Arts
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Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
In romances — whether on the page or the screen — we want characters with chemistry, who spark and combust from the meet-cute to the inevitable seduction to the dawning realization that despite their wisest intentions, characters have fallen ...
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Do Any of These Never Trumpers Have the Power to Persuade?
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration and the author of the new book BLOWBACK: A Warning to Save Democracy From the Next Trump (Atria, 335 pp., $30), made his dramatic entrance in 2018 with an ...
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Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings
Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and Paul Pinto.
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The One Without Matthew Perry
Even as he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, the “Friends” star Matthew Perry, who died at the age of 54, made it all look easy.
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Two Books for a Mental Vacation
Madeleine L’Engle’s domestic memoir; Julie Orringer’s humane short stories
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Dylan’s Back Pages, and Then Some
This collection of archival treasures at the Bob Dylan Center includes fan mail from Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen.
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Watch Matthew Perry’s Best Performances
Perry will always be remembered as Chandler Bing. But he had a long and varied career that included films and many other series.
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Matthew Perry, Star of ‘Friends,’ Dies at 54
Mr. Perry, who died on Saturday, was best known for his role in “Friends,” the NBC sitcom that followed a group of young professionals living in Manhattan.
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Meg Ryan Wrestles With the Rom-Com
Meg Ryan was hurting. Not metaphorically. The actress and one-time rom-com queen was actively sore, having spent the morning, one of many, unpacking and moving herself into a home she’d long been renovating in Montecito, Calif. Persevering through ...
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Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.
Joey Evans is a charming cad, a heel, an unapologetic womanizer, a gigolo. He’s a second-rate nightclub entertainer who breaks the heart of an ingénue and seduces a rich older woman, trading sex for money. In 1940, some people found Joey, the ...