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☆ ‘The Love Boat’: How a TV show transformed the cruise industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

‘Greatest product placement’"The Love Boat" centered around the adventures of the crew and passenger on board a luxury cruise ship. “‘The Love Boat’ really created the cruise industry,” Michael L. Grace, who worked as a scriptwriter on the program during the 1980s, told CNN Travel in 2022. During the 1980s, almost 40 new cruise ships were constructed, including Tropicale, from Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Princess, Princess Cruises’ first purpose-built cruise ship. Princess Cruises“The Love Boat” may also have played a part in the heavy entertainment focus we see on modern-day cruise ships. Outlandish musical performances were often featured on “The Love Boat,” and they proved to be a big hit with viewers.

Persons: we’re, Aaron Spelling, Princess Cruise, Jeraldine Saunders, “, Merrill Stubing, Gavin MacLeod, ” Michael L, Grace, Princess, Caribbean's, ”, Carolyn Spencer Brown, Captain Stubing, Adam Bricker, Bernie Kopell, Julie McCoy, Lauren Tewes, Isaac Washington, Ted Lange, Vicki, Jill Whelan, ” Grace, Everett, Peter Knego, Spencer Brown, Dittrich, Keen, Cruises ’, Princess “, Cruises, Della Reese, Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Ann Miller, Judi Patterson, Andy, Oriana, Patterson, Greer Garson, Howard Duff, Jill Whelan –, Princess Cruises – Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ezra Freeman, he’s, ” MacLeod, Joe Raedle, Caribbean’s, Isaac, Ted Lange's, Bret Hartman, Knego, ” Spencer Brown, ” Whelan, Cruise Organizations: CNN, Paramount Plus, Princess Cruises, Princess, Everett, CNN Travel, Cruise Media, Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines, Entertainment, CBS, Knego, “, Disney Cruise, world’s, Princess Cruises Pacific Locations: Mexico, Royal Caribbean, India, New York, Canada, New England

☆ Opinion: Jon Stewart’s brilliant return
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Opinion Bill Carter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images Stewart waves goodbye backstage after taping the last episode of "The Jon Stewart Show" in 1995. M. Caulfield/WireImage/Getty Images Stewart appears on an episode of CNN's "Crossfire" with Paul Begala, left, and Tucker Carlson in 2004. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Stewart signs an autograph on the Emmys red carpet in 2009. Zach Gibson/Getty Images Stewart appears on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in 2019. Scott Kowalchyk/CBS/Getty Images Stewart smiles as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks by him on Capitol Hill in 2019.

Persons: Bill Carter, CNN —, Bill Carter Bill Carter, Jon Stewart, ” Stewart’s, Stewart, “, ”, Joe Biden, Travis Kelce, ” Stewart, —, Abdel Fattah el, Biden, ” Jon Stewart, Victoria Will, College of William & Mary, William, Mary Athletics Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Lesly Weiner, Mike Piazza, Jeff Kravitz, Catherine McGann, Ron Galella, Jennifer Beals, Guillermo Diaz, Universal Pictures Stewart, Tracey McShane, Steve Eichner, Adam Sandler, Corey Sipkin, Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, CNN Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Colbert, Scott Gries, Todd Plitt, Rob Corddry, Ed Helms, Samantha Bee —, Ethan Miller, Kevork Djansezian, Mark Peterson, Bill Kotsatos, Nathan, Maggie, Tomorrowland Speedway, David Roark, Benjamin Lowy, Bill O'Reilly, Jamie McCarthy, Valentino, Tracey, Jo, Anne McArthur, Barack Obama, Pete Souza, Trevor Noah, Noah, Brad Barket, Comedy Central Stewart, Alex Wong, Rossum, James Devaney, John Feal, Zach Gibson, Scott Kowalchyk, Mitch McConnell, McConnell, Bill Clark, Twain, Kevin Wolf, Matt Wilson, Donald Trump, Biden’s forgetfulness, Trump, Jack Paar, Dulcé Sloan Organizations: The New York Times, CNN, HBO, Comedy Central, “ CBS, Super, College of William &, Mary Athletics, MTV, Getty, Miramax, Everett, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Television Critics Association, Caulfield, MTV Networks, Comedy, Tomorrowland, Walt Disney, Disney, Cancer Moonshot Initiative, New York Knicks, FealGood, CBS, Kennedy Center, Performing Arts, Daily, Democratic, Biden Locations: TikTok, Gaza, Mexico, Egypt, Williamsburg , Virginia, New York, Washington , DC, Florida, Washington ,, Pennsylvania

