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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/arts/bill-kurtis-retires-npr-wait-wait-dont-tell-me.html

As the irreverent quiz show’s judge and scorekeeper, Kurtis, a former news anchor known for his rich voice, has helped find comedy in current events since 2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/arts/bill-kurtis-retires-npr-wait-wait-dont-tell-me.html

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Posted by Natalia Winkelman

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/movies/fukushima-a-nuclear-nightmare-review.html

This documentary offers a rundown of the 2011 nuclear meltdown with special attention to the shift workers who risked their lives while trying to stabilize the plant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/movies/fukushima-a-nuclear-nightmare-review.html

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Posted by Alexis Soloski and Amy Harrity

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/arts/television/michelle-pfeiffer-the-madison.html

At 67, the actress is still reinventing herself, with two new TV shows, “The Madison” and “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” and an evolving attitude about her work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/arts/television/michelle-pfeiffer-the-madison.html

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Posted by Marc Tracy, Léo Hamelin and Laura Salaberry

https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000010747142/best-picture-oscars-academy-awards-ballot-preferential.html

Best picture is the only Oscar category decided by preferential ballot. Our reporter Marc Tracy explains how that works.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000010747142/best-picture-oscars-academy-awards-ballot-preferential.html

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Posted by Manohla Dargis, Stephanie Goodman, Mekado Murphy, Maya Salam and Alissa Wilkinson

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/movies/worst-casting-actors-movies.html

A new Oscar celebrates the process of matching actor and role. But whether a star is hired for artistic or box office reasons, mismatches can be memorable. Here our favorites from recent decades. What do you think?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/movies/worst-casting-actors-movies.html

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tudor-courtiers-exchanged-portrait-miniatures-as-love-tokens-centuries-later-new-research-is-unlocking-the-secrets-of-these-intimate-artworks-180988300/

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist, Nicholas Hilliard

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Posted by Margaret Fuhrer

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/arts/dance/testament-of-ann-lee-dance.html

“The Testament of Ann Lee” and Shaker traditions represent how movement has been a constantly evolving conduit to heaven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/arts/dance/testament-of-ann-lee-dance.html

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Posted by Esther Zuckerman

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/movies/oscars-casting-award-auditions-movies.html

What once involved an actor and a casting director in a room is now a technologically advanced exercise with pros and cons for performers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/movies/oscars-casting-award-auditions-movies.html

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Posted by Sarah Bahr

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/television/bobby-cannavale-bearded-dragon-scarpetta.html

“I spend an hour a day quietly with this guy, whether it’s feeding him, cleaning out the tank, having him chill with me,” the actor said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/television/bobby-cannavale-bearded-dragon-scarpetta.html

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Posted by Alex Williams

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/alan-trustman-dead.html

In a wide-ranging career, he was a member of a Boston white-shoe firm, a Swiss currency trader and a Hollywood screenwriter (“Bullitt” was another of his scripts).

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/alan-trustman-dead.html

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Posted by Gia Kourlas

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/dance/timothee-chalamet-ballet-opera.html

This art form is alive, and Chalamet, who comes from a dance family, knows it. But what value does ballet have for the world at large?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/dance/timothee-chalamet-ballet-opera.html

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Posted by Richard Sandomir

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/jeremy-larner-dead.html

His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/jeremy-larner-dead.html

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Posted by Tom Delavan

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/t-magazine/bonjour-tristesse-vase.html

We help a reader find a prop seen in Durga Chew-Bose’s debut film “Bonjour Tristesse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/t-magazine/bonjour-tristesse-vase.html

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Posted by The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/marilyn-monroe-dead.html

One of the most famous stars in Hollywood, she suffered severe setbacks in the last years of her life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/marilyn-monroe-dead.html

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Posted by Robert D. McFadden

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/natalie-wood-dead.html

Natalie Wood evolved from a child star into a teenage ingénue and then a mature actress, until her trajectory was tragically cut short.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/natalie-wood-dead.html

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Posted by Peter B. Flint

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/marlene-dietrich-dead.html

“Dietrich is something that never existed before and may never exist again,” the actor Maurice Chevalier said of her. “That’s a woman.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/marlene-dietrich-dead.html

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Posted by John Anderson

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/agnes-varda-dead.html

She was closely associated with the film movement known as the New Wave, although her reimagining of cinematic conventions predated it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/agnes-varda-dead.html

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Posted by Special to The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/judy-garland-dead.html

She dazzled audiences in “The Wizard of Oz” and “A Star Is Born,” but her successes were later overshadowed by addiction and other struggles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/judy-garland-dead.html

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Posted by Richard Severo

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/hedy-lamarr-dead.html

A temptress on the silver screen in the 1930s and ’40s, she later became an inventor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/hedy-lamarr-dead.html

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Posted by Special to The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/josephine-baker-dead.html

She performed with a string of bananas tied around her waist, an electrifying act that led her to become first a local sensation in Paris, and then an international star.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/josephine-baker-dead.html

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Posted by Alan Riding

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/world/europe/leni-riefenstahl-dead.html

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of Hitler.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/world/europe/leni-riefenstahl-dead.html

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Posted by The Associated Press

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/anna-may-wong-dead.html

With a film career spanning three decades, Miss Wong, who rose to stardom with “The Thief of Baghdad,” was acclaimed as a versatile and talented performer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/anna-may-wong-dead.html

