Archive: Links for the Day
Jim Parsons comes out.
American Idol winner Phillip Phillips cloaks his chops in modesty.
The U.S. Air Force Academy graduates first openly gay cadets.
Man in custody being questioned in 1979 Etan Patz case.
Community studio tells cast how to address Dan Harmon firing.
The United States Postal Service gives four great filmmakers its, wait for it, stamp of approval.
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Tags: American Idol, Béla Tarr, Community, Dan Harmon, Etan Patz, Jennifer Egan, Jim Parsons, Phillip Phillips, Richard Brody, Robert Champion, Susan Sontag, The Simpsons, Tumblr, Twitter, U.S. Air Force Academy, United States Postal Service
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How William Alexander Morgan helped win Cuba for Fidel Castro.
Has the film version of Confederacy of Dunces finally found its Ignatius?
Michael Haneke gives his thoughts on his Palme d'Or frontrunner, Amour.
Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Todd McCarthy, and Scott Foundas roll up their sleeves.
More on Cannes from Smith and Foundas here.
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Tags: Amour, Amy Taubin, Baz Luhrmann, Cannes Film Festival, Confederacy of Dunces, Cuba, Dennis Lim, Donna Summer, Facebook, Fidel Castro, Gavin Smith, Grateful Dead, Lee Daniels, Michael Glawogger, Michael Haneke, Morgan Stanley, National Recording Registry, Not a Creature Was Stirring, Scott Foundas, The Great Gatsby, Todd McCarthy, William Alexander Morgan, Woody Allen, Zach Galifianakis
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Dharun Ravi sentenced to 30 days in Tyler Clementi case.
Whitney Houston's last recording is here.
Dan Callahan carries a torch for Glenda Farrell.
Listen to Radiohead's entire Kid A and OK Computer albums as 8-bit video-game music.
4000 Miles and its lead actors win Obie awards.
Abbas Kiarostami is working on Horizontal Process.
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Catherine Keener, Charlie Kaufman, Dan Callahan, Dharun Ravi, Django Unchained, George Lucas, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Weinstein, HBO, Horizontal Process, Kid A, MGM, OK Computer, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Radiohead, The Magnificent Seven, The Master, Tom Cruise, Tyler Clementi, Whitney Houston
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Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden hits like "Jive Talkin'" and "You Should Be Dancing" shot them to worldwide fame in the 1970s, died on Sunday in London.
Adele won a lot of Billboard Music Awards.
Related: the the best (and worst) moments from the show.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky reviews Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom.
Palme d'Or diversity debate rumbles on with new petition.
Jack White attempts a new world record.
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Tags: Aaron Cutler, Adele, American Beauty, Bee Gees, Ben Rivers, Billboard Music Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Guinness World Records, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jack White, James Bond, Jean-Luc Godard, Matt Zoller Seitz, Michael Woods, Moonrise Kingdom, Palme d'Or, Phil Coldiron, Robin Gibb, Sam Mendes, Skyfall, True History of Cinema and Television, Two Years at Sea, Wes Anderson
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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner sequel becomes official.
Related, and a bit belated: Scott breaks his silence on his complex 3D space odyssey Prometheus.
Facebook IPO rises 11% at open.
Chloë Sevigny cried every day she had to wear a fake penis.
The music industry remembers the Queen of Disco.
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Tags: 3D, Arby's, Blade Runner, Chloë Sevigny, Donna Summer, Facebook, Google Maps, Iran, J. Hoberman, Kristen Wiig, Morrisey, NME, Prometheus, Rebekah Brooks, Ridley Scott, The Dictator
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The Queen of Disco is dead.
Richard Corliss updates TIME's All-TIME 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923...the beginning of TIME. (Click here for Corliss's largely cringe-worthy selections for the 10 greatest movies of the millennium, thus far.)
Matt Zoller Seitz on the substance of Wes Anderson's style.
Marion Cottilard knows how to pick them.
It's official: whites account for under half of births in U.S.
Sam Adams interviews Eva Marie Saint.
Fez delights in difficulty.