☆ Tommy Hilfiger’s homecoming show sets stage for all-American new chapter
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Nick Remsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Tommy Hilfiger has set the stage for a new chapter at his eponymous megabrand — and he did so by coming home. Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior/Tommy Hilfiger In photos: Looks from Tommy Hilfiger's "elevated" Fall-Winter 2024 fashion show Prev NextFrom streetwear to sailing gear to sporty and preppy, often with a frisson of celebrity, it’s this lifestyle-driven approach, which is perhaps less about the fashion than it is the feeling, that is the key to Hilfiger’s modern — and continued — success. Elliot Grainge and Sofia Richie Grainge attend Hilfiger's show. Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow. “Sofia is a style icon, and she’s also just an incredible person.”Gigi Hadid and Tommy Hilfiger walk the runway at the Tommy Hilfiger's Fall-Winter 2018 show during Milan Fashion Week on February 25, 2018.

Persons: Tommy Hilfiger, —, Hilfiger, ”, ” Tommy Hilfiger, Robert R, McElroy, à, Filippo Fior, Tommy Hilfiger Filippo Fior, Tommy Hilfiger's, Sofia Richie Grainge, Tommy, Damson Idris, Sonam Kampoor, Noah Beck, Jacob Rott, Chris Appleton, Halima Aden, Jasmine Tookes, Elsa Hosk, Elliot Grainge, Rob Berry, Kelly Rutherford, Lily van der, Blake Lively, Serena, Richie Grainge, ” Hilfiger, “, she’ll, Gigi Hadid, she’s, ” Gigi Hadid, Daniele Venturelli, Richie, we’ve, We’ve, Thomas Iannaccone, Corey Tenold, Hilfiger’s, NYFW, ebullience Organizations: CNN, Oyster, Grand Central, New, Hilfiger, HBO, Warner Bros ., verve, Milan, Penske Media, New York Locations: New York, Madison, New York City, —, Sofia, “ Sofia, American

☆ How to fight dementia, according to neurologists
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

What about diabetes, cancer, thyroid disease, high blood pressure or heart disease? Some of the questions might seem unexpected to those who don’t write about brain health. However, my risk of developing vascular dementia, the second most common type after Alzheimer’s disease, is elevated. "Such spikes cause brain inflammation, disrupt brain metabolism and increase shrinkage of the thinking part of the brain," Isaacson said. The National Institute on Aging currently supports nearly 500 active clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Persons: Louise Dittner, Krysta, Ryan LaMotte, It’s, ”, Natalia Rost, “, Rost, ” Rost, Richard Isaacson, ” Isaacson, mockingbird …, birthed, it’s, I’ve, Isaacson, Sandee LaMotte Organizations: CNN, Comprehensive, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, American Academy of Neurology, Boca Raton, Weill Cornell Medicine, Presbyterian, Mayo Clinic, Volunteers, Alzheimer’s, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health Locations: Massachusetts, Boston, neonatologists, Florida, United, New York, New York City, Nature

☆ Jon Stewart marks ‘The Daily Show’ return
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images Stewart waves goodbye backstage after taping the last episode of "The Jon Stewart Show" in 1995. Corey Sipkin/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images Stewart holds an award won by "The Daily Show" in 2003. M. Caulfield/WireImage/Getty Images Stewart appears on an episode of CNN's "Crossfire" with Paul Begala, left, and Tucker Carlson in 2004. Scott Kowalchyk/CBS/Getty Images Stewart smiles as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks by him on Capitol Hill in 2019. Matt Wilson/Comedy Central's The Daily Show Jon Stewart is back on "The Daily Show."

