It started with a novelty songwriter stranded on a snowy night. Decades later, listeners still can’t get his song, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” out of their heads.
Category: Content Type: Personal Profile
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How a Soprano With Dyslexia Rose to the Heights of Opera
Elza van den Heever, a star of “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” at the Metropolitan Opera, no longer sees dyslexia as a hindrance — just a different way of learning.
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Maria Callas Photos: Getting to Know the Diva Behind ‘Maria’
The things that made Callas Callas.
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Nick Cave Will Take a Selfie With You, if You Insist
Back out on the road, and after working through his extreme grief, the longtime rocker is connecting with more fans than ever.
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Indiana Jones Chooses Wisely: The Biggest Voice in Gaming
Troy Baker, the industry’s go-to voice actor, channels a young Harrison Ford in the action-adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
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In the ’90s, She Was a Surprise Oscar Nominee. It May Happen Again.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since “Secrets and Lies” earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.
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A Poet Becomes a Jewelry Maker. But She Still is a Poet.
Teresa Kiplinger’s work features a mix of highly detailed images and fragments of her own poems.
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Who Is Brian Thompson?
Mr. Thompson managed a division that employs about 140,000 people and offers insurance plans to employers and individuals.
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Kieran Culkin Could Rule Oscar Season. He’d Rather Be at Home.
The “Succession” actor is an awards front-runner for “A Real Pain,” but his actual priority is being a dad: “That’s the whole point of life.”
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Is Robert Pattinson the Last True Movie Star?
He may have wanted to be an actor without being a celebrity. But then he turned his fame into its own kind of performance.