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LGBTQ filmmakers refuse to let Israel use them to pinkwash its crimes

Israeli culture minister Miri Regev, who has compared Africans to cancer, right, with 2018 Eurovision Song ... reflecting broad Palestine solidarity in Irish society. In April, Dublin City Council bec... read more

Legendary Actor Gregory Peck Celebrated on His 100th

“It’s a very personal and intimate website that honors his great acting work, his commitment to social justice, his Irish humor ... Chairman of the American Film Institute. He was National Chairman of ... read more

WORLD Report on LGBTQ groups, Costa Rica marriage, Kenyan HIV lab

Rashid Aman, chief administrative secretary in the ministry of health, said the launch ... The Irish prime minister told how this will prevent "particularly nasty" diseases in men related to the human ... read more

Meet the Grandma Behind VW's New Family-Oriented Marketing for Bigger Vehicles

VW is making its appeal ... it posted at an Irish cultural center in Boston, where she lives. She had never been in a TV commercial, or done much acting at all, unless you count the time she played a ... read more

From the Archives: Former President Reagan Dies at 93

Ronald Reagan, the Hollywood actor who became one of the most popular ... Once, after surgery for colon cancer, he told reporters: "I didn't have cancer. I had something inside of me that had cancer i... read more

Barbara Broccoli: Films should represent the diverse world we live in

The executive producer of the James Bond movies has called for film and television to “represent the culture ... time” for the industry to embrace inclusivity. Speaking at the launch of the LSA, a fre... read more

If You're Traveling In The North Country: From Williamstown To MASS MoCA

And despite the best efforts of Roger St. Pierre, proprietor of St. Pierre’s Barbershop, to champion the Red Sox — “only 3 hours from Fenway Park,” reads his Spring Street shingle — Williamstown ... t... read more

Yip Harburg: Father of the Socially Conscious Lyric

The youngest of four children, Yip fought in street gangs against Italians and Irish. But ... the loss of his elder brother to cancer and then his mother, he became agnostic. “The House of God never h... read more

Broadway Bookshelf - Must Read Theater Books

The product of a fragmented, working-class Boston Irish family, Bolger learned tap and ecc ... success of this particular play which propelled the notoriety and appeal of the story, and without the su... read more

The 50 Best Movie Musicals of All Time

S.H. "High Society" can't really hold a candle to "The ... It's true that the sequels were basically abominations, but this film also has a unique musical legacy: Aykroyd went on to launch the House o... read more

'Steve Jobs' review: Danny Boyle's biopic a thrilling examination of Apple icon

These are all real-life characters from Jobs’ life from the 1970s through the launch of the iMac ... Steve Jobs the film is not sentimental. Jobs’ own life ended on Oct. 5, 2011, when he died of cance... read more

Jess Walter

Credit: Robert Birnbaum Novelist Jess Walter, a proud son of Spokane ... I was in Italy. My mom was dying of cancer. We went to the Cinque Terra. I invented this little town, and in my mind it would b... read more