Persons: Jon Stewart, Jack Paar’s, Stewart, “, Taylor Swift, ”, ” Stewart, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Victoria Will, College of William & Mary, William, Mary Athletics Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Lesly Weiner, Mike Piazza, Jeff Kravitz, Catherine McGann, Ron Galella, Jennifer Beals, Guillermo Diaz, Universal Pictures Stewart, Tracey McShane, Steve Eichner, Adam Sandler, Corey Sipkin, Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, CNN Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Colbert, Scott Gries, Todd Plitt, —, Rob Corddry, Ed Helms, Samantha Bee —, Ethan Miller, Kevork Djansezian, Mark Peterson, Bill Kotsatos, Nathan, Maggie, Tomorrowland Speedway, David Roark, Benjamin Lowy, Bill O'Reilly, Jamie McCarthy, Valentino, Tracey, Jo, Anne McArthur, Barack Obama, Pete Souza, Trevor Noah, Noah, Brad Barket, Comedy Central Stewart, Biden, Alex Wong, Rossum, James Devaney, John Feal, Zach Gibson, Scott Kowalchyk, Mitch McConnell, McConnell, Bill Clark, Twain, Kevin Wolf, Matt Wilson, Robert Hur’s, Trump, Dulcé Sloan, ” Jordan Klepper Organizations: CNN, Comedy Central, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, College of William &, Mary Athletics, MTV, Getty, Miramax, Everett, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Television Critics Association, Caulfield, MTV Networks, Comedy, Tomorrowland, Walt Disney, Disney, Cancer Moonshot Initiative, New York Knicks, FealGood, CBS, Kennedy Center, Performing Arts, Daily Locations: Williamsburg , Virginia, New York, Washington , DC, Florida, Washington ,

☆ ‘True Detective’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap: Dots Finally Connect
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Scott Tobias | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This week’s recap is posting earlier than usual because the episode premiered Friday on Max. Season 4, Episode 5: Part 5She’s awake. After last week’s episode spend too much time fussing over underdeveloped subplots and supernatural occurrences, this week’s hour snaps to attention like a procrastinating student who had been putting off a term paper. Their only feasible guide is Otis, a cagey German heroin addict with scorched eyeballs who once mapped the caves. They manage to get to base of the cave, but it is on mine company property and the entrance has been blown to pieces.

Persons: Max, ”, Danvers, Navarro, Annie K, Jack Nicholson, Raymond Clark Locations: Ennis, Chinatown

As Dwight progressed through the Air Force, he was handpicked by President John F. Kennedy’s White House to join Chuck Yeager’s test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in space. Dwight astronaut future took a more drastic turn when Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. “Everybody was wondering, ‘What’s going to happen with Dwight?’" says Dwight. To the Black astronauts who followed in his footsteps, Dwight braved their path.

Persons: Ed Dwight, he’d, ’ ” Dwight, Dwight, ”, “, ‘, John F, Chuck Yeager’s, Edwards, Kennedy, —, ” Dwight, Zoom, Guion, Bernard Harris, ” Harris, Ed, who’s, Lisa Cortés, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, that’s, Eddie Dwight, Satchel Paige’s, Edward R, Murrow, James Webb, “ Yeager, Jimmy Stewart, Yaeger, ’ ” Yeager, Yeager, Tom Wolfe’s “, Bobby, Wolfe, ‘ What’s, ’, ” Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Patterson, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Barack Obama, it’s, Hurtado de Mendoza, isn’t, He’s, Chuck, Jake Coyle Organizations: Air Force, Edwards Air Force Base, NASA, Geographic, Disney, Century America, Negro Leagues, Kansas City Monarchs, Soviet Union, Sputnik, Mercury, U.S . Information Agency, Negro, Aerospace Research, House, Arizona State University, “ NASA, White, Congress, Civil Rights, Justice Department, Wright, IBM, Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of Denver, Orion Locations: Kansas, Korea, Hulu, Denver, Soviet, U.S, Edwards, Washington, Germany, Canada, Ohio

☆ Why Quinta Brunson actually loved having fewer episodes for 'Abbott Elementary' season 3
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The "Abbott Elementary" creator is also busy with the show's third season, which premiered Wednesday. After winning the Emmy Award for best actress in a comedy series in January, she’s now in the thick of “Abbott Elementary” season three. Many broadcast series saw reduced episode counts in the post-strike television season, and "Abbott Elementary" season three clocks in at 14 episodes — eight less than season two. Brunson in "Abbott Elementary" season three. "Abbott Elementary" season three airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m.

