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Yes, you read that headline correctly: Director Ridley Scott (”Gladiator,” “Thelma and Louise”) is making a movie about Ronald Reagan. Here are the details.

According to Variety:
Yes, he’s dead.
Broadway comedy “Is He Dead?” will close at the Lyceum Theater on March 9, making way for a limited spring run of “Macbeth,” starring Patrick Stewart.
“Dead,” the preem of a recently unearthed Mark Twain comedy, earned strongly positive reviews after its … Read more »

Yesterday, the media trumpeted the fact that Sunday’s Oscars — yeah, they were pretty boring — were low-rated: “only” an average of 32 million tuned in at any given time. We were told that this year’s high-rated Super Bowl, by contrast, got up into the … Read more »

It was historic: the New York Philharmonic performed in N. Korea.

It’s what you’ve been waiting to hear: Matt Damon is going to do a fourth “Bourne” movie.

“When we hear ‘Mozart’ or ‘Beethoven,’ we think of a person behind the music. When we hear ‘Bach,’ we think of music only.” That’s not the only pinging insight in this essay.

I’m pleased to report that lemonwade’s Oscar prognosticator, Rex Okpodu, scored an impressive 9 for 10 in his predictions. His only misstep was in Supporting Actress: he picked Ruby Dee instead of Tilda Swinton.

Some people I know have complained that the universally loved play “August: Osage County,” now on Broadway, gets off to a slow start. The first scene features an 70something gentleman, who is also a poet and former professor, putting back the liquor and talking about … Read more »