Music
What Inspires Singer Simone
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Pop Culture
Long-Term Investments On Shaky Stocks: 'New Girl' And 'Smash' End Their Seasons
()Commentator Marc Hirsh considers the viewer investment required to let an uneven pilot develop as a series, and how that process went very differently for two of this season's most hyped shows.
New & Notable
- Hardcover Nonfiction: 'Goodnight iPad'
- Hardcover Fiction: 'Explosive Eighteen'
- Paperback Nonfiction: 'Awkward Family Pet Photos'
- Paperback Fiction: 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'
Television
How TV Brought Gay People Into Our Homes()
May 12, 2012 From Will and Grace to Modern Family, studies show getting to know gay characters on television has changed Americans' attitudes toward homosexuality. One researcher says it's an effect that could snowball.
What Not To Wear... On The Radio()
May 11, 2012 What do you get when you throw Leonard Bernstein, a 19th-century murderer, and the CEO of Goldman Sachs in a room together? Perhaps the best R.E.M. song ever. In this hour, contestants create horrific hybrids like Dr. Moreau, rewrite some outdated Cole Porter lyrics, and join this week's Mystery Guest to evaluate their own signature flourish.
It's All Politics
Obama Heads To Hollywood; Conservative Group Mocks 'Celebrity President'()
May 10, 2012 On Thursday, some of Hollywood's top stars and deepest pockets will congregate at the Studio City, Calif., home of actor George Clooney to mingle with President Obama and raise money for his re-election campaign. At least one conservative group is deriding Obama as a "celebrity president."
Movies
'Dark Shadows': The Birth Of The Modern TV Vampire()
May 10, 2012 When it comes to monsters on television, vampires have the market cornered. And so popular are TV vampires that opening this weekend is a movie based on the grand-sire of all vampire TV shows: Dark Shadows. Elizabeth Blair takes a look at the evolution of a TV character that will never die.
Celebrity Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon Dies At 84()
May 9, 2012 Sassoon developed a popular line of shampoos and styling products bearing his name. His slogan was "If you don't look good, we don't look good."
