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Friday, June 8, 2012

Culture Beast: How to Sound Smart While Watching the Tonys

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Believe ‘Once’ is a shoo-in for Best Musical? Think again. Janice Kaplan breaks down the wheeling and dealing behind Sunday’s Tony Awards.
  • Will straitlaced Broadway insiders find ‘Peter and the Starcatchers’ too inventive?
  • Voters may side with the all-American ‘Newsies.’
  • Expect a showdown between soon-to-be 'Spider-Man' Andrew Garfield and ‘Smash’ star Christian Borle.
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Has ‘True Blood’ Lost Its Bite?
The sexy vampire drama returns on Sunday. Jace Lacob reviews the beginning of the fifth season and wonders what happened to the show’s narrative stakes.
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ART
The Pioneer of Neon Art
Lucio Fontana saw the potential in light as a medium before any other artists. Check out his 1951 Neon Structure and other works at New York’s Gagosian Gallery, on view until June 30.
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Days after their YouTube debut, the Stella Sisters are now fielding calls and emails from Amy Poehler and Damian Kulash, lead singer of the band OK Go.

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BOOKS
How Gabriel Garcia Marquez Brought Down the Banana King
With his new book, The Fish That Ate the Whale, out this week, Rich Cohen writes about how Marquez's fiction had real-life aftershocks.
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FILM
‘Prometheus’ Director Spills His Guts
The ‘Alien’ prequel is finally here. Legendary auteur Ridley Scott talks to Marlow Stern about his return to sci-fi and his proclivity for kick-ass female leads.
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