'Purple Rain' is being developed as a stage musical
New York Times, Published on 09/01/2024
» "Purple Rain," Prince Rogers Nelson's breakout rise-of-a-rock-star film, is being adapted into a stage musical featuring some of the pop musician’s best-loved songs.
The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’: A glimpse of past greatness
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2023
» It is not a grand finale. It is a wistful postscript.
'John Wick' star Lance Reddick dies
New York Times, Published on 18/03/2023
» Lance Reddick, a prolific actor who gained fame playing a police commander on the Baltimore crime drama “The Wire” and later had prominent roles in the “John Wick” movie franchise and the Amazon series “Bosch", died on Friday. He was 60.
Depeche Mode founder dies
New York Times, Published on 28/05/2022
» Andy Fletcher, who played synthesizers in Depeche Mode, an electronics-heavy British band that developed a huge fan following and sold millions of records in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 60.
Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols
New York Times, Published on 21/05/2022
» LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street.
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dies
New York Times, Published on 26/03/2022
» Taylor Hawkins, the hard-hitting, charismatic drummer for Foo Fighters, has died at 50.