Love Letters Reveal LBJ's Dogged Pursuit of Lady Bird
The letters reveal a back-and-forth as illuminating for Lady Bird's indecision as the future president's relentlessness.
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Let's face it: the weather is not cooperating in much of the country when it comes to barbecues and whatnot for Memorial Day 2013. So, obviously, you should do nothing but consume endless culture instead. And there's a lot out there! But, really, there's only so much time in a long weekend. We've clocked it for you.
The letters reveal a back-and-forth as illuminating for Lady Bird's indecision as the future president's relentlessness.
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What with all of the political drama in this year's Best Picture crop — and Michelle Obama hosting the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House — we couldn't help but wonder which films our top politicians would like to see win.
A new profile reveals that Dunham sees herself as a different breed than the stereotype of her generation. Here are some highlights from the interview, before it drops online.
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone — and to partially banish its iconic covers from a new generation — Scholastic says paperback editions of the series will be getting a makeover.
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In a surprise move, Comcast announced that it's going to buy all of General Electric's stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion. While this is no doubt big news in the business world, it also reveals just how on-point 30 Rock was with Kabletown all those yars.
It's interesting to think about where the next pope will come from and what that says about the Church's worldwide following. This map from the Washington Post helps.
He's fighting back (with words, at least) against a slight from the drummer of the Black Keys, a band the Grammys treated a little better, even though they don't really care — and whose fans have a little more actual muscle (if not on social media) than the Beliebers.
A notorious prankster nearly spoiled Adele's acceptance speech at the Grammys, and his confession amounts to something like a field guide on how to break in past the red carpet (Sacha Baron Cohen-style) and all the way to the stage (Soy Bomb!).
Funny or Die is out with "Part 2" of the "Between Two Ferns" Oscar special. Here are the highlights — and, uh, Daniel Day-Lewis, and, um, Sally Field eating Anne Hathaway?
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In case you find yourself watching, or trying to talk about something other than Best in Show, here's the world of Westminster now — the workouts, the favorites, the controversies (there's a murder this year), and, you know, the places to find cute photos.
The Wall Street Journal's new NYIndex is a little jarring — Michael Bloomberg and Mario Cuomo get thrown down past Chris Christie on a separate entry for politics, law, and government. But it is New York Fashion Week, after all.
Oscar nominees are pretty careful not to offend on their award-season interview tour. But in bringing back his viral video series "Between Two Ferns" for Funny or Die today, well, Zach Galifianakis is having none of that.
With two new looks at Monsters University, it appears that Pixar is trying to make their characters' college experience actually mimic something like reality. That is, if reality involved googly-eyed monsters.
He tried to upstage all of the festivities by hosting a live stream at the exact same time the awards show was supposed to start. Unfortunately that didn't work out too well.
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While no artist swept like Adele did last year, this year's Grammy show was a good one awards-wise for Mumford & Sons, fun., and Frank Ocean, who all took home prizes. Re-live the whole night — the performances, the speeches, the red carpet — in GIFs and photos.
Everyone's favorite somewhat legitimate but always ridiculous awards show return this Sunday. We'll be live-blogging the whole thing, but these things, well, these things are truly intriguing, or messy, or just plain fun. At least as far as the Grammys go.
The actual movie posters for this year's Best Picture nominees have nothing on these. The Academy teamed up with Gallery1988 to commission artists to create screen prints inspired by the top films.
While the impending "Nemo" blizzard may be shutting down schools and airports, it is decidedly not shutting down New York Fashion Week, which is trudging on in its heels, and — in some cases, at least before a quick runway change — snow boots.
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We in the Northeast could get hit with a lot of snow in the coming days, and the Internet and cellphones are telling us to prepare as only the Internet and cellphones can these days. Like so.
For a while now there have been rumors and whispers that the villain in J.J. Abrams latest Star Trek installment is the notorious Khan. Of course, that hasn't been confirmed yet. Or has it?
Fashionistas seem to now have the ideal medium in Twitter's new stop-motion video app, and it couldn't have come at a better time for Twitter. Here's why.
After a blog alleged that she didn't vote in this election, Dunham took to Twitter to clear up the situation. Maybe.
In the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, tributes flooded the community to the extent that the town is now "emotionally overtaxed" with donations and letters of grief, solidarity, and sorrow — not least of all because of a digital outpouring of emotion.
Perhaps this is finally the end of Community, or at least the small but virulent fervor that surrounds it.
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Here's your first look at the important fashion news, or at least the most absurd sentences therein.
Beyond the Yoda talk, one of Disney's new spin-off projects will apparently be a Han Solo origin story. There will be a Boba Fett adventure movie, too, but — what? A new Han Solo movie? Relax, there's hope. (A new hope, if you will.)
NBC has released the first major promo for Justin Bieber's first major attempt at taking over Saturday Night Live this weekend, and it's not so bad! At least it sure is just as promising than the hosting debut of that other Justin.
Though he just signed a two-year development deal with HBO, the Game of Thrones author's fans are already salivating over what could be a plan to adapt his novella series The Tales of Dunk and Egg.
Jon Stewart got into some questions of linguistics on last night's show, since the Republican Party has decided that "messaging" is its problem.
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After cries both emotional and exploitative from the Super Bowl pre-game show, the debate continued with news that a group of students will perform during this weekend's Grammy Awards — definitely with Ryan Seacrest involved and maybe Carly Rae Jepsen.
The singer's awfulness parade continues, and we're not just talking about that Frank Ocean fight: Now the Los Angeles district attorney has filed a motion revealing that Brown might have lied about completing his court-ordered community service.
She will officially be appearing in the Anchorman sequel, but will she be one of the movies stars or just one of its many possible cameos?
Much to the shock of hairdressers everywhere, HBO has released a trailer for Phil Spector, the David Mamet TV movie about the murder case involving the legendary music producer — and with it comes our first (very) full look at Al Pacino's reincarnation.
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Ready are you? Yoda might get his own movie, according to Harry Knowles at Ain't It Cool News, and the reaction is good, bad, and grammatically incorrect.
Before they could settle in to eat, stars were forced to process across a red carpet and face questions from the press, all of which resulted in the latest version of this particularly quirky group of celebrities saying the darndest things. Here are some highlights.
This week's New Yorker cover has transformed the magazine's dandy, Eustace Tilley, into a bearded, bespectacled, beanie-wearing, bike-tattoo-having Brooklyn hipster.
Vampire Weekend — the band of preppy clothing and Afro-Pop — made people turn to old media so they could release their album title in a positively viral way: the New York Times classifieds.
One way to look at the effects of gun violence in America is how many people have been killed. Another way to look at the impact: How many years have been taken from the lives of gun victims?
Some of these commercials (like the one with Will Ferrell) were simply specific to regions. Others were examples of products capitalizing on that unfortunately timed power outage at the Superdome. All of them are pretty clever.
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