Persons: Quinta, Taika Waititi, Abbott, Brunson, —, Quinta Brunson, she’s, Waititi, Mel Brooks, ”, “ Abbott, Gilles Mingasson, Jalen, Jason Kelce, Brandon Graham, Josh Segarra, Kimia, Benjamin Norris, “, castmates, I’ll Organizations: Quinta Brunson, Service, ABC, Philadelphia Eagles Locations: Philadelphia

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a short film shown at the end of the Super Bowl halftime performer news conference, the show’s headliner Usher comes up missing. ?” It’s one of the many creative projects from Apple Music, which has made a concerted effort to amplify the anticipation around Sunday's halftime show. Since Apple Music became the halftime show sponsor, the streaming service is pushing to leave an influential mark like never before. As Usher prepares to headline this year's festivities, Apple Music created a strategic plan before he hits the Super Bowl stage. Between Apple Music, Apple Music Radio, the talent who have a deep understanding of music and culture and obviously Apple's ecosystem, I think we can amplify that.”Leading up to Sunday, it's all about Usher.

Persons: Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon, Taraji, Henson, “ We’re, ”, Oliver Schusser, Schusser, ” Schusser, “, Rihanna —, “ It's, Jermaine Dupri, Tiësto, Nadeska Alexis, Lil Wayne, Estelle, Tor Myhren, ” Myhren, there's Organizations: LAS VEGAS, Super, Apple Music, Pepsi, Apple, NFL, Jay, Apple Music Radio

☆ In ‘The New Look,’ It’s Chanel Versus Dior in War-Torn Paris
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In “The New Look,” an Apple TV+ show premiering Feb. 14, wine glasses are never empty, cigarettes are always half-smoked and everyone is thin. The series follows two titans of French fashion, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, after all, toward the end of World War II. But this glamorous portrayal of Paris’s creative milieu is also interested in how the French elite collaborated with their Nazi occupiers during this contested period. It offers a startling throwback to a time when swastika-stamped flags hung over the streets of Paris. From 1940 to 1944, the French Vichy regime collaborated with the Nazis and deported over 70,000 Jews to death camps, sent French workers to Germany and tried to crush the French resistance.

Persons: Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Chanel, Juliette Binoche, Hans Günther von Dincklage, Claes Bang Organizations: Apple, French Vichy, Ritz, Nazi Locations: Paris, French, Germany

☆ ‘One Day’ stars Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall didn’t have to work hard on their chemistry
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Sandy Thin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Every episode kind of felt standalone,” Mod explained to CNN. (Full disclosure: I attended university with Mod, where we became friends.) Mod (left) and Woodall (right) filmed on location in Greece, Paris, Edinburgh and London for "One Day." Courtesy NetflixLike Emma, Mod also studied English at university, only to spend her early twenties in jobs she didn’t really want. "One Day" is the first time either Mod or Woodall have played the lead in a TV show, after both had breakout supporting roles in 2022.

Persons: ” Emma Morley, Dexter Mayhew, ” David Nicholls ’, Dexter glibly, Emma, Ambika, Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Dexter, Swithins, “, Andrew Shires, Megan, Woodall, Mod, ”, I’ve, Leo Woodall, Jack, Tom Hollander’s, ” Woodall Organizations: CNN, BBC, Edinburgh Fringe, Durham Revue, Netflix Locations: St, Greece, Paris, Edinburgh, London, Yorkshire, Wolverhampton

By making history at the Games, Paris medalists will take a bit of France and its history home, too. The iron pieces embedded in the center of the Olympic medals each weigh 18 grams (about two-thirds of an ounce). We realized that there’s one symbol known across the world, which is the Eiffel Tower,” Roncin said. “We said to ourselves, ‘Hey, what if we approached the Eiffel Tower Operating Co. to see if it’s possible to get a bit of the Eiffel Tower to integrate into the medal?’”The company agreed, and “the dream became reality,” he said. They’ll come in a dark-blue box from Chaumet and a certificate from the Eiffel Tower Operating Co. that the iron pieces came from the monument.

