In places, he is something close to a conventional rapper — on “Dark Queen,” about his mother, and “For Real” — but he is just as likely to embody screamo and emo, spiritualized funk or abstract, pointillist pop. When he raps, he’s almost gruff, but when he sings, he’s sweet, …

When “Love” (“Szerelem” in Hungarian) was released in the United States in 1973, Vincent Canby of The Times ranked it among the year’s 10 best movies. (Among the others were François Truffaut’s “Day for Night” and George Lucas’s “American Graffiti.”) Reviewing the film for The Guardian, Derek Malcolm wrote, “The …

(In 1964, reviewing the company in Paris, Clive Barnes of The Times had a less favorable view. “In general, they were strong on décor and drama, and weak on choreography and music,” he wrote of three ballets by Ms. Charrat.) Continue reading the main story In addition to creating pieces …

BILLY EICHNER I don’t remember that at all. TAYLOR My back was to Billy’s back, and I remember hearing him and being like, “That’s exactly the kind of conversation I came to Northwestern for. I’m gonna make you my best friend.” EICHNER He came to this “Ray of Light” party …

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Eventually, Mr. Litt found himself writing low-profile remarks for Mr. Obama and by the second term, became one of his top speechwriters, especially marshaling his comedic side as the lead writer for multiple White House Correspondents’ Association dinners. He discussed his book over coffee and explained how in “The West …

Alex Milan Tracy | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Two men hold banners reading ‘Free Francisco Rodriguez Dominguez – Stop I.C.E’ during a protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon, United States, on March 28, 2017. In an open letter, nearly 400 U.S. executives, including …

Photo courtesy Academy Sports + Outdoors Members of the army in town for Hurricane Harvey rescue pitch cots in the Academy Sports + Outdoors parking garage. It has not been perfect. But everyone deals with the situation because they have to. “Literally you would have sort of pop up dormitories …

And yet Ms. Twain is not apprehensive about her return, 15 years later, with her fifth album, “Now,” on Sept. 29. “I really feel like I’m coming back into worlds that I already know,” the singer, 52, said one afternoon early last month in a room at the London West …

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Pfizer logo sits on Viagra tablets, produced by Pfizer Inc. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer’s drug, Mylotarg, for certain patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The drug was cleared to treat adults with newly diagnosed AML whose …