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The Week in Culture

Oct 8, 2009 8:27 PM EDT

Jude Law and Carrie Fisher debuted on Broadway, Chris Rock made a film about black women’s hair, we lost Gourmet, and more from the worlds of TV, film, and art.

This week, we got an Audrey Hepburn-in-training, Barbra Streisand was back on top, Chris Rock tackled the subject of black women’s hair, David Letterman continued to deal with extortion drama, Jude Law and Carrie Fisher debuted on Broadway, women won the Nobel and Booker Prizes, and we lost a fantastic photographer and a notable food magazine. All this and more in the week in culture.

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