Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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June 4 marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. To find out how Chinese dissidents have fared since then, we’re revisiting an interview with historian Ian Buruma. He’s the author of "Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing."
Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
He recently produced a set of CDs for the BBC that include rare recordings of the prominent writers.
Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art. She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.
Punk legend Patti Smith. 40 years ago, she came out with the seminal punk album Horses –with cover photo by her friend and lover Robert Mappelthorpe.
If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.
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