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Friday, October 12, 2012

Culture Beast: Christopher Walken Gets Weird (Again)

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October 12

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Five must-dos this week
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FILM
Christopher Walken, Dog Snatcher
He’s one of the most delightfully strange actors to ever grace the silver screen, a reputation he lives up to as a bizarre dog snatcher in the new black comedy Seven Psychopaths, which hits theaters today. The Oscar winner talks to Marlow Stern about his oddest jobs, his cooking hobby, James Bond—and taming lions.
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THEATER
Fall’s Reigning Men
Katie Holmes may be the biggest draw for gossipmongers in Theresa Rebeck’s forthcoming comedy, Dead Accounts, but two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz is the real one to watch as her brother with a questionable past—along with a handful of other dapper headliners coming to Broadway’s stage. Check out our playbook of the hottest men in theater this season.
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TELEVISION
A Comic Star Who Delivers
Miranda Hart might not be well known in America, but that’s about to change. Jace Lacob explores her breakout role in PBS’ delightful ‘50s drama Call the Midwife, which airs Sundays at 8 p.m.
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Banish your preconceptions about Taken 2. Despite all the killing and the vehicular mayhem, sexual issues are at the heart of this sequel...”

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BOOKS
Things Still Fall Apart
At age 81, long after he cemented his reputation as a literary legend, Chinua Achebe has penned his most personal work yet. Uzodinma Iweala reviews Achebe’s new memoir of the Biafran war, There Was a Country, which hit shelves this week.
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ART
Ai Weiwei, China’s Art Sage
The artist’s first American survey just launched at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, but the political activist will be absent from his new show. Blake Gopnik previews the works on display in “Ai Weiwei: According to What,” where controversy is the main attraction.
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Mo Yan’s books are highly critical of the Communist Party. This is all told with a mixture of humor and horror. I recommend checking out his work.

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I saw this pilot on a plane in August and that song... and those actors... were really mesmerizing. Clare Bowen has some eyes!

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