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05/16/2008 10:43 AM
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Film: Shaking Up the Crowd at Cannes
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The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.
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05/16/2008 01:05 AM
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Art Review: When Artworks Collide
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?Who?s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,? a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don?t have to be a museum to shake things up.
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05/16/2008 12:59 AM
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Books of The Times: Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss
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Joseph O?Neill?s stunning new novel set in post-9/11 New York provides a resonant meditation on the American Dream.
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05/16/2008 11:11 AM
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Movie Review | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian': Out of the Wardrobe, Into a War Zone
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?Prince Caspian? is quite a bit darker than ?The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,? both in look and in mood. It is also in some ways more satisfying.
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05/16/2008 10:34 AM
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Exhibition Review | 'The Horse': Man?s Best Friend, Hoofed Department
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Without horses, where would we be? The answer is revealed in a sprawling, charming and illuminating exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
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05/16/2008 02:15 AM
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Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps
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Anthony Pellicano was a ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable Hollywood fixer.
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05/16/2008 02:04 AM
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After a Hectic Week, a Partylike Evening at Phillips de Pury Brings in $59 Million
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The sum seemed small compared with Sotheby?s and Christie?s totals on Tuesday. But it was a respectable result, and of the 64 works up for sale, only 9 failed to sell.
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05/16/2008 01:12 AM
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Art: Rauschenberg Got a Lot From the City and Left a Lot Behind
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Here?s what?s on view right now and what will be brought out of storage or rearranged to honor Robert Rauschenberg in the coming weeks.
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05/16/2008 12:29 AM
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Television: What Wine Goes With Beetle Larvae?
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?Man vs. Wild,? in the second chapter of its sophomore season on the Discovery Channel, returned two weeks ago as the most elitist of television?s nature-combat shows.
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05/16/2008 01:08 AM
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Art Review: From Around the Globe, a Mustering of the Tribes
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The New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show assembles a forceful, entrancing ensemble of tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and North and South America.
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05/16/2008 01:10 AM
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Art Review | 'Polaroids: Mapplethorpe': Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message
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The beloved instant photograph could not have hoped for a better sendoff than the Whitney Museum?s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe?s Polaroids.
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05/16/2008 12:48 AM
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Movie Review | 'Reprise': Two Friends, Two Novels, One Mailbox: Lives at the Speed of Ambition
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An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry, ?Reprise? is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.
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05/16/2008 12:37 AM
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Theater Review | 'The Bully Pulpit': The Amazing Adventures of a Gregarious Dissident
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Theodore Roosevelt was never one to reflexively conform to party ideology, as Michael O. Smith demonstrates in his informative one-man show.
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05/16/2008 12:37 AM
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Dance Review | Eleanor Bauer: Not Just a Dance, but a Book and a Web Site, Too
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Eleanor Bauer/Good Move managed to give the audience a gift, butter them up with compliments and perform a dance that made them think on Wednesday.
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05/16/2008 12:36 AM
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Music Review: A Brahms Piano Quartet, With No Strings Attached
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The Sylvan Winds?s arrangement of Brahms?s Piano Quartet lacked the emotive warmth and passion of Brahmsian strings.
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05/16/2008 12:44 AM
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Music Review | Kent Tritle: Shaping a Work That Has Returned to Fashion
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Mr. Tritle, his choir and an orchestra gave a viscerally thrilling performance of Monteverdi?s ?Vespro Della Beata Vergine? at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Wednesday.
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05/16/2008 12:35 AM
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Music Review | Karen Akers: Starting Over, Meeting Strangers and Not Giving Up
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Karen Akers performed songs of loneliness, loss and aging with impeccable enunciation at the Oak Room on Wednesday.
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05/16/2008 12:48 AM
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Movie Review | 'Sangre de Mi Sangre': A Teenager?s Betrayal in Brooklyn
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Although ?Sangre de Mi Sangre? exhibits a heartfelt connection with illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are frustrating.