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Tags: Aaron Cutler, Asghar Farhadi, Bollywood, Caroline Martel, Clear Channel, Donna Summer, Eva Marie Saint, F.W. Murnau, Fez, Industry/Cinema, Marion Cottilard, Matt Zoller Seitz, Richard Brody, Richard Corliss. TIME, Sam Adams, Sunrise, Wes Anderson
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With Cannes underway, reactions to opening selection Moonrise Kingdom are trickling in. Time Out London also has an interview with Wes Anderson.
Will Smith supports President Obama's "bravery."
Check out this toxic Kansas town and its last remaining residents.
Nick Stahl is missing.
Isabelle Huppert joins the cast of David Gordon Green's Suspiria remake.
Is Internet Doomsday real?
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Barack Obama, Cannes Film Festival, Chris Christie, David Gordon Green, gay marriage, Isabelle Huppert, Lady Gaga, lifeboat, Michel Gondry, Moonrise Kingdom, nick stahl, Self-Styled Siren, Suspiria, The Guardian, the we and the i, Time Out London, Wes Anderson, Will Smith
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Salman Rushdie on censorship.
Obama calls for repeal of Defense of Marriage Act.
François Hollande assumes the presidency in France.
Joan Rivers really hates Tom Cruise.
Rebekah Brooks to be prosecuted in hacking case.
Terrence Malick's latest gets a title and rating.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Ellen DeGeneres, France, Francois Hollande, Howard Stern, Indonesia, Joan Rivers, John Irving, Lady Gaga, LMFAO, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Michael Fassbender, Noah Guthrie, Rebekah Brooks, Salman Rushdie, Terrence Malick, To the Wonder, Tom Cruise
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How is Julie Delpy still making movies?
David Phelps previews this year's Migrating Forms.
Dennis Lim interviews Wes Anderson.
A complete guide to the 2012-13 television season for the five broadcast networks, including which shows will return and which ones are dead—and what's coming up.
Is Obama the "first gay president" as Newsweek proclaims?
Diego Sulic on video games and identity.
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Tags: Andrei Tarkovsky, Barack Obama, David Phelps, Dennis Lim, Diego Sulic, gay marriage, Julie Delpy, Migrating Forms, Patrice O'Neal, SNL, Television, Video Games, Wes Anderson
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The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system.
Matt Zoller Seitz asks, "Was season eight of The Office a total disaster?"
Stuart Varney does nada to correct false claim intended to humiliate Occupy Wall Street.
Barack Obama raises a record $15 million at George Clooney fundraiser.
Biff from Back to the Future is tired of your questions.
As Greenpoint gentrifies, Sunday rituals clash.
David Thomson on the mark of Kane.
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Tags: AIDS, Back to the Future, Barack Obama, Brunch, Cannes Film Festival, Church, Citizen Kane, David Thomson, Dr. Sleep, F.D.A., FOX News, George Clooney, Greenpoint, H.I.V., John Stewart, John Travolta, Matt Zoller Seitz, New York City, Occupy Wall Street, Rikers Island, Stephen King, Stuart Varney, The Daily Show, The Office, The Shining, Truvada
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Barack Obama comes out in support of gay marriage.
And Obama is expected to see a fundraising boon in Hollywood.
Meanwhile at Castle Greyskull, Mitt Romney apologies after reports of bullying emerge.
Vidal Sassoon, hairdresser and trendsetter, dies at 84.
Related: a history in haircuts.
Jean-Luc Godard's next film will foist the words "Israel" and "Palestine" at audiences in 3D.
Diego Costa on the aestheticization of Brazilian misery.
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Tags: 3D, Barack Obama, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brazil, Bruce Bennett, Cannes Film Festival, Diego Costa, Film Comment, gay marriage, Grimes, Jean-Luc Godard, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Mitt Romney, Nightmusic, Peter Bradshaw, Robert Koehler, Sasha Frere-Jones, Simon Abrams, Slanted and Enchanted, The Last Temptation of Christ, Vidal Sassoon
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North Carolina voters pass same-sex marriage ban.
David Thomson wishes a happy birthday to Gary Cooper, an American icon we no longer deserve.
