Last year, the hit West End musical “Operation Mincemeat” embarked on a mischievous publicity campaign. “Are we too British for Broadway?” it asked, inviting Americans on its email list and via social media to fill out an online questionnaire about whether, for instance, they had trouble understanding British accents. (“No,” 90.2 percent of the respondents … Read more
Henry’s father died during filmmaking. Henry came back to set to shoot an unusually taxing scene in which an infected gunshot wound leaves Ray delirious. Looking up from the floor, he was surrounded by pictures of himself as a child in his father’s house. (He had lent them to the set decorating team.) He felt … Read more
Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, March 6-10. Details and times are subject to change. They’re on the case. It’s been a little while since we last saw Amanda Seyfried on the … Read more
Even if I’m wrong, the robbery subplot remains a major part of this season, and it could be what gets us eventually to the gunshots and the corpse we saw in the season premiere’s flash-forward. For now, what matters about the robbery is that it leads to a meeting between the gatekeeper, Gaitok, and his … Read more
Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with cartography, Volkswagen Beetles, urban walking, jokes and sexual fetishes, many of which were enduring interests of Mr. Nicholson himself — died on Jan. 18 in Colchester, England, northeast of London. He was 71. His death, … Read more
Survivors include his second wife, Ms. Fourie, his daughter from his first marriage, Lisa Fugard, two children from his second marriage, Halle and Lanigan, and a grandson. An ‘Ugly’ Experience The Fugards moved to Johannesburg in the late 1950s, and for three months Mr. Fugard took a job as a clerk in a court that … Read more
David Sellers, a maverick architect who helped start the design-build movement, creating a community of like-minded innovators near the tiny town of Warren, Vt., died on Feb. 9 in Los Angeles. He was 86. Mr. Sellers was in California visiting his son, Parker Sellers, to work on a house they had designed together and to … Read more
Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in … Read more
In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played on Mr. Harrison’s triple album “All Things Must Pass” (1970), for example, and Mr. Molland and Mr. Evans backed John Lennon on some tracks of his watershed 1971 album, … Read more
The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is Merle Oberon’s. In 1936, Merle … Read more