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Posted by Devika Girish

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/international-movies-streaming.html

This month’s picks include a Mexican drama, a Japanese crime thriller, an absurdist French comedy and more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/international-movies-streaming.html

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Posted by The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html

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Posted by Jonathan Abrams

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/music/three-six-mafia-oscars-anniversary.html

Twenty years ago, Three 6 Mafia’s Oscars triumph for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” helped an uptight awards show loosen up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/music/three-six-mafia-oscars-anniversary.html

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Posted by Alissa Wilkinson

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/immutable-pbs-review.html

“Immutable” is about young debaters in a league in Washington, D.C., as well as about the skill itself in a world where yelling can seem the norm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/immutable-pbs-review.html

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Posted by Robert Daniels

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/war-machine-review.html

The “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson can’t troubleshoot this alien invasion sci-fi flick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/movies/war-machine-review.html

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Posted by Helen Shaw

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/theater/what-we-did-before-our-moth-days-review.html

The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/theater/what-we-did-before-our-moth-days-review.html

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Posted by Manohla Dargis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/pompei-below-the-clouds-review.html

The past and the present converge in this ravishingly beautiful Italian documentary set in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/pompei-below-the-clouds-review.html

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Posted by Beatrice Loayza

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/protector-review.html

Milla Jovovich plays a mother whose wrath is unleashed when her daughter is kidnapped in this brooding revenge thriller.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/protector-review.html

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Posted by Alex Marshall

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/theater/chadwick-boseman-deep-azure.html

The actor Chadwick Boseman was a playwright, too. At Shakespeare’s Globe in London, his “Deep Azure” is drawing attention to a lost talent inspired by the Bard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/theater/chadwick-boseman-deep-azure.html

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-pearl-harbor-americans-living-in-japan-endured-imprisonment-torture-and-a-lengthy-battle-to-return-home-180988258/

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese during World War II

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-pearl-harbor-americans-living-in-japan-endured-imprisonment-torture-and-a-lengthy-battle-to-return-home-180988258/

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Posted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/arts/druski-popcast-timothee-chalamet-skits.html

The comedian is building a galaxy of collaborators — Timothée Chalamet, Kai Cenat and Justin Bieber — and telling us how they fit into his future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/arts/druski-popcast-timothee-chalamet-skits.html

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Posted by Jeannette Catsoulis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/heel-review.html

A loutish teenager is shown the error of his ways in this absurdly gripping psychological thriller.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/heel-review.html

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Posted by Manohla Dargis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/the-bride-review.html

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/the-bride-review.html

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Posted by Calum Marsh

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/the-napa-boys-review-you-had-me-at-merlot.html

This unclassifiable postmodern spoof, from the comedians Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, is a strange, circuitous trip through California wine country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/the-napa-boys-review-you-had-me-at-merlot.html

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Posted by Glenn Kenny

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/youngblood-review.html

A remake of the 1986 crowd-pleasing hockey movie, starring Ashton James as a promising young Black player, has a lot more on its mind than the original.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/youngblood-review.html

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Posted by Alissa Wilkinson

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/hoppers-review.html

The latest Pixar movie centers on pudgy beavers and a spunky teenager determined to save their habitat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/hoppers-review.html

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Posted by Ben Kenigsberg

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/andre-is-an-idiot-review-dying-laughing.html

In this documentary, an ad man who treats life with irreverence tries to approach his death from colon cancer the same way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/andre-is-an-idiot-review-dying-laughing.html

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Posted by Erik Piepenburg

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/dolly-review.html

A backwoods monster with a twisted doll obsession puts a couple through the wringer in this unflinching exploitation fairy tale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/movies/dolly-review.html

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Posted by Noel Murray

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/arts/television/movies-tv-shows-march-2026-streaming.html

A new Bill Lawrence comedy starring Steve Carell and a new mystery starring Nicole Kidman are among this month’s highlights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/arts/television/movies-tv-shows-march-2026-streaming.html

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Posted by Robert Ito

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/bride-frankenstein-maggie-gyllenhaal.html

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/bride-frankenstein-maggie-gyllenhaal.html

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Posted by Mekado Murphy

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/hamnet-clip.html

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. The movie is nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/hamnet-clip.html

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Posted by Kyle Buchanan

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/oscar-actresses-reality-tv-emma-stone-teyana-taylor.html

Hollywood careers don’t always begin where you expect them to, as Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor and Emma Stone could tell you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/movies/oscar-actresses-reality-tv-emma-stone-teyana-taylor.html

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Posted by Mekado Murphy

https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000010747181/hamnet-scene.html

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her Oscar-nominated film, featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000010747181/hamnet-scene.html

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Title: fever
Fandoms: Bridgerton
Pairings: Anthony/Benedict/Kate
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon Divergence AU. Established Relationship/Triad.
Summary: In which Anthony and Kate return from India, to find Benedict with a fever.
Notes: Written for

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100ships prompt tea, and

100fandoms prompt rain. Also thanks to writersisland@tumblr for their "Flu/Cold Prompts" - “You’re hot.” “Thank you, love, but I don’t think right now is the time to—“ “You’re burning up. You have a fever.” “Oh.” It reminded me of Benedict's fever from Season 4 which inspired me to write all this.

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