Culture Beast: How to Sound Smart While Watching the Tonys

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1 THeater 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. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 TELEVISION 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. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 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. Read it at The Daily Beast 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. READ IT NOW › 5 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. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 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. Read it at The Daily Beast --> Tyler Shields's Extreme Photographer Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Ten Celebrity Teen Brides: CFDA Red Carpet Highlights In response to David Bowie’s Vanishing Act: Love Bowie, always have. Glad he is doing what he wants to do, but I have to admit I would like to hear another Bowie - Lou Reed collaboration. — transformer1 In response to Remembering Ray Bradbury: I read Bradbury's book "Zen and the Art of Writing" in my early 20s, and it changed my life. It's not just about how to write fiction, it's about how to live. — Joshua Dixon

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