“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

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Richard Smallwood, a singer-songwriter and pianist, died Tuesday at the Brooke Grove Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Maryland. He was 77. A rep for Smallwood told Variety that Smallwood died of ...

The Princess of Wales personally requested compoer Erland Cooper to watch her and Princess Charlotte perform his piece, Holm Sound, at Windsor Castle for tonight's Together At Christmas on ITV ...

Taylor Hackford is an Oscar-winning filmmaker and former president of the Directors Guild of America. His films include “An ...

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