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A Boy And A Pup Come To One Another's Rescue In 'The Dog Who Lost His Bark'
Brad Pitt stars in Ad Astra as an astronaut in search of his father, who disappeared on a mission many years prior. Francois Duhamel/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption
Brad Pitt On Making 'Ad Astra,' Processing Trauma And Channeling David Bowie
Not My Job: Zach Galifianakis Plays A Game Called 'Between Two Derns'
Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie poses at a community space where women cook and sell meat. She started drag as an escape from oppression she felt at Stellenbosch University for being "black, Xhosa, poor, queer and effeminate." "It is through pageantry and performance that I became more inclined with my queerness and how boundless expression should be," she says. "Drag became the therapist I never had." Lee-Ann Olwage hide caption
The playwright Jeremy O. Harris, 30, began writing Slave Play at Yale School of Drama. It is set to open in October on Broadway. Quil Lemons/Courtesy of 'Slave Play' hide caption
With 'Slave Play,' A Young Playwright Provokes His Way To Broadway
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini NPR hide caption
Fifty books made the cut for the 2019 National Book Award longlists. Winners will be announced in November. elenaleonova/Getty Images hide caption
Olympia Della Flora on the TED stage. Ryan Lash/TED hide caption
Olympia Della Flora: Can Small Classroom Tweaks Help Kids Better Cope With Emotions?
Liz Kleinrock on the TED stage. Ryan Lash /TED hide caption
Liz Kleinrock: How Can We Broach Hard Conversations In The Classroom?
Thomas Curran on the TED stage. JEROD HARRIS/TED hide caption
Jacqueline Woodson on the TED stage. Dian Lofton/TED hide caption
Cows graze in a field in the Podunk section of East Brookfield, Mass. Christopher Fitzgerald/AP hide caption
Laura Carmichael stars as Lady Hexham, Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Talbot in Downton Abbey. Liam Daniel/Focus Features hide caption
Toni Servillo stars in Paolo Sorrentino's film, which was recut from a two-part Italian TV series about the decadent life of Silvio Berlusconi. Universal hide caption
More like DAD Astra am I right? Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride chasing the ghost of his father across an unforgiving solar system in Ad Astra. Disney hide caption
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'Ad Astra' Soars
Roy Cohn, pictured here sitting on a senate investigation subcommittee, is remembered as a master political manipulator in Where's My Roy Cohn? Sony Pictures Classics hide caption
Jim Carter returns as Charles Carson for a royal visit in Downton Abbey. Jaap Buitendijk/Focus hide caption