Sean Baker made Oscars history on Sunday by becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie. With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for best picture, director, original screenplay and … Read more
A furious political leader shouting a message of hate to an adoring audience. A child crying over the massacre of her family. Emaciated men in prison uniforms, starved to the edge of death because of their identities. As you read each sentence, specific imagery likely appears in your mind, seared in your memory and our … Read more
Reading List 10 books for your March reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your March reading list. Winds of change show up this month. One author … Read more
Alexander Hamilton: founding father, prolific writer, super invested in the U.S. currency … ruffle thief? If Thursday’s episode of the CBS comedy “Ghosts” is to be believed, history’s true rivalry wasn’t between Hamilton and his dueling partner, Aaron Burr. It was between Hamilton and an otherwise forgotten fighter for the American Revolution: Isaac Higgintoot (Brandon … Read more
VANNES, France — The ex-wife of a former surgeon at the center of France’s largest ever child sexual abuse case told a court Wednesday she knew “nothing” of her husband’s near 30-year history of abusing children, including members of their family, until his arrest in 2017. Marie-France Lhermite, 71, testified as her ex-husband, Joël Le … Read more
The Academy Awards itself was already geriatric age by the time the 2005 ceremony rolled around. But that doesn’t mean there were no more milestones to be set or records broken. And indeed, history was made that evening: The lead actor and supporting actor Oscars were both won by Black men for the first and, … Read more
New York — It has been more than 25 years since “Passions,” the last new daytime soap opera to air on American network TV, debuted on NBC. And for nearly as long, Michele Val Jean and Sheila Ducksworth have dreamed of making a soap about an affluent Black family. Their shared vision comes to fruition Monday … Read more
Do you want to be an actor? Listening to Screen Actors Guild Awards host Kristen Bell singing that question to the tune of “Do You Want to be a Snowman,” it seemed like the only reasonable response was a hearty “hell yes,” even with all the talk of failure and embarrassment and the possibility that … Read more
PARIS — Amélie Lévêque remembers the moment when she finally understood the unexplained bouts of depression and other disorders that had tormented her for more than two decades. Now 42, she connected the dots in 2019 when she saw a report about a surgeon under investigation on suspicion of sexually assaulting patients over three decades … Read more
Yasmin Rufo Entertainment reporter timetravellerpov AI-generated videos of the black plague and the eruption of Vesuvius have been going viral on TikTok Imagine waking up in Rome 2,000 years ago, on the Nile in ancient Egypt or on the streets of London during the Black Death in the 1300s – complete with realistic sights, sounds … Read more
