Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow's messy breakup with Woody Allen, has died. She was 35. Lark Previn...
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An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet,...
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An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as filmmaker Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. Allen, playing the clarinet,...
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Europeans get jazz and they get Woody Allen — more so than they do in America, the native land of both the filmmaker and the music form he loves. Allen may prefer to...
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Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles?
It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera.
The New York...
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David Bowie will bring hot indie
band Arcade Fire, English comedian Ricky Gervais, and an
87-year-old spoken-word poet to the inaugural High Line
Festival, which will take...
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Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz
Band will open this year's Rochester International Jazz
Festival in a benefit for musicians thrown out of work by
Hurricane Katrina,...
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Woody Allen wants to help the birthplace of jazz recover its old rhythm.
The 70-year-old filmmaker and clarinet player will open the fifth annual Rochester International...
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Sidney Bechet's clarinet, soprano saxophone and love letters were scheduled to go on the auction block Wednesday.
Among the 32 pieces up for sale at the Hotel Drouot...
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Imagine the Beatles hailed from another port city, on the other side of the Atlantic — like Newark, N.J. They would be Italian, capisce? Forget Brian Epstein and the...
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Writer/director Adam
Rifkin ("Detroit Rock City," "Small Soldiers") has started
casting on his next feature, "Homo Erectus," a comedy set in
prehistoric times.
Described...
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It's not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a...
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Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
• Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site,...
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After some 20 years playing unconventional heroes, it's surprising to discover that John Cusack looks classically heroic in the flesh.
In a hotel promoting the new...
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Ruth Laredo, the elegant pianist who recorded the entire solo works of Rachmaninoff and the sonatas of Scriabin, has died. She was 67.
Laredo died Wednesday in her...
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Jeff Daniels was in town to do radio
and perform at Jim Caruso's popular "Cast Party," the Monday
night open-mic gathering at Birdland for Broadway show people.
(Theaters...
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan. Plus Abraham.
They are members of a Christian boy band, characters at the center of "Altar Boyz," a new musical arriving March 1 at Dodger...
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Maxim rocks. And he rolls, and he's about to tango. But first, Beethoven.
The great violinist Maxim Vengerov began the New York Philharmonic's 163rd season Tuesday night...
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Singer-actress Courtney Love ,
facing mounting legal problems due to drug possession and
assault charges in two states, has postponed a summer concert
tour just days before...
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Bobby Short , who became an elegant institution with his performances at the swanky Cafe Carlyle for 36 years, will end his run on New Year's Eve.
"I'm not retiring. I...
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"We've gotten known in
Britain for making the smaller films," British comic and
self-described "executive transvestite" Eddie Izzard has joked,
riffing on the difference...
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