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Matthew Weiner, with Emmy in hand, accepted the outstanding drama series award on behalf of the AMC series he created, "Mad Men."
By EDWARD WYATT
Cable networks held their own against the broadcasters in the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, taking home some of the most prestigious honors of the night.
TELEVISION
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is the bleakest, gloomiest series on American television.
DANCE
By ROSLYN SULCAS
Brigitte Lefèvre, the director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, has outlasted dancers and administrators, with her ideals intact.
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
The book, lyrics and music of the new Broadway musical "A Tale of Two Cities" has been written by a self-taught novice Jill Santoriello. The show opens on Thursday.
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By A. O. SCOTT
Obsessive, ironical, needy: David Foster Wallace's voice was the voice in your head.
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REVIEWED BY JANET MASLIN
In "The Given Day," Dennis Lehane has written a majestic, fiery epic that moves him far beyond the confines of the crime genre.
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The director Fernando Meirelles takes a risk with his new movie, 'Blindness," by making an apocalyptic film that doesn't externalize our fears in the form of zombies, vampires or giant monsters of indeterminate origin.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
"Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors," at the Morgan Library & Museum, is a compact, elegant exhibition.
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The tension between political idealism and consumerism is a recurrent theme of "Cold War Modern: Design 1945 to 1970," an exhibition opening Thursday at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
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— REVIEWED BY DWIGHT GARNER AND MIKE PEED
As John Capouya makes plain in his slim, genial new pop biography, the wrestler "Gorgeous George," had an electrifying effect on millions of people in the early days of television; While for the orphaned Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, the heroine of Beatrice Colin's new novel, "The Glimmer Palace," "the only reality she could grasp was the reality of the film set."
By HILARIE M. SHEETS
An anthropological interest in home and identity, and the idealistic belief that images can help bring about social change, are both fundamental to Catherine Opie's wide-ranging photographs.
BOOKS
The author Barton Gellman, in his study of Dick Cheney's vice presidency, writes that "the vice president shifted America's course more than any terrorist could have done."
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Sales at Sotheby's and Christie's this week demonstrated that while the very foundations of the financial world are shaking, the fundamental strength of the art market remains remarkable.
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REVIEWED BY STEPHEN HOLDEN
The filmmaking debut of Stuart Townsend, an Irish actor, the film is a fictionalized account of the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization.
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
In a performance on Thursday, held in memory of Luciano Pavarotti and conducted by James Levine, Verdi's Requiem came across as a towering choral work.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'GHOST TOWN'
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The sharp comic timing and the offbeat chemistry of Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni keep "Ghost Town" afloat.
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ART REVIEW | VAN GOGH
By ROBERTA SMITH
The show of paintings, drawings and letters by Vincent van Gogh at the Museum of Modern Art is small and quirky: it is an anti-blockbuster.
BOOK REVIEW | 'INDIGNATION'
By DAVID GATES
"Indignation," set during the Korean War in a small, conservative Ohio college, evokes a nasty period of America's social history, but like Roth's two previous novels, it's also ruthlessly economical and relentlessly death-bound.
By DAVID KELLY
Will Self hates you. No matter who you are, no matter what you profess to believe, he can't stand you. As an accomplished satirist, he's entitled to hate you, but you're entitled - perhaps you should even be encouraged - to hate him right back.
By JODY ROSEN
Goldberg is not a Great Man Theory of rock history. Instead, in his book he focuses on little-known events and minor figures, offering amusing glimpses behind the scenes to show how populist tastes were shaped and catered to.
By HILMA WOLITZER
To the surprise of the author and this reader, those additional years toward the end of life - precious, if often challenging - serve mostly to strengthen rather than sever the fraying tethers of marital commitment.
By CHARLES MCGRATH
Julian Schnabel is a painter who works quickly, whether to award the winner of a credit-card contest or to salute a world-famous tenor on his 40th Met anniversary.
FILM
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
The madness in David Lean's method is what gives his work its quivering, almost alarming life. His films will be shown at Film Forum's centennial retrospective.
MUSIC
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Opera is, first and foremost, a vocal art form. If it allows things to get too cavalierly explicit, it will have to grapple with the same questions of relevance, gimmickiness and sensationalism that have dogged theater, film and dance.
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