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What's streaming now: Nicki Minaj's birthday album, Julia Roberts is in trouble and Monk returns
Read full article: What's streaming now: Nicki Minaj's birthday album, Julia Roberts is in trouble and Monk returnsThis weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include a Nicki Minaj album dropping on her birthday and the return of Tony Shalhoub's OCD private investigator Adrian Monk with a final case.
New this week: 'Don't Look Up,' new 'Matrix' and 'Sing 2'
Read full article: New this week: 'Don't Look Up,' new 'Matrix' and 'Sing 2'This weekโs new entertainment releases include fresh music from U2 as part of the soundtrack for the animated โSing 2,โ a marathon of holiday films on TCM and the end-of-the-world comedy โDonโt Look Up.โ.
Clooney, 'Billie Holiday' among AARP movie award honorees
Read full article: Clooney, 'Billie Holiday' among AARP movie award honoreesThis image released by Paramount Pictures shows Andra Day in "The United States vs Billie Holiday." (Takashi Seida/Paramount Pictures via AP)โThe United States vs. Billie Holiday,โ โMinari,โ โDa 5 Bloodsโ and โOne Night in Miamiโ are among the films AARP is honoring at its annual Movies for Grownups Awards, the nonprofit organization said Thursday. Director Lee Danielsโ โThe United States vs. Billie Holiday,โ starring Andra Day as the jazz singer, was named best picture, while the Korean American family drama โMinariโ got best intergenerational film. โWe focus on films made by and for grownups,โ said Tim Appelo, the film and television critic for AARP. Catherine OโHara took best actress for โSchittโs Creek,โ Mark Ruffalo got best actor for โI Know This Much is Trueโ and โThis Is Usโ was named best series.
Sean Connery, a lion of cinema whose roar went beyond Bond
Read full article: Sean Connery, a lion of cinema whose roar went beyond BondFILE - This March 4, 1992 file photo shows actor Sean Connery during a news conference in Hamburg, Germany. Connery, considered by many to have been the best James Bond, has died aged 90, according to an announcement from his family. (AP Photo/Christian Eggers, File)Writing an appreciation of Sean Connery feels inevitably inadequate compared to experiencing the real thing. Conneryโs Bond became etched as an icon of its era, one increasingly distant from today. That could be because the glint of mischief that accompanied nearly every Connery performance was so present in โThe Last Crusade.โ Connery always left you feeling if not shaken then very happily stirred.
Famed jewel thief, surf champ 'Murf the Surf' dies at 83
Read full article: Famed jewel thief, surf champ 'Murf the Surf' dies at 83Murphy's death earlier this week was confirmed by John Hughes, director of the Florida Surf Museum in Cocoa Beach, Florida, who has been in touch with Murphy's friends and family members. In 1969, he was convicted of killing Terry Rae Frank, 24, and sentenced to life in prison. โI found God in prison,โ Murphy told the Tampa Bay Times a few years ago. He won other titles, leading to his induction in the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame in 1996. It was in Florida where he got his nickname, according to a post on the surf hall of fame website.
Famed architect Paul Williams' archive goes to Getty, USC
Read full article: Famed architect Paul Williams' archive goes to Getty, USCPaul Williams was a trailblazing architect whose long career helped shape Los Angeles and Southern California. The Los Angeles County Courthouse, Los Angeles International Airport and First African Methodist Church were among the projects he led or worked on. He was the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects, its first African American Fellow and the first African American recipient of the institute's Gold Medal, its highest honor. Born in Los Angeles in 1894, Williams was orphaned following the death of his father at age 2 and his mother at age 4. The archives will be a central feature of the USC Center for Architecture + City Design and the African American Art History Initiative at Getty.