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‘Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got’ Review: A Lens on a Jazz Luminary

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‘Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got’ Review: A Lens on a Jazz Luminary

The documentarian Brigitte Berman has made two spectacular pictures about American jazz pioneers. The first, “Bix: ‘Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet’” (1981), chronicled the life of the brilliant and tragically short-lived cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke. It screened in a restoration at Film Forum a couple of years back. Now, her follow-up … Read more

Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96

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Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96

Angela Lansbury, the English-born actress who excelled as the world’s most evil mother in “The Manchurian Candidate,” became a luminary of Broadway musical theater, and starred for 12 years as a warmhearted crime writer and sleuth in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died Oct. 11 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96. … Read more