Persons: Simone Biles, LeBron James, it’s, Gustave Eiffel’s, Joachim Roncin, ” Roncin, “, ”, Chaumet, didn’t Organizations: PARIS, Eiffel, Paris Games, Games, Paris, Operating, “, Nike, Paris Mint, Olympics Locations: London, Beijing, Athens, France, Paris, paris

☆ ‘Bark of Millions’ Review: Children of the Revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Somewhere close to the four-hour mark in “Bark of Millions,” the polychromatic cavalcade of splendor that is Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s new rock opera, I finally realized why the woman in front of me had been reading on her phone throughout the performance. The words on her phone were excerpts from the show’s lyrics, a free digital version of the printed fan deck on sale at concessions. More than 50 songs in, she was grasping at that text in an attempt to follow along. Because the great frustration of “Bark of Millions,” which continues through Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, is that there are far too many songs in which the music drowns out the lyrics, making the meaning a bafflement. If “Bark of Millions” were aiming to succeed on aural gorgeousness and visual spectacle alone, there would be no cause to quibble.

Persons: Taylor Mac, Matt Ray’s, Brendan Aanes, Mac Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Locations: Versailles, Vegas

☆ Mary Todd Lincoln, Thwarted Cabaret Star? That’s Cole Escola’s Take.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s hard to pin down the moment in “Oh, Mary!,” a comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, that will send Lincoln scholars and purists into apoplexy. It could be when the first lady disastrously auditions for a role in “Our American Cousin,” the play at which John Wilkes Booth would later shoot her husband on April 14, 1865. Or when the deeply closeted Lincoln is orally pleasured at his desk. “I’ve seen people at the box office who seem to think this is really a play about Abraham Lincoln, and I feel a little bad, but it’s also funny,” Cole Escola, the show’s writer and star, said in a recent phone interview. (The show opens on Thursday and continues through March 24 at Off Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater.)

Persons: Mary !, Mary Todd Lincoln, ”, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln, “ I’ve, Abraham Lincoln, it’s, ” Cole Escola, “, Jackée Harry, Harry, enchant Escola, Lucille Lortel Organizations: Lincoln, Stonewall Locations: “, enchant

☆ SpongeBob SquarePants is going to announce this Super Bowl broadcast
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Football’s youngest fans will be able to watch Super Bowl LVIII announced by SpongeBob SquarePants and the rest of the gang from Bikini Bottom. Characters from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants will join the telecast live. Sandy Cheeks (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence) will make her sideline reporting debut during the Super Bowl LVIII telecast live "Super Bowl LVIII Live from Bikini Bottom". But fans of the long-running show will recognize a 2001 classic next Sunday — there will be a “Sweet Victory” performance in the Super Bowl telecast. In the 2019 Super Bowl, halftime act Maroon 5 paid tribute to the song that the SpongeBob characters sang in a 2001 episode (in the episode, the characters of the Bikini Bottom were performing in the Bubble Bowl, a spoof of the Super Bowl.)

Persons: New York CNN —, SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks, Carolyn Lawrence, Paramount SpongeBob, Tom Kenny, Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke, Nate Burleson, Noah Eagle, Larry, Lawrence, Slimetime ”, Dylan Gilmore, Nick, Gen Z, Alpha, Taylor Swift’s, Travis Kelce, ” Sean McManus, Chris Nowinski, Stephen Hillenburg, Travis Scott, “, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, New York CNN — Football’s, Nickelodeon, CBS Sports, Super, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Paramount Global, CBS, Paramount, Allegiant, NFL, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Nick NFL, Chiefs, NFL Nickelodeon, Saints, Bears Locations: New York, Las Vegas

So it was surprising that the end of Sunday night’s season premiere of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — look out, spoilers coming — took pretty, pretty, pretty clear aim at the major voting law Georgia passed in 2021. Larry David, who as the show’s curmudgeonly star is better known for breaking social norms than actual laws, travels to Atlanta in the episode. “Sir, in the navy blazer, put your hands in the air,” an officer says to a confused Mr. David. In another episode, the cantankerous Mr. David realizes that wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat around liberal Los Angeles gets him out of many unwanted meetings and interactions. In an interview with TheWrap, one of the show’s executive producers said that its writing team had decided to somehow incorporate the Georgia law back when it passed two years ago.

