From ’30 Rock’ to ‘Community,’ Who Decides What Old TV Episodes Are Too Insensitive to Keep in Circulation?
How TV platforms and producers are handling old episodes with blackface and other outdated, insensitive content
Culture
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HBO Removes Billboard Covering Kobe Bryant Tribute Mural in LA
No harm, no foul
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Dick Wolf Fires ‘Law & Order’ Spinoff Writer Craig Gore for Threatening to ‘Light Up’ Looters
Gore wrote on Facebook Monday that he would “light mother——s up”
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Mort Drucker, Mad Magazine Caricature King, Dies at 91
Drucker had an illustrious 55-year career parodying famous TV and film stars within the famed magazine’s pages
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Coronavirus: Quarantines Lead to Major Spike in TV Viewing, Nielsen Says
South Korea sees a 20% surge in TV viewing during widespread self-isolation
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
Young Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Headlands’ Theater Review: A Classic Film Noir Finds Its Way to the Stage
Christopher Chen’s new mystery intrigues with its many twists and turns. If only he had put a more cynical sleuth at its center
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‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
C.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the “Black Swan” star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
Lauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
