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Sony has agreed to accumulate half of Michael Jackson’s catalog from the star’s property, in what is probably going the richest transaction ever for a single musician’s work, in response to two folks briefed on the settlement. The deal, which has been gossiped about within the music business for months, is claimed to contain Sony […] More

Henry Fambrough, the final surviving unique member of the hit-making R&B vocal group the Spinners, died on Wednesday at his residence in Herndon, Va. He was 85. His demise was introduced by a spokeswoman for the group, Tanisha Jackson. She didn’t specify a trigger. Mr. Fambrough died lower than a yr after he introduced his […] More

Seiji Ozawa, the eminent Japanese conductor whose demise, at 88, was introduced on Friday, was a pressure on the podium. He toured the world’s main live performance halls and helped break obstacles for Asian classical musicians. He additionally left behind an intensive and different discography: recordings of warhorses like Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 with the […] More

Four a long time in the past, the Super Bowl grew to become the Super Bowl. It wasn’t due to something that occurred within the sport itself: On Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated Washington 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII, a contest that was principally over earlier than halftime. But through the broadcast […] More

To hear them inform it, the origin story of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, one in every of our biggest comedy duos, hinges on a second in 1994 on tour with Second City in Waco, Texas, once they met an Australian girl carrying a sling who spoke “lovingly” in regards to the return of the […] More

For the British writer David Nicholls, the important thing to a very good romantic story is avoiding the clichés. “The first kiss, the primary night time collectively, the marriage day. There are all these landmarks that are fairly acquainted and fairly apparent,” he stated not too long ago. Instead, his 2009 novel “One Day” follows […] More

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the earlier evening’s highlights that allows you to sleep — and lets us receives a commission to observe comedy. Here are the 50 greatest motion pictures on Netflix proper now. ‘The Tortured Lawyers Department’ On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard arguments over eradicating former President Donald […] More

Thursday, we heard them as individuals doing a job, probing, sparring, even joking. They may very well be tetchy, as when Neil Gorsuch minimize off what he thought of an evasive argument from Jason Murray, a lawyer representing the Colorado voters who challenged Mr. Trump’s eligibility: “Don’t change the hypothetical!” Elena Kagan drew laughs from […] More

MS. DUNCAN AND MS. HOOPER’S RELATIONSHIPS with Mr. Majors briefly overlapped, although neither initially realized it. When Ms. Hooper and Mr. Majors started courting, she mentioned that he shortly expressed deep love for her but additionally turned controlling, dictating the place she might go, who she might socialize with and the way she might behave. […] More

There is a smooth chicness to “Criminal Record,” an engrossing British cop thriller on Apple TV+. It pulls from numerous well-worn codecs however reconstitutes every thing into its personal chilly terrazzo, generally to thrilling impact. Oh, positive, it’s onerous to make room in a single’s coronary heart or viewing schedule for one more soiled cop […] More

“Can you get my drink, and I’ll get Merce?“ In sure circles — OK, mine — that identify can belong to just one individual: Merce Cunningham, the Twentieth-century choreographer who reshaped trendy dance. Over the previous few weeks, his identify has come up within the strangest of locations: “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” On […] More

Dick Waterman, a beacon on the planet of blues who as a promoter, expertise manager and photographer helped revive the careers of a technology of storied purveyors of that bedrock American artwork kind whereas lyrically documenting their journeys together with his digicam, died on Jan. 26 in Oxford, Miss. He was 88. His niece Theodora […] More