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Fresh off his performance in the critically abhorred Carter: The Musical, Billy Eichner is making tracks for 1960s Baltimore.

VideosHairspray Live! Promo: Watch First Footage of NBC’s Next Big Musical

The Difficult People star has joined the cast of NBC’s Hairspray Live! as Rob Barker, the TV newsman who relays the story of Tracy Turnblad’s escape from prison in order to integrate a popular dance program. (Yeah, if you’re not familiar with Hairspray, this show goes in all kinds of awesome directions.)

And here’s a fun little note: Eichner’s Difficult People co-star Andrea Martin...

The awards were first introduced in 1946 by the Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞) newspaper, which is the oldest daily Japanese one, since it has been on circulation since 1872. Nowadays, it is one of the three largest in the country, and it is noteworthy that two of its general directors were elected Prime Ministers.

The first winners were:

Best Film: Aru yo no tonosama (Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Best Firector: Tadashi Imai (Minshu no teki)

Best Script: Osone ke no ashita (Eijiro Hisaita)

Best Actor: Eitaro Ozawa (Osone ke no ashita)

Best Soundtrack: Minshu no teki (Fumio Hayasaka)

Since 1962, a year after the death of Noburo Ofuji, one of the pioneers of Japanese anime, a new award was introduced in his name, for the best anime of the season. The first winner was Osamu Tezuka, with “Story of a Certain Street Corner.”With the rise of the anime industry during the 80’s, the major studios started dominating the award,...

The curtain rises on a hotel room out of town, and songwriters in the midst of a desperate, all-night creative frenzy to save a faltering show. Lyrics amp Lyricists 2016 season opens with real-life theatrical drama as three-time Tony-winner Kathleen Marshall returns to 92Y with the nail-biting stories behind the 11th-hour songs that saved the day and became Broadway classics. The show runs tonight, January 9, through January 11 at 92Y.

"The stage is set. The curtain rises. We are ready to begin," Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes says in the dramatic trailer for the BBC's Victorian-set Christmas special, which will air on "Masterpiece" (PBS) before being released in select theaters via Fathom Events. "Sherlock: The Abominable Bride," a 90-minute special, will premiere Friday, January 1, 2016 on Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS at 9:00 p.m. Et, and simultaneously online. The special will have an encore broadcast on Sunday, January 10 at 10:00 p.m. Et. Bowing to popular demand, this marks the first time that "Sherlock" has premiered in the Us and the UK on the same day. True to producer Sue Vertue's promise at the jammed "Sherlock" Comic-Con panel last July, the powers did bring the showings in the UK and Us closer together. Watch the first clip and full Comic-Con panel with "Sherlock" executive producer/showrunner Steven Moffat, his.

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“The stage is set. The curtain rises. We are ready to begin.” There’s nothing quite like a good horror story at Christmastime, and if the latest trailer for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride is anything to go by, that’s exactly what we’re getting! The special one-off episode is set in Victorian times, and sees Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock...

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The curtain rises on a hotel room out of town, and songwriters in the midst of a desperate, all-night creative frenzy to save a faltering show. Lyrics amp Lyricists 2016 season opens with real-life theatrical drama as three-time Tony-winner Kathleen Marshall returns to 92Y with the nail-biting stories behind the 11th-hour songs that saved the day and became Broadway classics. The show runs January 9-11 at 92Y.

Our long international nightmare will be over soon: new Sherlock is on the way and there's a trailer to prove it. The special episode of the Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman series takes place in Victorian England—you know, back when the original Sherlock Holmes stories took place—because why not. "The stage is set. The curtain rises. We are ready to begin," Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes says in the trailer below. "Ahhhhhhhhhh," you say. The trailer has everything: cool facial hair, Deerstalker caps, capes, horse-drawn carriages, dead bodies, pipes, eerie smoke-filled alleys and so much good stuff. "The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B...

We’re getting our first look at Starz’s ballet drama Flesh And Bone. The eight-hour limited series follows a young dancer with a distinctly troubled past as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The curtain rises on November 8. Shot entirely in NYC, Flesh And Bone is described as a dark, gritty, complex series that unflinchingly explores the city through the eyes of Claire, played by Black Swan‘s Sarah Hay, an emotionally wounded but transcendent ballerina…...

Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...