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The Theater Development Fund In New York Takes Playing Dress-Up To Another Level

5:18pm September 29, 2017

The largest costume rental business in New York City is not a business at all, but the non-profit organization that runs the city's discount ticket booths.

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner often spoke of how he would one day be entombed in the plot he'd bought next to Marilyn Monroe. Her crypt is at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

Hugh Hefner's Final Resting Place? The Plot He Bought Next To Marilyn Monroe

4:51pm September 29, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Monroe, who died in 1962, didn't get a say in whether she would want to spend the hereafter next to Hefner, who launched his magazine using nude photos of her.

Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm character is an exaggerated version of himself.

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'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Returns, And Larry David Is Back To Playing Himself

2:07pm September 29, 2017

by David Bianculli

David's comically exaggerated TV version of himself first appeared 18 years ago. TV critic David Bianculli welcomes the character's return to HBO.

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Yom Kippur break fasts are notoriously epic — all manner of smoked fishes and delicate pastries are piled high on the best china (or, if you're feeding dozens, paper plates). For many of those gathered around a table heaped with traditional Eastern Euro

How Yom Kippur Fasts Became All About The Feasts

1:46pm September 29, 2017

by Deena Prichep

The Jewish holiday of reflection and hope tends to bring everyone to the heaping table of traditional foods when fasting is over, But celebrating with a huge feast was not always the case.

Hugh Hefner at his Playboy Mansion home in 2006.

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Hugh Hefner On Early 'Playboy' And Changing America's Values

1:30pm September 29, 2017

by Terry Gross

In 1999, Hefner told Fresh Air that his magazine was a reaction to his own upbringing. "I believe and hope that Playboy [has] played some small part in changing the values ... of our time," he said.

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Larry David On His 'Curb' Persona: 'The Character Has Emboldened Me'

1:29pm September 29, 2017

After years playing a version of himself on the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, David has a distinct comic sensibility and a very recognizable voice and persona. Originally broadcast March 5, 2015.

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Amy Seimetz: Based On The Hit Movie

11:55am September 29, 2017

Amy Seimetz tells us about adapting 'The Girlfriend Experience' into a format-breaking series.

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New York City-based poets Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov — the voices behind the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets" — aim to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac.

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2 Viral Twitter Poets Are Rewriting The Book On Astrology

11:51am September 29, 2017

by Danny Nett

Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets want to bring astrology up to speed with shifting views of gender, sexuality and pop culture.

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Untwisted Tongue Twisters

11:35am September 29, 2017

We threw a throng of common tongue twisters through a thesaurus to toss together this thrilling task. Can you guess the tongue-twisting phrase from its literal description?

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This, That, Or The Other

11:35am September 29, 2017

Is "Sticky Icky" a discontinued frozen Slurpee flavor, a Yankee Candle scent, or an obstacle from the Nickelodeon game show 'Double Dare?'

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