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ELDER STATESMAN

Meet Hollywood’s Oldest Working Actor

Norman Lloyd is 100, has acted for Hitchcock and Orson Welles, and absolutely kills it in the Judd Apatow-Amy Schumer comedy ‘Trainwreck,’ now in theaters.

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Recap

A Superb, Egotistic ‘Girls’ Finale

The third season of HBO’s saga following the lives of four self-absorbed twenty-something women in New York ended on a sweet and sour note. [Warning: Spoilers!]

Marlow Stern

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Driver's Seat

The Guy on 'Girls'

Adam Driver, the breakout star of ‘Girls,’ discusses his character’s captivating arc and the events that led up to Sunday night's explosive episode ‘Role-Play.’ [Warning: Spoilers!]

Marlow Stern

Racism Isn't Natural. But I Suspect Xenophobia Is.

Our brains don't lock in racial coding until a fairly advanced age. But that doesn't mean we're headed for utopia.

Megan McArdle

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This Week’s Culture Feast

TV’s best gather for the Emmys, the U.S. Open kicks off, and George Clooney shows his true colors as an assassin in The American. Check out more can’t-miss film, TV, art, and music picks on the table this week.

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Best of Brit Lit

A weekly look at great reads by the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Philip Larkin goes Hollywood, the portrait of a portraitist, and getting rich quick in China.

Peter Stothard

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Teddy's Eulogy for Bobby

In 1968, the young senator delivered the eulogy at the funeral of his slain brother. He concluded with a favorite quote of Bobby's, by George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I see dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' "

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