Like most big stories, the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s was also a tragically large number of small stories, and director Cecilia Aldarondo has found a compelling one in Memories of A Penitent Heart...

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National Geographic’s Joel Sartore has photographed thousands of birds, animals, insect, fish, and other wildlife over the last quarter century. For a disturbing number of those species, Sartore’s photographs may soon be all we have left...

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THE DISTURBING AND CREEPY ‘ROOM 104’ By David Hinckley

If your sleep issue is that you don’t have enough nightmares, several episodes of HBO’s new Room 104 should be just the antidote you were looking for...

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June Foray was heard but not seen. Foray, who died Thursday in Los Angeles, just a few weeks short of her 100^th birthday, provided the voices for hundreds of animated television and film characters over a career that spanned 10 decades...

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AMAZON'S 'THE LAST TYCOON' ISN'T PERFECT, BUT CERTAINLY WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley

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