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Ethan Slater appears on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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Ethan Slater And Kyle Jarrow: Squarely SpongeBob

11:06am June 01, 2018

Ethan Slater, star of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, shares his journey to his Tony nomination and SpongeBob's book-writer, Kyle Jarrow, plays a game about sad songs with a spongy twist.

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Advice For 'Grown-Ups' In Their 40s: 'Just Do What You Want More Often'

7:20am June 01, 2018

by Mary Louise Kelly

Author Pamela Druckerman says she's reached a "now-or-never phase of life." Her new book There Are No Grown-Ups is a coming-of-age story — for people whose age is 40.

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Arquette: After Rejecting Weinstein, 'I Had A Completely Different Career'

11:13pm May 31, 2018

Rosanna Arquette, one of the first actresses to come forward regarding a sexually abusive encounter with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, says the charges against him aren't the result of a "witch hunt."

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American Animals tells the mostly-true story of four young boys who attempt to pull off a rare book heist. (L-R: Jared Abrahamson, Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan)

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Life Tries Clumsily To Imitate Art In 'American Animals'

5:01pm May 31, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

A heist isn't as easy as the movies might lead you to believe. That's the lesson learned by four brats who try to steal expensive rare books in a fact-based story about being terrible at crime.

In A Kid Like Jake, Greg (Jim Parsons) is the father of a child engaging in gender expansive play.

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'A Kid Like Jake' Doesn't Have Enough Jake

5:01pm May 31, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

A film about rich parents using their child's gender expression to get him into preschool doesn't spend enough time getting to know Jake or enough time looking closely at his parents.

The celebrated french sculptor Auguste Rodin (played by Vincent Lindon) is the subject of the aptly titled Rodin. The film tells the story of the artist's romance with Camille Claudel.

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'Rodin' Shines As A Story Of Both Artist And Art

5:00pm May 31, 2018

by Ella Taylor

While many biographies of artists focus on their tortured personal lives, Rodin maintains a close focus on sculpture itself and what makes it last.

In Adrift, two free-spirited lovers (Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley) take an ambitious sailing trip...that's complicated by the arrival of a hurricane.

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'Adrift' In Time And Water, Lovers Battle To Find A Course

5:00pm May 31, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Adrift, starring Sam Claflin and Shailene Woodley, could have been a generic disaster film, if not for some clever editing that helps pull together its themes.

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A Birdbrained Library Heist Is Suffused With Irony In 'American Animals'

2:12pm May 31, 2018

by David Edelstein

In 2004, four young men stole rare art books valued at more than three-quarters of a million dollars from a college library. American Animals blends fiction and documentary to retell the story.

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André Leon Talley remembers paging through Vogue for the first time as a child — it was like falling down a "rabbit hole" into "a world of glamour," he says. Talley is the subject of a new documentary called The Gospel According to André. He is shown

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For 'Vogue' Titan André Leon Talley, Fashion Was A 'Gateway To The World'

1:27pm May 31, 2018

by Terry Gross

Talley felt like a misfit growing up — until he stumbled upon a copy of the iconic fashion magazine. Paging through Vogue, he says, was like traveling down a "rabbit hole" into "a world of glamour."

"Energy: A Human History" by Richard Rhodes

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What Does Shakespeare Have To Do With 'Energy'? (Trust Us, There's A Link)

9:05am May 31, 2018

by Michael Schaub

In his new book, Richard Rhodes lays out an accessible and surprisingly optimistic history of energy by exploring the lives of scientists and inventors — and a few unlikely people, like Bard of Avon.