IN MICHAEL Kay’s world, games are no longer classified as “manageable or unmanageable.” When promoting YES’ website, he has stopped recommending that viewers should “buy a computer, plug it in and ...

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"I see it in a movie, and I'm like, 'Damn it, teary cry smile,'" she said during THR's Actress Roundtable. By Katherine Schaffstall Emma Stone has a “shtick.” “Tate Taylor, the director, made me laugh ...

Somehow, I’ve managed to get through many years of theater-going without ever seeing Tartuffe, so I’m grateful to OpenStage Theatre for the opportunity. Unfortunately, this is essentially a ...

On American Idol, looks matter. Take the Idol crop this season: No bald ladies made it to Hollywood. During the premiere of The Voice last night, however, the bald, the “tall” (the show’s euphemism-of ...

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What is life but stringing together “some shtick and dilemmas” for ourselves, in the name of amusement or love or paying the rent? This is Bill Irwin’s life. He strings together shtick and dilemmas ...

The key to Donald Trump's presidential campaign—the feature that explains nearly everything else about that toxic dump—is his aggrieved-nation shtick. Just about everything Trump says (when he's not ...

These are the first words I’ve written since the election, which did not go the way I’d hoped. On Wednesday I barely got out of bed. I felt paralyzed by the whole thing. I’ve now hit the bargaining ...

It turns out bench players can steal the spotlight. They're doing it at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. The basketball team there is off to a hot start and its benchwarmers have been ...

Willard Scott never seemed to have much trouble getting work. He narrated shows at Carnegie Hall, he spent a decade hosting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and he appeared in countless commercials ...