Entertainment Columns

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

Cannes Film Festival 2012: Stalled in the past, with few surprises

Whether it’s the weather, the traffic or the movies, perhaps the best word to describe the Cannes Film Festival this year is “stuck.”

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Ann Hornaday

Brad Pitt debuts ‘Killing Them Softly’

Brad Pitt arrives at Cannes to discuss his new movie ‘Killing Them Softly.’

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Ann Hornaday

Nicole Kidman to star in butler movie

The film is based on a Washington Post story about long-time White House butler, Eugene Allen.

Chris Richards

Chris Richards

Washington’s young jazz messengers

Giovanni Russonello and Luke Stewart’s capitalbop.com Web site is finding new audiences for D.C.’s jazz venues.

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Chris Richards

Remembering Doc Watson, 89

Legnendary blind guitarist Doc Watson, known for his speedy and influential flatpicking, has died at age 89. We remember him through The Post’s archives.

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Chris Richards

Pop music weekly update

Justin Bieber roughs up paparazzi? And more from the world of pop music.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on HBO: Swept away

Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman star in HBO’s stylish but silly movie about the tumultuous marriage of two great writers.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

“Hatfields & McCoys:” Brawlers in the holler

History’s three-night miniseries — starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton — fails to find meaning in the tragic tale of the legendary family feud.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

TBS’s ‘Men at Work’: A weak sitcom about modern manhood

REVIEW | Danny Masterson stars in a limp sitcom about four bros discovering every cliche about the office and the opposite sex.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Eisenhower family remains opposed to core design of Gehry memorial

While Dwight Eisenhower’s family welcomed changes to the memorial unveiled this month, it remains opposed to the fundamental architectural idea of metal tapestries depicting the heartland, on worries of cost and sustainability.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Variations on Jasper Johns’s art

A new exhibition of Jasper Johns’s print work, “Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme,” features about 101 prints made over the course of Johns’s career, from 1960 to a year ago.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

The world doesn’t end

EXHIBIT | ”Maya 2012: Lords of Time” takes visitors back thousands of years while giving the all hope for the future.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Neale Perl to step down as WPAS head

After 10 years, Neale Perl will leave the Washington Performing Arts Society.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dies

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a master singer of German art songs, died May 18.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Washington Chorus takes on Wagner, and wins

Julian Wachner and the Washington Chorus take on in a challenging program of Wagner — and see the risk pay off with a rollicking afternoon.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

The Eye grabs the most American peepers for 2011-12 TV season

CBS won the 2011-12 TV season by averaging nearly 12 million viewers each week. That’s about 3 million more viewers than closest competitor Fox — the largest margin of victory of any network in more than two decades.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

Bristol Palin show finally ready to run

After being retooled again, the reality show focusing on her life as a single mother will debut in June.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

Will ‘Idol’s’ Phil Phillips break the mold?

Jimmy Iovine of ‘Idol’ says Phil Phillips is not just another Safely Scruffy White Guy With Guitar.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

‘Coppelia’ is the freshest ballet around

REVIEW | The Bolshoi Ballet’s performance crackles with personality, activity and delicate moments of stillness.

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Sarah Kaufman

Blue Angels at Andrews

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Sarah Kaufman

In Mildred Holt, Johnny Carson met his match

Drinking a highball and wearing pearls, my great-grandmother tickled “Tonight Show” host in 1987, becoming his oldest guest ever.