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French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris on Tuesday. Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFP via Getty Images PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday presented renovation plans for the Louvre, the world’s most-visited…

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Questlove at the 2023 Academy Awards. His documentary, Ladies and Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music, airs Monday on NBC. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mike Coppola/Getty Images Here’s a one-sentence review: The new film about Saturday Night Live‘s five-decade history of (mostly) live musical performances kicks off with the best opening…

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In Presence, Chloe (Callina Liang) is the first to pick up on strange phenomena in the family’s new home. NEON hide caption toggle caption NEON The haunted-house thriller Presence has a formal conceit so clever, I’m surprised it hasn’t ever been done or attempted before. Maybe another movie has done it that I’m not aware…

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PIEN HUANG, HOST: The fitness industry in the U.S. is big business. According to the latest numbers from the Health and Fitness Association, people in the U.S. are spending some $22 billion a year to sweat, dance and pump iron at the gym and in group fitness classes. But it wasn’t that long ago that…

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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: This week’s Oscar nominations kicked off the annual debate of what Academy voters got wrong and right – but let’s be honest, mostly wrong. Many movie lovers are celebrating nominees like Colman Domingo for the prison drama “Sing Sing” and Demi Moore for “The Substance,” but some beloved performers did not make…

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Feiffer, who died Jan. 17, first published his self-titled comic strip in The Village Voice in 1956. Later syndicated, Feiffer went on to run for more than four decades. Originally broadcast in 1982. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter, died Friday at his home in…

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Dear Pepper is an advice-column comic by Liana Finck. If you have questions for Pepper about how to act in difficult situations, please direct them to [email protected]. Questions may be edited for brevity and clarity. Dear Pepper, All of my adult life, I’ve been flitting between art jobs. At times I’ve wanted a stable gig,…

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British singer Petula Clark’s single “Downtown” hit the number one spot on the U.S. billboard charts in 1965. At 92, she’s planning a concert in London. Pip/BMG hide caption toggle caption Pip/BMG Sixty years ago, on Jan. 23, 1965, “Downtown” reached the top of the U.S. charts and made Petula Clark a star. The tune…

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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: It is award season, and like many years before, that means at least one biopic is in the mix of nominated films. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”) TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: (As Bob Dylan) Two hundred people in that room, and each one wants me to be somebody else. They should just let…

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Michele Austin play sisters in Hard Truths. Bleecker Street hide caption toggle caption Bleecker Street In the many beautifully observed working-class dramedies he’s made over the past five decades, the British writer and director Mike Leigh has returned again and again to one simple yet endlessly resonant question: Why are some…

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