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Yiddish, With Faces This Time

In support of the use of more colorful speech, here’s a handy guide to useful terms from one of America’s favorite dialects. To make it easy to remember, each word is keyed to a representative public figure. You can even make up your own! MORE

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Sister Aimee

Based on the life of an actual person, Aimee Semple McPherson, this film is, and I quote, “Based on true events. Mostly made up.”

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Child Musicians

North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE

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Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn is directed and written by, as well as starring Edward Norton, adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name. Also starring Bruce Willis, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee, MORE

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Lady and the Tramp

In their attempt to make us all sick of “live action” remakes, Disney+ brings us a straight to streaming version of Lady and the Tramp, featuring the voices of Justin Theroux as Tramp, Tessa Thompson MORE

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Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.

COPENHAGEN (The Borowitz Report)—After rebuffing Donald J. Trump’s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead. MORE