Persons: “, Georgia, Larry David, Leon, she’s, Larry, Sir, David, ”, Donald J, Trump, ” Jordan Fuchs, David —, Elmo, David’s, TheWrap, Jeff Schaffer, ’ Organizations: Recreation, Los Angeles Locations: “, Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton

☆ S.N.L. Brings Nikki Haley Into the Mix
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Dave Itzkoff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Saturday Night Live” resumed its election-season tradition of bringing on political candidates to play themselves, inviting Nikki Haley for a cameo in its opening sketches this weekend. Haley, who has tried to make use of comedy and popular culture as she trails former President Donald J. Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, appeared in a segment that was presented as a CNN town hall event with Trump (played by the show’s resident Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson). Johnson fielded questions from other “S.N.L.” cast members, explaining how he planned to beat President Biden and would “stop Taylor Swift from infiltrating the Super Bowl.” The town hall moderators then introduced a question from an audience member “who describes herself as a concerned South Carolina voter.”

Persons: ”, Nikki Haley, Haley, Donald J, Trump, James Austin Johnson, Johnson, Biden, Taylor Swift, “ Organizations: CNN, Trump, Super Locations: Carolina

“Kimberly Akimbo” won last year’s Tony Award for best musical, and “Parade” won the Tony for best musical revival. Only “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Sweeney Todd” are still running on Broadway, and if you want to see them in New York, now’s the time: “Kimberly Akimbo” has announced plans to close on April 28 and “Sweeney Todd” is expected to end its run on May 5. “Kimberly Akimbo” is planning a national tour that is scheduled to start in Denver in September. A “Shucked” tour is to begin in Nashville in November, and a “Parade” tour is to begin in January in Schenectady, N.Y., and then Minneapolis. “Some Like It Hot” had announced an intention to tour starting this fall but has not announced any venues.

Persons: Adrianna Hicks, Christian Borle, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Jesse Green, ”, J, Harrison, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Scott Wittman, Marc Shaiman, Wittman, Shaiman, “ Kimberly Akimbo, Leo Frank, “, “ Sweeney Todd, Barber, Stephen Sondheim, “ Kimberly Akimbo ”, Tony, “ Sweeney Todd ” Organizations: Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York Times Locations: Georgia, New York, Denver, Nashville, Schenectady, N.Y, Minneapolis

“Northern Exposure” premiered on CBS in 1990. Over the next six years, it drew millions of viewers, won a raft of Emmys and adorned the cover of multiple issues of TV Guide. But despite its success decades ago, “Northern Exposure” wasn’t widely available on streaming platforms until recently. Our TV critic Margaret Lyons considers how being out of circulation affected the show’s legacy, and the joys of rediscovering this classic series. On today’s episode

Persons: Margaret Lyons Organizations: CBS

☆ ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Review: Cold Blooded
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” which premieres Wednesday on FX (streaming on Hulu), is something that its protagonist could not abide: a bore. The second season of the anthology series “Feud” stretches the story of Truman Capote’s falling out with the “swans” of New York society across eight episodes and more than seven hours. They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary. “Capote vs. the Swans” feels as forbidding and vindictive as the society wives who pass judgment on Capote. An element in that affect is the fashionably fractured approach the show takes to its storytelling.

Persons: Truman Capote’s, —, Babe Paley, Jon Robin Baitz, Gus Van Sant, Ryan Murphy —, “ Capote, ” Organizations: Swans, Hulu, Basque Locations: New York, La

☆ Joni Mitchell to perform at Grammy Awards for first time at age 80
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell will grace the stage of the 66th Grammy Awards on Sunday as a performer for the first time at age 80. The Recording Academy made the announcement in a news release Sunday, adding the nine-time Grammy winner to a star-studded performance lineup that includes Dua Lipa, Burna Boy, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, U2, Luke Combs and Billy Joel. Mitchell is a nominee in the Best Folk Album category for her 2023 live album “Joni Mitchell at Newport.” The album documents her surprise return to the concert stage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island – after 20 years away, according to the Recording Academy. The 22-time Grammy-winners inaugurated the venue, which is the world’s largest spherical structure and contains the world’s highest-resolution wraparound LED screen, with a series of concerts between October and December last year. The 2024 Grammys will air live on CBS and Paramount+ at 8 p.m.

