The Trumps Bow Out. Will Future Presidents Attend the Kennedy Center Honors?
President Trump’s decision to skip the Kennedy Center’s gala eases the pressures this year — but could make it harder to attract other presidents.
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‘Game of Thrones’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Finale
“Game of Thrones” included an enormous amount of movement and plot development inside those ravens this season, and there are plenty of things to resolve.
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Photo CreditTurner Classic Movies, via Associated Press Memphis Theater Cancels ‘Gone With the Wind’ Screening
The theater will no longer show the film as part of its summer series because of concerns of the film’s racial insensitivity.
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How Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry Finally Got Seats at the Emmy Table
The actors, who each broke out last year, discuss how their longtime friendship shaped their journeys from up-and-comers to Emmy nominees.
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Photo CreditSummit Entertainment/Lionsgate Hollywood No Match for Mayweather vs. McGregor
Lethargic new movies, pay-per-view competition and Hurricane Harvey made for a terrible weekend at the box office. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” stayed at No. 1.
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Photo CreditNocturna International Fantastic European Pressphoto Agency Tobe Hooper, Director of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Dies at 74
Finding little to scare him in most horror films, Mr. Hooper was inspired to create a low-budget movie that became an influential classic of the genre.
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Photo CreditNathan Bajar for The New York Times The Pianist Taka Kigawa on Playing Messiaen’s Bird Marathon
An interview with Mr. Kigawa, who will perform Messiaen’s three-hour “Catalogue d’Oiseaux” (“Catalog of Birds”) at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday.
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Photo CreditSuzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss
Her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” is defined by her hardening view of others. The song sets a mood for her sixth album, due in November.
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Critic's Notebook
Photo CreditBarbara Gindl/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland
The venerable festival, the center of classical music each summer, ends its first season under Markus Hinterhäuser, viewed as a change agent.
