'Confessional culture' draws a crowd
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Embarrassing diaries become stage pieces and private humiliation becomes public display in this new take on reality entertainment.
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There are not too many ex-prisoners whose arrival in a room brings 250 journalists to their feet in a standing ovation. And there are not too many 86-year-olds who can summon a supergroup of some of the world&#39;s
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There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history.
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Bob Dylan, the voice of a generation, does not want to be known as the voice of a generation. He says as much at many points in this, the first of a projected three-volume autobiography that, of course, will be eagerly read by a generation. Such handles plainly irritate him and, here and there, provoke an unexpected response: Do you know what a drag it is to be me?
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The defrocked priest is by turns remorseful and flippant as he recounts in graphic detail a lifetime of sexually abusing children. Then, near the end of "the most honest confession of my life," he turns to the movie camera to wink and smile at his victims.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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An anthropologist looks into the roots of the open-hand shrug gesture and finds they run deep.
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Lal Jose's Classmates, is a campus caper with a difference, mixing and matching numerous genres to tell the story.
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By compelling audiences to listen more closely, âNo Country for Old Menâ has had the effect of calling attention to an underappreciated aspect of filmmaking: the use of sound.
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A fight breaks out, and even though people at the far side of the crowd can't see what's going on, they are immediately on edge. Now, a Harvard researcher has an explanation for this fear contagion, the quick spread of emotion through a crowd.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Artâs new exhibition invites the audience to give its opinion on 65 costumes using computers next to the displays, or online.
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Whatever its organizational and conceptual shortcomings, the celebration is offering a broad survey of early repertory, with focused explorations by groups that specialize in specific corners of it.
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Perfect for a culture obsessed with its innards, a new documentary dispenses with all the plot nonsense of CSI and House. One high-def shot after another of visceral video -- cold beer flowing down a man's gullet, or a teen's muscle-and-bone growth spurt -- show beauty is more than skin deep.
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Now that first impressions are often made on the Internet, people are strategizing about how to virtually convey who they are, and crafting an e-version of themselves that appeals to multiple audiences.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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The atmosphere suits certain players. While others have to learn to deal with the unique situations that a New York crowd promote.
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A documentary about Islam  and homosexuality is vying for attention at the Toronto  International Film Festival, where high-profile movies set in  the Middle East are already making a splash.