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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Incredibly Transparent The Trump administration’s high-level Signal group chat to which a journalist was somehow invited continued to dominate … Read more

An LED screen more than 16 feet tall. Four smaller ones drifting like clouds. Another that has a kind of walk-on cameo. Five camera operators with their electronic burdens. Nine people dashing every which way with wardrobe, wigs and whatnot. Three million pixels, in case you’re counting. Sixteen million colors. Two cellphones, at least on … Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves? A collage of photos and videos including the actors Robert Redford and Leonard DiCaprio as Gatsby, scenes from “Seinfeld” and “Family Guy,” and an image of the first edition of the book. By A.O. Scott … Read more

It was a minute that changed the course of the “Star Wars” franchise. In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine. After receiving only a glancing mention in the first movie, he could have looked and sounded like anything. A human. A Wookiee. … Read more

Bobby Sherman, the Southern California heartthrob whose success on the television screen and music charts in the late 1960s and early 1970s cemented his teen idol status, has Stage 4 cancer. His wife, Brigitte Poublon, disclosed his diagnosis in a Facebook post on Tuesday, saying that the 81-year-old retired actor and singer was no longer … Read more

Armand LaMontagne, a Rhode Island sculptor who carved 2,000-pound blocks of laminated basswood into life-size renderings of larger-than-life sports figures like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams — two of which, like the players they depicted, ended up in the Baseball Hall of Fame — died on March 7 at his home in North Scituate, R.I. … Read more

Posing as a musician and a collector, a California man persuaded a violin shop in Virginia to send him a number of valuable instruments on a trial basis, federal law-enforcement officials said. The shop shipped him an 1823 violin valued at $175,000, another from 1903 worth $55,000 and three bows worth $5,000, the officials said. … Read more

A lot of TV sports documentaries in the post-“Drive to Survive” world take a broad, rudimentary and personality-driven approach: Make the sport welcoming to new viewers, and give extant fans new access to their faves. After “The Last Dance,” we also got a wave of sit-down interviews and ostensible introspection — the stories behind the … Read more

Pilar Viladas, a veteran writer and editor whose human touch and encyclopedic knowledge of architecture, design and art history gave her work a quiet authority, died on March 15 at a hospital near her home in Southbury, Conn. She was 70. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, her sister Luisa Viladas … Read more

Animated movies, like those from the famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, are not made in a hurry. The intricate hand drawings and attention paid to every single detail can make for a slow, potentially yearslong process. Or, you could simply ask ChatGPT to turn any old photo into a facsimile of Mr. Miyazaki’s work in … Read more