Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84

Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84

Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s brazen fraud — during which he also outed the company’s founder as a transgender woman — and who later ran Voice of America during the last years of the Cold War, died on March …

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Through Tears, ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Makes Them Laugh

Through Tears, ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Makes Them Laugh

On an evening in mid-January, there were bouquets piled outside of Linda Lavin’s trailer on the Disney lot in Burbank, Calif. Nearby, on a soundstage, a black ribbon was wrapped around her caricature. Lavin had died on Dec. 29, at age 87. Now the creators and cast of “Mid-Century Modern,” …

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PBS and NPR Prepare for Showdown With Congress

PBS and NPR Prepare for Showdown With Congress

PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses — the leaders of the two public media networks — as if they were combatants in a prizefight. They’re all getting ready for a hearing on Wednesday — …

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Jennifer Tilly Is In On the Joke

Jennifer Tilly Is In On the Joke

She has been electrocuted, hatcheted, murdered by a doll with her soul trapped inside it. She has also notched up an epic kill count of her own, decapitating one victim with a nail file, eviscerating another and melting one unfortunate’s face off with boiling water. And that was before she …

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Takeaways From the ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale

Takeaways From the ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale

The second season of “Severance” just wrapped up with its longest episode yet. We have thoughts. Spoilers abound. Whose Side Are We On? There are endings that give you what you want. There are endings that don’t give you what you want. There are endings that give you what you …

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