Jean Paul Gaultier's rich history as a costume designer deserves praise.
Against Me!'s Tom Gabel comes out as transgender.
Hollywood to produce Kim Dotcom documentary.
Adam Yauch sued over Beastie Boys sampling the day before he died.
Adam Nayman on how New Girl became a winning ensemble comedy.
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Tags: Adam Nayman, Adam Yauch, Against Me!, Beastie Boys, Brian De Palma, CBGB, David Thomson, Gary Cooper, gay marriage, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Edwards, Kim Dotcom, Maurice Sendak, New Girl, noomi rapace, North Carolina, Passion, Rachel McAdams, Stephen Colbert, Tom Gabel, Truvada
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Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying, and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, has died.
A profile on Sendak by Cynthia Zarin published in 2006.
Bob Stewart, a TV producer with a penchant for transforming the seemingly mundane into blockbuster game shows like The Price Is Right and To Tell the Truth, died on Friday.
The five most dream-like sequences in the John Travolta sex-assault lawsuit.
Michiko Kakutani reviews Toni Morrison's Home.
Lena Dunham addresses Girls backlash over lack of racial diversity.
The New York Drama Critics' Circle salute Once, Sons of the Prophet, Mike Nichols, and others.
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Tags: Agnès Varda, Anthony Lane, Barack Obama, Beck's, Bob Stewart, Cynthia Zarin, David Ehrenstein, France, gay marriage, Girls, Home, John Travolta, Lena Dunham, M.I.A., Maurice Sendak, Michiko Kakutani, Mike Nichols, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Once, Peter Watkins, Punishment Park, Sons of the Prophet, The Price Is Right, To Tell the Truth, Toni Morrison
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Socialist François Hollande wins French presidency.
The legacy of Adam Yauch.
Joe Biden endorses gay marriage.
No Doubt announce the release of a new album.
Kate Beckinsale wants her dad inside her vagina.
Guillermo Del Toro says Prometheus killed At the Mountains of Madness.
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Tags: Adam Yauch, André 3000, Animal Collective, At the Mountains of Madness, Beastie Boys, France, Francois Hollande, gay marriage, Guillermo Del Toro, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Biden, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Zuckerberg, MTV Video Music Awards, No Doubt, Prometheus, Stephanie Zacharek
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Mick Jagger to host SNL season finale.
The 15 greatest zombie movie moments.
The Hollywood Reporter lists the 25 top drama schools.
Geoffrey O'Brien on the rapture of silents.
Neil Gaiman shares his reading habits.
Jonathan Rosenbaum reflects on the evolution of Raúl Ruiz's interactivity.
The 20 best designs in sci-fi movies.
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Tags: A.O. Scott, Catching Fire, Francis Lawrence, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mick Jagger, Neil Gaiman, Samuel L. Jackson, SNL, the amazing spider-man, The Hollywood Reporter, Vogue
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Links for the Day: Barack Obama Supports Gay Marriage, Vidal Sassoon R.I.P., Jean-Luc Godard to Shoot in 3D, 20 Best Movies Never Made, & More
by Ed Gonzalez on May 10th, 2012 at 12:39 pm in Links for the Day
Barack Obama comes out in support of gay marriage.
And Obama is expected to see a fundraising boon in Hollywood.
Meanwhile at Castle Greyskull, Mitt Romney apologies after reports of bullying emerge.
Vidal Sassoon, hairdresser and trendsetter, dies at 84.
Related: a history in haircuts.
Jean-Luc Godard's next film will foist the words "Israel" and "Palestine" at audiences in 3D.
Diego Costa on the aestheticization of Brazilian misery.
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Tags: 3D, Barack Obama, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brazil, Bruce Bennett, Cannes Film Festival, Diego Costa, Film Comment, gay marriage, Grimes, Jean-Luc Godard, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Mitt Romney, Nightmusic, Peter Bradshaw, Robert Koehler, Sasha Frere-Jones, Simon Abrams, Slanted and Enchanted, The Last Temptation of Christ, Vidal Sassoon
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