Guitarist, songwriter and record producer Steve Cropper poses Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Humphrey/AP MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T.
Alongside interpreter Sheida Dayani, filmmaker Jafar Panahi accepts the award for the best original screenplay at the Gotham Awards in New York on Monday for his film It Was Just an Accident.
Tom Stoppard's plays include Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. He's pictured above in London in 2017. Justin Tallis/WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Tallis/WPA Pool/Getty Images Tom Stoppard's plays include Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia.
An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa Arsene Mpiana/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arsene Mpiana/AFP via Getty Images KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu
It can seem like a strange coincidence to see children parade through the streets of Germany with lanterns to mark St. Martin's Day on November 11 while, at the same time, colorfully dressed carnival revelers shout "Alaaf" or "Helau." Do these things really go together? In fact, Carnival and St.
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay has been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel "Flesh," a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune.
It's Sunday afternoon, and 10 people are gathered for a theater rehearsal in a community hall in Lille, a city in northern France. Most of the amateur actors did not get to know each other through the arts scene. They met during France's "yellow vests" protests.
Russell Crowe plays Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-command, in the latest on-screen portrayal of the Nuremberg trials. Nuremberg is in theaters now. Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures Classics hide caption toggle caption Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures Classics Russell Crowe and Rami Malek face off in an historical battle of wits and Weltanschauung in James Vanderbilt's new film Nuremberg.