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"Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality," by Jacob Tomsky Nov 23rd 2012, 22:35 For the uninitiated, staying at a luxury hotel can be a little intimidating. On top of the exotic amenities and premium services, you encounter shiny people at every turn, like extra utensils at a fancy place setting, ready to do things for you that — no, really — you'd much rather do yourself. Do you tip the doorman? Can you keep the Swiss lotion? What, exactly, is "turndown service," and why on Earth would anyone ever need it? Read full article >> Smithsonian's 'Food' chronicles America's culinary contradictions Nov 23rd 2012, 17:46 The fact that "Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000," at the National Museum of American History makes visitors want to talk, not eat, is just the first of many of the exhibit's contradictions. Read full article >> D.T. Max on the life of David Foster Wallace Nov 23rd 2012, 17:27 New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max never formally met enigmatic novelist David Foster Wallace. But he became fascinated with his electric works ("Infinite Jest," "The Broom of the System," "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,") and Wallace's explorations of what it meant to be alive in the information-overload era. Wallace, tortured with depression and mental illness, committed suicide in 2008. Max wrote a magazine profile of him shortly thereafter, and that led to three years of work on "Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace," published in September. Read full article >> John Malkovich's passionate 'Liaisons' Nov 23rd 2012, 17:19 John Malkovich has been a top-shelf slinky villain at least since playing the viper Valmont in the 1988 film "Dangerous Liaisons." He returns to the scene of the crime with his French-language "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," a production Malkovich directed for the Parisian troupe Theatre de l'Atelier; the show alights at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre for four days, Dec. 6-9. Read full article >> 'Civil War and American Art' puts the battle in the background Nov 23rd 2012, 17:09 The largest and most dramatic paintings in "The Civil War and American Art" don't have anything particularly warlike in them, no cannons or gun smoke or bayonets glistening in the morning sun. Rather, there are landscapes, mountain vistas, seaside idylls and views of the night sky. Even some of the explicitly military scenes, such as one 1862 canvas showing soldiers gathered to hear Sunday prayers, is more about the grass, trees and a distant, rolling river than it is a narrative of human faith, fear and the fiery furnace. Read full article >> A 'Christmas Carol' with an ASL twist at Gallaudet Nov 23rd 2012, 17:01 On the stage of a spacious auditorium at the nation's premier university for the deaf, a worker nails Styrofoam snow to the eaves of a mock-up of a 19th-century London streetscape, as actors in exaggerated masks — one playing crusty Ebeneezer Scrooge, another kindly Bob Cratchit — practice a scene in the dank offices of the Christmas holiday's most celebrated miser. Read full article >> 'Love Fail': A crossover star's star-crossed lovers Nov 23rd 2012, 16:56 Ten years ago, the composer David Lang was a maverick outsider who was tolerated but somewhat patronized by the classical music establishment: too light, too pop-influenced, too superficial. Today, David Lang has won the Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy, been featured at Carnegie Hall, and has just been named Musical America's Composer of the Year. Read full article >> Lindsay Lohan stars as Elizabeth Taylor in lifeless 'Liz & Dick' Nov 23rd 2012, 16:29 The Lifetime Original Movie "Liz & Dick" should not be called "Liz & Dick." It should be renamed "Lindsay Lohan and an Actor Whom You May or May Not Remember as Cooter From 'True Blood.' " At no point in this unenergetic revisiting of the legendarily volatile romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton does it actually feel like you're watching Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Instead, we get Grant Bowler (who really was Cooter on HBO's "True Blood") brooding and boozing as Burton and Lohan whipping through Cleopatra costumes, awards-show evening gowns, mod headbands and, most comically, '80s era-bouffant wigs like she's the sole contestant in a Liz Taylor lookalike contest. It's unconvincing and lifeless but, sadly, not quite laughable enough to rise to the level of enjoyably campy little lark. Read full article >> Helen Mirren's 'Hitchcock' performance generating Oscar buzz Nov 23rd 2012, 15:48 Its main commercial attraction may be the novelty of seeing a heavily made-up Anthony Hopkins impersonate the Master of Suspense, but the heart of the new biopic "Hitchcock" isn't Sir Alfred. It's the director's wife, Alma, little known to the public but an enormous influence on the auteur's films. Read full article >> 'The X Factor': Arin Ray, Beatrice Miller sent home in a live double elimination Nov 23rd 2012, 11:00 FROM FOX — On a special Thanksgiving night live results show, and in another double elimination, Arin Ray, one of Britney Spears' Teens, and Beatrice Miller, another of Spears' Teens, were eliminated on The X Factor. Read full article >>

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