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3 weeks ago | 
thederrick.com | Greg Braxton |Tracy Brown |Ashley Lee |Mary McNamara |Ashley Lee |Amy Nicholson | +4 more
LOS ANGELES — Shockingly to our jaded eyes, the summer already looks promising. Our staffers let their expectations fly, owning up to high hopes for impossible missions, a superhero or two and — yes — “The Naked Gun.” What follows is our undoubtedly essential and correct list of the 18 films you need to brace for this summer. Thank you for reading! Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
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2 months ago | 
thederrick.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee |Ashley Lee
LOS ANGELES — Hungarian-born pianist András Schiff announced last week that he was canceling all of his upcoming U.S. performances for the 2025-26 season “due to the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States.”His choice to avoid American soil in protest of what has been unfolding under the Trump administration was not without precedent.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
thederrick.com | Meredith Blake |Greg Braxton |Matt Brennan |Tracy Brown |Amy Kaufman |Ashley Lee | +6 more
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Greg Braxton |Matt Brennan |Amy Kaufman |Ashley Lee
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s pipeline may be slowed due to the aftereffects of strikes we’re still dealing with, but our snapshot of the best films of the season is as packed as ever. Big-budget musicals, dark supervillain sequels, big-budget musicals that are dark supervillain sequels, international charmers and sharp indie standouts all crowd the calendar.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thelcn.com | Greg Braxton |Matt Brennan |Amy Kaufman |Ashley Lee
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s pipeline may be slowed due to the aftereffects of strikes we’re still dealing with, but our snapshot of the best films of the season is as packed as ever. Big-budget musicals, dark supervillain sequels, big-budget musicals that are dark supervillain sequels, international charmers and sharp indie standouts all crowd the calendar.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Ashley Lee
By Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times Will Jennings, the Oscar-winning lyricist of "My Heart Will Go On" and "Up Where We Belong," has died. He was 80. The songwriter died Friday at his home in Tyler, Texas, his agent Sam Schwartz of the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency confirmed to The Times. "May his memory be a blessing," he said of Jennings via email. No cause of death was disclosed.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
bellinghamherald.com | Ashley Lee
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis have co-written "Warriors," a concept album inspired by the 1979 cult hit "The Warriors," based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name. The 26-song album - executive produced by Nas, produced by Mike Elizondo and featuring a star-studded cast of artists - will be released Oct. 18 by Atlantic Records. "We've spent the past three years musicalizing the Warriors' journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island," Miranda and Davis said in a joint statement.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thederrick.com | Ashley Lee |Ashley Lee
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Ashley Lee
By Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times Amid a particularly crowded Broadway season of new plays and musicals, "Stereophonic" and "Hell's Kitchen" rose to the top as the most-nominated productions for the 2024 Tony Awards on Tuesday. David Adjmi's play about a 1970s band recording an album and Alicia's Keys' musical recounting her New York upbringing each earned 13 nominations.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
eagletribune.com | Ashley Lee
There’s a dazzling moment in the new “The Color Purple” in which Fantasia Barrino sings while walking atop an enormous shellac record spinning on a huge gramophone, all while rotating around Taraji P. Henson soaking in a bathtub. Maybe that seems incongruent with Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which recounts the abuse and ascendancy of Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s.