Persons: Joni Mitchell, Burna, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, Luke Combs, Billy Joel, Mitchell, ”, Fito Páez, Amelia ”, Jeff Kravitz, Trevor Noah Organizations: CNN, Recording Academy, Dua, Newport Folk, CBS, Hall of Fame, Paramount Locations: Dua Lipa, Newport, ”, Rhode Island, Argentine, Woodstock

☆ ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ Review: Sutton Foster as a Perfectly Goofy Princess
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Elisabeth Vincentelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Such is the case with Sutton Foster as the eccentric Princess Winnifred in the Encores! revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” which opened Wednesday at City Center. The central role in this broadly goofy musical was exuberantly, indelibly originated by Carol Burnett in 1959. And Winnifred, described by another character as “a strangely energetic swamp girl,” is an ideal outlet for that sensibility. “Once Upon a Mattress” is nobody’s idea of a great musical, but it is many people’s idea of a fun one.

Persons: Sutton Foster, Winnifred, Carol Burnett, Foster, — she’s, “ Sweeney Todd ”, Janet Van De Graaff, Reno Sweeney, Mary Rodgers’s Organizations: City Center, New York Times, Broadway, CBS Locations: “

☆ Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum’s New Education Center
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Laurel Graeber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yet as extraterrestrial as this environment sounds, you can soon encounter it in Brooklyn. On Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m., “Artland” will welcome the public to a free celebration of the newly renovated Toby Devan Lewis Education Center at the Brooklyn Museum, where visitors can sculpt imaginary flora and fauna to add to the show’s phantasmagoric jungles. In some ways, the installation symbolizes the new center, which aims to help visitors find their own pathways into art. “It’s all about world building, right?” Shamilia McBean Tocruray, the museum’s co-director of education, said in an interview. “All about creating possibilities, and really akin to the invitation that we’re making to our community to say: ‘Come in here.

Persons: “, Ho Suh, Artland, Toby Devan Lewis, Tocruray, ’ Organizations: Toby Devan Lewis Education Center, Brooklyn Museum Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Jon Stewart Will Return to Host ‘The Daily Show’ on Mondays
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Matt Stevens | More About Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Jon Stewart will return to host “The Daily Show” on Monday nights during the 2024 election campaign, the network announced on Wednesday, bringing the comedian back to the television program that he turned into appointment viewing. “The Daily Show” has been without a permanent host since Trevor Noah stepped down in 2022. The first episode with Stewart, who left the show in 2015 after serving as host since 1999, will air on Comedy Central on Feb. 12 and on Paramount+ the following day. Stewart will also executive produce all episodes of “The Daily Show.” The episodes from Tuesday to Thursday will be hosted by a rotating lineup of the show’s news team. Chris McCarthy, the chief executive of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, said in a statement that Stewart was the voice of a generation.

Persons: Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, Stewart, Chris McCarthy Organizations: Comedy Central, Paramount, Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios

☆ Pitchfork, the Early Years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week, Condé Nast announced that Pitchfork, the taste-making music news and criticism website it had acquired in 2015 — which had entranced and sometimes infuriated fans for more than two decades — would be brought under the editorial umbrella of GQ. The announcement felt like a death knell for a certain kind of critical posture — progressive but not inaccessible, knowledgeable but also curious — that feels increasingly remote in the current media landscape. Some version of the site will continue, but online, the news was received with dismay and frustration. Guests:Ryan Schreiber, the founder of Pitchfork and its editor in chief for approximately two decadesChris Kaskie, Pitchfork’s first employee and first CEOConnect With Popcast. Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show’s Facebook group and Discord channel.

Persons: Condé Nast, Ryan Schreiber, Chris Kaskie, Pitchfork’s, Jon Caramanica Organizations: Pitchfork, GQ, Facebook, Twitter Locations: —

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