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'Peter Pan' star Allison Williams: Why she was born to play the boy who wouldn't grow up'Losing your shadow... As a kid you just accept it,' Williams said. 'But as an adult, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what it means.' Williams will take on the role of Peter Pan in the live musical version of the story airing on NBC on Dec. 4.
Top Picks: 'Bob Dylan and the Band Basement Tapes Complete,' Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' and 'The Women of the Bible,' and more'Bing Crosby Rediscovered' on PBS's 'American Masters' looks beyond the crooner's holiday songs, NBC's 'Peter Pan Live!' stars actors Allison Williams and Christopher Walken as well as Broadway vets like 海角大神 Borle and Kelli O'Hara, and more top picks.
Hello Kitty at 40: from coin purse to $7 billion phenomCelebrations of the anniversary have included Hello Kitty Con in Los Angeles and themed dishes at eateries nearby.
Top Picks: Smithsonian Channel's program 'Mass Extinction,' the website MealSharing.com, and moreThe website NatGeoFood.com helps raise awareness of the stories behind the food we eat, the HBO series and Foo Fighters album 'Sonic Highways' taps into America's musical heritage through the cultural fabric of eight cities, and more top picks.
Cecily Strong, 'SNL' star, will host 2015 White House Correspondents' DinnerStrong is a fairly recent addition to the 'Saturday Night Live' cast and formerly hosted the 'Weekend Update' segment of the program. Strong will be the fourth woman to headline the Correspondents' Dinner.
Top Picks: The band Postmodern Jukebox, the 'Independent Lens' film 'Happiness,' and moreThe PBS program 'Killer Landslides' examines what causes the landslides and whether people can be warned in time, Hayao Miyazaki's film 'The Wind Rises' is a visual stunner, and more top picks.
Illuminated urban canvasNuit Blanche or 'white night' evening events, which began in Paris, aim to connect projection artists with the public.
Top Picks: The new Pink Floyd album 'The Endless River,' 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' on DVD, and morePBS's 'Navy SEALS: Their Untold Story' looks at the history of the SEALs and their predecessors, the Lifetime biopic 'Aaliyah' depicts the rise to fame of the star, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Shakey Graves' new album 'And the War Came,' the retrospective 'Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography,' and moreMusic writer Greil Marcus's book 'The History聽of Rock聽鈥檔鈥櫬燫oll in Ten Songs' uncovers what makes songs memorable and influential, the documentary 'Powerless' looks at the lack of electricity in Kanpur, India, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Hunter Davies' book 'The Beatles Lyrics,' an app to help you pack, and moreKat Edmondson's new album 'The Big Picture' has original songcraft and inventive arrangements, a multimedia project gives insight into East German refugees' journey to West Germany, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The podcast StartUp, Bill Frisell's new album 'Guitar in the Space Age,' and moreAuthor P.D. James' novel 'Death Comes to Pemberley' is adapted for TV, the Library of Congress exhibit 'The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom' highlights components from the library's collection to illustrate the fight for equality, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Barbra Streisand's album 'Partners,' the PBS series 'How We Got to Now,' and moreThe James Beard Foundation's first app, titled 'Vegetables,' offers recipes for meatless dishes, the movie 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' arrives on DVD and Blu-ray, and more top picks.
Tony Award winner, Bond villain Geoffrey Holder diesHolder won Tonys for, among other achievements, directing the show 'The Wiz.' In addition, he portrayed a villain in the James Bond film 'Live and Let Die' and starred in the movies 'Annie' and 'Doctor Dolittle.'
Now you can 'buy' a share of local art, tooSpringboard for the Arts,聽a Minnesota arts development group, came up with the idea of selling prints and paintings the way onions and potatoes are being marketed to urbanites.
Top Picks: Paolo Nutini's new album 'Caustic Love,' the PBS Arts Fall Festival, and moreThe crew of the documentary 'Penguins: Spy in the Huddle' gets close to penguins by disguising their cameras, Leonard Cohen's new album 'Popular Problems,' is simple and unadorned, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Star Walk app, the three-CD box set 'Real World 25,' and moreThe PBS series 'Food Forward TV' features people across the US looking for solutions to the problems in our food system, the movie 'Chef' is a heartwarming tale about a chef opening a food truck with his sous-chef and young son, and more top picks.
鈥楾he Lion King鈥� has the most successful box office total everThe stage musical overtook 'The Phantom of the Opera' this summer and now has the most successful box office total of any work in any media in entertainment history. The highest-grossing movie of all time, 'Avatar,' made almost $2.8 billion compared to the $6.2 billion gross of 'The Lion King.'
Top Picks: Joe Bonamassa's new album 'Different Shades of Blue,' National Geographic Wild's 'The Secret Life of Cats,' and moreThe documentary 'Koch' looks at the life of the controversial former New York mayor, the book 'Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words' includes the real-life tales and romantic adventures that inspired her lyrics, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The movie 'Words and Pictures,' the jazz musician Jon Batiste and his band Stay Human, and moreKen Burns' new series 'The Roosevelts: An Intimate History' is a look at fascinating history through the lens of a remarkable family, a stage production of 'A Streetcar Name Desire' starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster, and Vanessa Kirby comes to movie theaters, and more top picks.
Vanessa Hudgens will star in a Broadway-bound production of 'Gigi'Vanessa Hudgens, who starred in the 'High School Musical' series, will reportedly play the lead in the show. Vanessa Hudgens recently starred in a Hollywood Bowl production of 'Rent.'
