Photo The conductor Marin Alsop leading the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in a program that included a short John Adams work and a premiere by Gabriela Lena Frank at Carnegie Hall on Friday. Credit Harrison Hill/The New York Times Imitation can be the sincerest form …
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The princes agreed, and offered to show photographs from recently discovered albums created for them by Diana. The documentary opens with William, 35, and Harry, 32, looking at a photograph of a pregnant Diana holding her very small first son. “Believe it or not, you and I are both in …
Read More »More Than 90 at Chance the Rapper Concert Hospitalized
Photo Chance the Rapper in concert. Credit Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times More than 90 people at a Connecticut concert featuring Chance the Rapper were hospitalized on Friday, according to a report in The Hartford Courant. The concert, Hot 93.7’s Hot Jam at Xfinity Theater in Hartford, also …
Read More »‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage
The dinner was mostly me being a nervous chatterbox, trying in vain to spark conversation between two people with little in common. My mother didn’t talk much, if at all. She grew up in a different culture and a different generation. She was too polite to say it, but I …
Read More »What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Story of a Girl’ and ‘Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White’
Photo Ryann Shane and Kevin Bacon in “Story of a Girl.” Credit Bettina Strauss/Lifetime Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut opposite her husband, Kevin Bacon, and their daughter, Sosie. And Michael Phelps races (sort of) a great white during Discovery’s Shark Week. What’s on TV STORY OF A GIRL (2017) …
Read More »John Heard, the Frazzled Father in ‘Home Alone,’ Dies at 71
With his squinting blue eyes and clean-shaven good looks, Mr. Heard embodied the stereotype of the 1980s businessman. He brought to the roles a mixture of flustered charm and self-assurance. Photo Mr. Heard with Catherine O’Hara in “Home Alone 2.” Credit Rex Features, via AP Images John Matthew Heard Jr. …
Read More »Review: ‘Dunkirk’ Is a Tour de Force War Movie, Both Sweeping and Intimate
Photo A scene from Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk,” which focuses on a harrowing rescue effort during World War II. Credit Warner Bros. One of the most indelible images in “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s brilliant new film, is of a British plane in flames. The movie recounts an early, harrowing campaign in World …
Read More »Review: In ‘The Untamed,’ Close Encounters. No, Even Closer.
Photo Ruth Ramos in “The Untamed.” Credit Strand Releasing Resolutely unsmiling and studiously austere, “The Untamed” behaves like a quiet horror movie with a lot on its mind. Its main characters, who live in the central Mexican city of Guanajuato, are young, gloomy, attractive men and women connected by friendship, …
Read More »Review: ‘Killing Ground’ Will Make You Rethink That Camping Trip
Photo Aaron Glenane in “Killing Ground.” Credit John Platt/IFC Midnight “Killing Ground” features a man and a woman who make head-slappingly dumb choices as they flee from a pair of killers who are just as inept. Yet in the end, the most regrettable decision may be that of audience members …
Read More »Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together
Photo Jenny Slate, left, and Abby Quinn in “Landline.” Credit Linda Kallerus/Amazon Studios Nostalgia is not what it used to be. “Landline,” a fairly genial, diffident comedy about diffident, fairly generic people, plants its flag in 1995 and surveys a landscape of indie rock, “Must See TV” and the high-waisted …
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