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05/16/2008 12:47 AM
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Movie Review: When Selling a Soul, Consider the Price
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Christian Petzold?s enigmatic thriller ?Yella? offers a surreal X-ray vision of cutthroat capitalism in 21st-century Germany.
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05/16/2008 10:56 AM
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Movie Review | 'My Father My Lord': Another Abraham?s Story, With a Different Ending
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?My Father My Lord? observes the severe family life of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
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05/16/2008 07:03 AM
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Movie Review | 'Quantum Hoops': This Is Basketball, Boys; It?s Not Rocket Science
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?Quantum Hoops? tells the story of the California Institute of Technology?s men?s basketball team, a farcical topic in the context of college sports.
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05/16/2008 01:06 AM
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Inside Art: Bacon?s ?Dyer? Expected to Attract Big Numbers
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At Sotheby?s contemporary-art auction in London, one of the star paintings will be a portrait of George Dyer, Francis Bacon?s companion, who committed suicide in 1971.
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05/16/2008 01:11 AM
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Antiques: Tending to the Legacy of a Deco Master
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Jules Leleu never achieved the international fame of other 20th-century French designers, but he was just as successful and probably more prolific.
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05/16/2008 01:09 AM
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Art in Review
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The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown?s Enterprise and Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
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05/16/2008 01:47 AM
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Warren Cowan, a Star at Promoting Stars, Dies at 87
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Mr. Cowan represented generations of celebrities, from Doris Day to Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra to Elton John, Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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05/16/2008 07:02 AM
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John Phillip Law, 70, Film Actor, Is Dead
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Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic ?Barbarella? and a lovesick Russian seaman in ?The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.?
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05/16/2008 02:05 AM
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Oakley Hall, 87, Novelist Attuned to the Old West, Is Dead
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Mr. Hall was the author of the novels ?Warlock? and ?The Downhill Racers? and a literary heir to fellow California writers like Wallace Stegner.
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05/16/2008 12:43 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Injured Actor Files Petition
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An actor who was injured on the set of ?Disney?s The Little Mermaid? has asked for a court order to preserve a prop in the show as evidence for a potential lawsuit.
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05/16/2008 12:41 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Rights Groups React to Russian Charges
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Rights organizations have accused the Russian government of persecuting the Sakharov Museum in Moscow by charging its director, Yuri Samodurov, above, with inciting ?religious hatred? and ?offending human dignity? when he mounted a 2007 exhibition, ?Forbidden Art,? which outraged some members of the Orthodox Church, Agence France-Presse reported.
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05/16/2008 12:44 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Opera Official Quits
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Peter Mussbach of the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin has quit, The Associated Press reported.
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05/16/2008 12:41 AM
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Arts, Briefly: More Progress Asked of Smithsonian
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The Government Accountability Office recognized the institution?s progress in improving governance during the past year, but said in a report that there is still some distance to go.
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05/16/2008 12:41 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Concerts Set to Benefit Children
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Free concerts starring Shakira, Miguel Bose and others are being held in Mexico City and Buenos Aires on Saturday to support early childhood development programs in Latin America.
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05/16/2008 12:39 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Doherty Performs Again
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Fresh out of prison, the Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty returned to the stage for the first time with his band in London on Tuesday, the BBC reported.
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05/16/2008 01:01 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Redgrave?s New Show
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Lynn Redgrave has a solo work in progress about her mother, Rachel Kempson, and her relationship with Shakespeare.
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05/16/2008 12:39 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Gift Aids Struggling Honolulu Symphony
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An anonymous donor has given $1.175 million to the financially troubled orchestra to help them pay seven weeks of back wages to musicians and staff members.
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05/16/2008 12:40 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Museum Director Is Found Dead
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An American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a detention center in Seattle, The Associated Press reported.
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05/16/2008 01:00 AM
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Arts, Briefly: 'Idol' Semifinals Buoy Fox
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Fox?s ?American Idol? dominated another night of television ratings on Wednesday.
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05/16/2008 12:40 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
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Harrison Ford has been elected to the board of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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