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Kathy Griffin still won’t stay silent

Kathy Griffin apologizes in advance for all the noise. On the day we connected by phone, she expected a lot of activity in her Malibu home, including air-conditioning repairers and the usual four or five yapping dogs. “It’s mayhem,” she…
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Duncan Sheik wasn’t a one-hit wonder

Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter and composer best known for his earwormy ’90s hit, “Barely Breathing” and his composition of the Broadway musical, “Spring Awakening” — for which he won two Tonys — died on Thursday at the age of 56.…
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“South Park” predicted the age of food insanity

Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category.  In the 2014 episode “Gluten Free Ebola,” residents begin violently dying…
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Tom Cruise wants the last word

Tom Cruise is intense. We know this. Whether he’s pressing interviewers about their glibness or just holding eye contact for an inordinate amount of time, Cruise — the last movie star, as he’s been coined — is the definition of…
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Bourdain’s ’90s gangster novels couldn’t escape the kitchen

Before Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain, he was writing crime novels about cooks. That’s the strange pleasure of “Three Crime Novels,” a new collection of “Bone in the Throat” (1995), “Gone Bamboo” (1997) and “The Bobby Gold Stories” (2002), re-released…
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