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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 6:25am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from The Academy Is ..., Aaron Parks, Ra Ra Riot and Donny McCaslin Trio.
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Arts, Briefly: More Financial Trouble for Ed McMahon
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:24am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s former sidekick and the onetime host of “Star Search,” continues to be dogged by money trouble.
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Television Review: Just a Few More Questions, Ms. Thomas
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:24am GMT by By SUSAN STEWART
HBO’s “Thank You, Mr. President” takes a look back at the career of Helen Thomas, who has covered nine presidents since 1961.
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‘Thunder’ Dethrones a Batman Blockbuster
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:23am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
“Tropic Thunder” took in an estimated $26 million at the weekend box office, knocking “The Dark Knight” out of the No. 1 spot after an extraordinary monthlong run on top.
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Music Review | Unforgettable Tour: Movie Stars Take to the Stage, Giving ’Em the Old Bollywood Razzle-Dazzle
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:09am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
The Unforgettable Tour took over the Nassau Coliseum for a sold-out four-hour song-and-dance-and-more extravaganza featuring stars of Indian cinema.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:57am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” has set a Nov. 17 opening.
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Arts, Briefly: Actors and Legal Woes
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:55am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Legal troubles for Craig Robinson, Jared Leto and his brother Shannon.
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Arts, Briefly: Unconventional and Free
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Curious theatergoers can get an early look at the new works and works in progress of some of New York’s more unconventional artists at the fifth Prelude ’08 festival.
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Advertising: For 60 Years, the Ad Game Has Been Fodder for Scripts
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by By STUART ELLIOTT
The popularity of the AMC series “Mad Men” is renewing interest in efforts to portray the advertising business on TV and in film.
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Arts, Briefly: Iconoclasts Lineup Set
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
“Iconoclasts” will return for a fourth season on Sundance in October, featuring Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the British entrepreneur Richard Branson, among others.
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Arts, Briefly: Tenor and Soprano Are Wagner Winners
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The soprano Elza van den Heever of South Africa and the tenor Michael Weinius of Sweden were the winners of the second International Wagner Competition, sponsored by the Seattle Opera.
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Arts, Briefly: Bill Murray, Jumper, Still in One Piece
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Bill Murray jumped out of a plane 13,500 feet above Lake Michigan on Friday afternoon and landed safely.
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Television Starts to Court the Young Voter
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
With polls showing a surge in primary-season ballots cast by voters under 30, media outlets are out to convert the newly energized voters into viewers.
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Arts, Briefly: Bernie Mac Remembered
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
About 6,000 gathered at the House of Hope church in Chicago on Saturday to pay tribute to the comedian Bernie Mac, who died on Aug. 9.
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Theater Review | 'Absinthe': A Circus, Yes, but Emphatically Not for Children of All Ages
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:33am GMT by By RACHEL SALTZ
There’s an R-rated stripper and a foul-mouthed M.C., but the naughty circus-meets-burlesque show “Absinthe” succeeds best at its most innocent.
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Television Review: Sword-and-Sandals Men With Back Story Revealed
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Discovery Channel’s look at “The Secret Life of Gladiators” sets history straight.
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Music Review | Andrea McArdle: Bet Your Bottom Dollar, She Survived ‘Tomorrow’
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:20am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Andrea McArdle, the star of the original “Annie,” comes across as a brassy, garrulous trouper marinated in her new show at the Metropolitan Room.
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Music Review: Industrial Dissonance on a Sunny Day in the Park
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:13am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
Battles, Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance — three groups known for making a racket — played a free concert at Central Park SummerStage on Saturday afternoon.
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Music Review | Mostly Mozart Festival: Jazzy Clarinet for Mozart, and Mostly Finnish Touch
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:53am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The Mostly Mozart Festival continued Friday with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 and Sibelius’s “Pelléas et Mélisande.”
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A Surprise Winner at the Olympic Games in Beijing: NBC
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:51am GMT by By BILL CARTER and RICHARD SANDOMIR
The Games have become the hottest event of the summer, drawing an average audience of about 30 million a night on NBC, far beyond the network’s expectations.
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Television: They Drink, They Drug, and You Are There
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:43am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
Nothing on television matches the freaky calculus of exploitation and good will in A&E’s “Intervention,” which lures dope fiends and alcoholics into confrontations with their families.
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Media Talk: Fox News Joins a Social Network, but Not Its Parent’s Site
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:19am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of using the News Corporation’s own social network, it’s choosing to network on the site’s chief rival, Facebook.
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Media Talk: Serving 3 Brands: Burger King, Google and Seth MacFarlane
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:19am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
Seth MacFarlane, creator of the “Family Guy,” is teaming up with Google and Burger King to animate both an online series and ads to go with it.
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Media Talk: ‘Gossip Girl’ DVD Extra Tries to Steer Buyers to the Books
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:18am GMT by By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
The DVD set “Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season” includes a free electronic version of the original novel on which the show is based. But — OMG! — it’s an audio book.
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Books of The Times: Murder Most Rational and Confounding
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:14am GMT by By JOHN STEELE GORDON
Leopold and Loeb weren’t deranged. So why did they kill? Simon Baatz re-examines the 1924 case, still one of the most familiar and intriguing murders in American history.
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Link by Link: Like Politics? Broadcast Your View for Only $6
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:04am GMT by By NOAM COHEN
Saysme.tv didn’t invent the loudmouth, but, as the company’s logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell him a megaphone.
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House Proud in Historic Enclave
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:49am GMT by By CELIA McGEE
Celebrating the black writer Dorothy West’s home on Martha’s Vineyard.
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A Floating City With Junkyard Roots
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:42am GMT by By JULIE BLOOM
“Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids.
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Recalling Mission to Capture Era’s Misery
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:40am GMT by By FELICIA R. LEE
The PBS film “Documenting the Face of America” shows how a small federal agency’s New Deal project to document poverty helped shape modern documentary photography.
