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Producer Brian Grazer will replace Brett Ratner at this year’s Oscars.
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Variety takes a look at Caroline Hirsch, the grande dame of New York comedy.
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Jed Perl has some nice things to say about the exhibit of Islamic art at the Met.
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Steven Spielberg’s name has been blacked out of Tintin posters in Beirut.
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Roger Ebert needs money to keep his TV show going.
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Israeli art curator Marie Shek and illustrator Michel Kichka were each made a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French ambassador to Israel.
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Joyce Brabner talks to the Maimi New Times about her late husband, Harvey Pekar.
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Actor Sid Melton and Dante translator Allen Mandelbaum have died.
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