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Margot Robbie stars as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Mary Queen of Scots. "Right now we're making a push — I feel more than I've ever experienced — to have more women in leadership roles," Robbie says.

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The Cost Of Being Queen: 'Mary' Explores The Sacrifices Of Women In Power

7:53am December 02, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Margot Robbie is Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots. "We re-examine history as a way of understanding what's happening in our present time, and where we're heading in the future," she says.

Matthew Macfadyen (right) and Stephen Mangan played Jeeves and Wooster, respectively, in Perfect Nonsense, a 2013 stage production. The characters were first created by comic author P.G. Wodehouse.

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Jeeves And Wooster, But Make It A Modern Spy Novel

7:53am December 02, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Ben Shott has taken the iconic P.G. Wodehouse comic characters (with the blessing of the Wodehouse estate) and twisted "five degrees to starboard" in his new novel Jeeves and the King of Clubs.

How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie

7:04am December 02, 2018

by Rachel D. Cohen

In Liyana, filmmakers let kids make up the story. The hybrid documentary/animated film has earned prizes, raves — and a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, by Matthias Enard

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Tell Them Of 'Battles, Kings,' And Michelangelo On The Bosporus

7:00am December 02, 2018

by Juan Vidal

Mathias Énard's novel — newly translated from French — imagines what would have happened if Michelangelo had accepted an offer from the Ottoman ruler to design a bridge across the Golden Horn.

Author Glory Edim uses her literary society to signal boost emerging black women writers.

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'Well-Read Black Girl' Turns Books Into Community

6:00am December 02, 2018

by Andrea Y. Henderson

With her new anthology, Glory Edim says she wants to "capture the energy and vibrancy of what it means to be a black woman in the literary space."

Peter Farrelly appears onstage at the 2018 British Academy Britannia Awards on Oct. 26, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Not My Job: We Quiz 'Something About Mary' Director Peter Farrelly On Dairy

11:30am December 01, 2018

Before Farrelly directed Green Book, he became famous, along with his brother Bobby, for raucous comedies such as There's Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber.

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In The Front Runner, Hugh Jackman plays Gary Hart, whose 1987 presidential campaign was swiftly derailed by reports of an extramarital affair.

What 'The Front Runner' And Gary Hart Tell Us About Political Theater Today

11:09pm November 30, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Matt Bai and Jay Carson wrote the screenplay of a new drama about the swift 1987 downfall of the Democratic presidential candidate — an event Bai says has a "direct throughline" to President Trump.

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Ricky Jay performs his show Ricky Jay & his 52 Assistants at the Tiffany Theatre in Los Angeles in 1996.

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Ricky Jay Remembered, From The Wings: An Assistant's Thoughts On The Late Magician

6:14pm November 30, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Critic Chris Klimek offers a remembrance of the late illusionist, author and actor Ricky Jay, for whom he worked as a personal assistant over a decade ago.

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Remembering Master Magician And Sleight-Of-Hand Artist Ricky Jay

12:40pm November 30, 2018

by Terry Gross

Jay, who died Sunday, was an avid scholar of con games and could make cards disappear and reappear in ways that seemed impossible. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1987, 1998 and 2002.

First-time actress Yalitza Aparicio plays Cleo, the live-in housekeeper and nanny of a middle-class Mexican family, in Roma.

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Overly Orchestrated 'Roma' Is An Epic Of Everyday Life In Mexico

12:40pm November 30, 2018

by Justin Chang

Critic Justin Chang says the immaculate staging of Alfonso Cuarón's new film is both an asset and a liability: "There's something curiously showy about the unshowiness of Roma."