Jeffrey Fleishman

‘Shtisel,’ an Israeli TV show about ultra-Orthodox Jews, is a hit on Netflix

April 17, 2019 at 3:29 p.m.

Beyond the Old City walls, in a neighborhood where names of the dead echo against stone, the squabbles, loves, joys and doubts of ultra-Orthodox Jews play out — often with...

Country singer Frank Ray, center, poses for a photo with Alex Solis, left, and Joseph Daniels, both of Las Cruces, N.M., at a concert at Whiskey Dicks nightclub.

Frank Ray is a Latino former cop changing the face of country music

April 5, 2019 at 6:52 p.m.

The pickup raced along scrub, mesquite and creosote. A cold wind scattered dust beyond the onion factory. The cotton fields were empty, and Frank Ray, who was christened Francisco Gomez,...

Some say differing reactions to sexually inappropriate comments made by Trump and James Gunn (not pictured) point to a double standard in Hollywood. Here, Trump is seen in a 2005 video frame with Arianne Zucker and Billy Bush. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)

James Gunn’s vulgar tweets reveal the power of social media to force Hollywood vigilance

December 13, 2018 at 12:20 a.m.

James Gunn runs on the quicksilver creativity that Hollywood craves: His “Guardians of the Galaxy” films were wild rides of clever asides, many delivered by a gun-toting raccoon, that were...

The culture war started 30 years ago by Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ is alive today

December 13, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

He came out of a sandstorm, bloody and battered, an earthen and flawed Jesus who 30 years ago set off a culture war over questions of faith and the divide...

Director Brett Ratner denies the allegations of six women who accused him in The Times last week of sexual misconduct.

Who’s next? High anxiety in Hollywood

December 17, 2018 at 6:22 p.m.

The curtain has been pulled back, and, oh, is it messy. Hollywood has always reveled in scandal. The rumor. The whisper. The unfortunate photograph. The apology and return to grace....

Bill O'Reilly in October 2015 when he was still host of the Fox News Channel program "The O'Reilly Factor."

Weinstein sex accusations show the power of social media and the limits of shame in our celebrity-driven world

December 18, 2018 at 6:58 a.m.

Note to men with unseemly, to say nothing of perverse, intentions: There are no more hiding places. Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets are the town criers of our...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Harvey Weinstein: His cinematic gifts and his bullying sway over a Hollywood he fascinated and repelled

June 2, 2018 at 2:44 a.m.

He arrived that autumn night like a tribal leader in a strange, opulent outpost. The crowd, many of them famous, whispered, nodded. Jane Fonda swept past the bar, Idris Elba...

Used to playing all sides, Yemen leader is boxed in

August 23, 2021 at 1:17 a.m.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once described ruling Yemen as dancing on the heads of snakes, has stayed in power for three decades through a clever mix of money, tribal...

Bombing at graduation raises fears for Somalia

August 22, 2021 at 1:32 p.m.

In a stunning attack on Somalia's shaky government, a suicide bombing Thursday at a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu killed three Cabinet ministers and least 12 others, according to government officials....

World sees award with hope, doubt

August 22, 2021 at 11:39 p.m.

News of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize sparked wildly different reactions around the globe Friday, from elation to skepticism to icy disdain. As Tribune Newspapers reporters sought opinions from...

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