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Just hours earlier than this 12 months’s Eurovision Song Contest closing was set to start on Saturday in Malmo, Sweden, round 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched by means of the town heart to protest Israel’s participation within the competitors. Waving big Palestinian flags and accompanied by drummers, the protesters shouted slogans together with, “Eurovision, you’ll be […] More

With most TV exhibits, a serious casting change is a dreaded occasion. But for followers of the long-running British sequence “Doctor Who,” large casting modifications are anticipated, even anticipated. With the present’s newest Christmas episode, which premiered Monday on Disney+, we obtained acquainted with the latest Doctor, performed by Ncuti Gatwa (“Sex Education”) — the […] More

At lunch, Smart was open in regards to the current tragedies in her life. In 2021, Richard Gilliland, an actor she met on the set of “Designing Women” and married in 1987, died after a coronary heart assault. Covid restrictions meant that she obtained to see him solely twice within the hospital. There was nonetheless […] More

Sorry, dads: Because your vacation doesn’t come till June, when “Saturday Night Live” is in reruns, you don’t get something particular from “S.N.L.” But mothers, since Mother’s Day arrives the morning after the second-to-last dwell episode of the season — when everybody on the present has a watch on the door and is saving these […] More

Sam Rubin, a journalist for the tv station KTLA 5 in Los Angeles whose morning interviews with celebrities turned requisite viewing for a lot of the leisure business and who endeared himself to Hollywood insiders along with his geniality and data of their work, died on Friday. He was 64. Mr. Rubin’s dying was introduced […] More

When the film producer Bert Schneider met the Black Panther Party chief Huey P. Newton, he swooned. Schneider, who had helped revolutionize the film business (and made some huge cash) as a producer of movies like “Easy Rider,” needed to shake up issues off the display screen as effectively. He noticed Newton, who had already […] More

Jeannie Epper had at the least 100 display roles, possibly even 150 — nobody is kind of positive. But as a result of she was a stunt double, galloping on horseback, crashing vehicles and kicking down doorways for the celebrities of movies and tv reveals, hers was not a family identify. In her heyday, nevertheless, […] More

Trixie Mattel is aware of that something is prettier in pink — nearly. She had no qualms about drenching the Palm Springs resort that she and her companion, David Silver, redid in 2022 in bubble gum hues, however their non-public residence was one other matter. In “Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home,” out on June 1 […] More

Just hours earlier than this yr’s Eurovision Song Contest ultimate was scheduled to start in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday, the glitzy singing competitors was thrown into disaster after organizers banned the Netherlands’ entry from collaborating. On Friday, the Dutch musician, Joost Klein, whose songs combine pop with hyperfast beats, didn’t seem for a scheduled rehearsal […] More

Bill Holman, an arranger and composer whose work with Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan and different jazz greats established him as a transformative determine within the cool jazz sound related to Fifties California, died on Monday at his house within the Hollywood Hills part of Los Angeles. He was 96. Kathryn King, his stepdaughter, introduced the […] More

Picture an opera made completely of a mad scene, and you’ve got “Foreign Experiences,” an installment in “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” Ashley’s tetralogy whose development remembers one other four-work saga, Wagner’s “Ring.” In “Experiences,” the protagonist, Don Jr., spirals in isolation after a transfer to California, and from his house he imagines paranoid adventures in esoterica, […] More

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Tinariwen: “Matadjem Yinmixan” The Mali-based collective Tinariwen is a part of the material of contemporary Tuareg historical past; its founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, fled the nation as a toddler after his insurgent father was killed by authorities forces in an rebellion. For a long time now, […] More