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From Darth Vader coffee mugs to holiday sweaters with Chewbacca in a Santa hat, “Star Wars” has unleashed a galaxy of goods. Cash registers will ring again when “The Force Awakens” hits theaters on Dec. 18. The film could generate more than $9 billion in revenue for Disney and its partners, from cinemas to TV…
After Josef Stalin’s death in 1953, a mysterious note was found among his private papers. It had been sent by Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin’s revolutionary comrade and for many years the Communist Party’s intellectual figurehead, while awaiting execution after his 1938 show trial for numerous imaginary crimes. Using a nickname only known to the dictator’s oldest…
There I was, standing in line on 68th Street waiting to get into the New York press screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (a film you may have heard something about) and cursing myself for being the sort of person who follows the rules. I could see other critics, either through ignorance, deviousness or…
(Photos by Nicky Steidel) When Hilly Kristal opened CBGB OMFUG on the Bowery in 1973, he served his special chili—cooked in the presence of the chef’s pet rat, “Hilly’s Chili” contained surprise seasonings like cigarette ashes and bodily fluids. But the venue was known for the music, not the menu—the Talking Heads, Blondie, and The…
The Year in Style 2015 By JACOB BERNSTEIN Sometime around the end of 2014, the publicist Alan Nierob received a call at his office at Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles. The caller was a former client, Bruce Jenner, who explained that after years of gender dysphoria, he had begun the transition to become a…
Creative forces now in charge of venerated role-playing franchise beginning to chart new course. White Wolf Publishing has provided new information on the future of World of Darkness. Speaking in a presentation and a Q&A session at Tenebrae Noctis, a World of Darkness fan event held last weekend in Germany, CEO Tobias Sjogren and Lead…
Is Hermione Granger black? This is the question prompted by the casting of a black actor, Noma Dumezweni, as Hogwarts’ cleverest pupil in an upcoming theatre production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The answer is twofold. First, why the hell not? Second, what a stupid question! A better one to ask is whether…
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Now that The Force Awakens has awoken in theaters, various details are emerging about some of the directions NOT taken in the latest Star Wars film. Among them? One character that was supposed to perish after a short amount of screen time. Potential spoilers ahead. Who’s the character? Poe Dameron, according to an interview with…
Related: Harrison Ford dines out in Peckham and our film of the year – the Dailies podcast Daniel Craig did cameo as a stormtrooper in the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens – despite having denied doing so – according to Entertainment Weekly. Reporter Chris Lee, who broke the story of the James Bond…