Javier bardem

It was hard to know what to expect from a conversation with the actor Benicio del Toro. He isn’t someone who tends to play the celebrity game, instead immersing himself in his screen roles and then sl

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

No one has ever fallen for the Basque County quite like Archduchess Maria Christina. An exquisite pianist and polyglot, she left the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy to marry King Alfonso of Spain in 1879

IF YOU HAPPEN TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE STAGE DURING THE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF GYPSY ON BROADWAY, AND TURN INSTEAD TO THE AISLE, YOU’LL SEE A WOMAN STANDING ALONE IN THE DARK. She’s in a velvet coat, h

ON THE FIRST SUNDAY NIGHT IN APRIL, DRUMS ARE beating and horns are blaring in a boisterous Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates make a humdrum regular

Was there a moment where it felt like you’d hit the big time? In a room backstage, and there was Anthony Joshua, Madonna and Salman Rushdie. I was like, I don’t know what kind of illuminati thing I’ve