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Two years before Woodstock, a music festival in Monterey, Calif., brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
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June 14, 2007 · Actor Isaiah Washington will not be invited by ABC to return for another season of the hit program Grey's Anatomy, where he plays Dr. Preston Burke. This, after he reportedly used an anti-gay slur toward one of his cast-mates. Not everyone supports his firing, including two gay activists.
June 13, 2007 · Documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been making films for four decades. His latest project, State Legislature, chronicles the inner workings of democracy by following the day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature. The documentary begins airing on PBS Wednesday night.
June 11, 2007 · Creators of successful dramas start to resent the popularity of what they've done — and take it out on the audience. It is hard to come up with a good ending. But that doesn't excuse what David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, put on HBO Sunday night.
June 11, 2007 · The Sopranos' final episode aired last night on HBO. Spoiler alert: Critic David Bianculli's review tells us how the episode, and the series, concludes.
June 11, 2007 · Anyone who watches public television is familiar with its pledge drives. And PBS has always used music specials to bring in the bucks. But more and more these days, PBS is going after pledges with big rock 'n roll shows. This month, some public TV stations around the country are featuring concerts by Bruce Springsteen and Donovan.
June 11, 2007 · Ousmane Sembene was one of the most important writers of sub-Saharan Africa. He was also, arguably, its most important filmmaker. Sembene's novels and short stories gained international acclaim, but because many of his own people could not read, he started making movies.
June 11, 2007 · The creators of "Ask a Ninja," a series of videos with millions of viewers on the Internet, hope to turn their recent Web awards into financial success. The series features a masked character delivering advice — with a humorous twist. Web Extra: Ask a Ninja Videos
June 11, 2007 · The series finale of The Sopranos is a hot water-cooler topic. But many who planned to watch the last episode of the long-running HBO show by tape, TiVo or rerun are now trying to avoid hearing how it all wrapped up.
June 10, 2007 · Renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese has attached his name to Golden Door, an Italian film that tells the story of a Sicilian family's journey to America. Scorcese discusses his interest in the project and how films have captured the immigrant experience.
June 9, 2007 · The new addition to Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens Saturday. It's a complex of five rectangular, milky white glass structures built into the hillside. Some are calling it the best new art museum in a generation. But the contemporary addition to this Kansas City landmark is raising some hackles.
June 9, 2007 · Horror films increasingly skip the supernatural shivers in favor of extended torture scenes; detractors say that with their gross-out excesses and unsettling mass appeal, these films are a kind of "torture porn." But they've never been bigger at the box office. Web Extra: See a Clip, Hear Extended Interviews
June 8, 2007 · Easygoing dialogue, a relaxed message: Wave-riding penguin mockumentary Surf's Up is PG-gentle, sweet, and laid-back like no kid flick you'll remember. Web Extra: Watch Clips
In the 1970s, Clifford Irving got a million-dollar advance for an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
A question over the film's music rights has kept it out of theaters, despite its legions of fans.
A vast new exhibit illuminates the wide-ranging cultural influences that went into Latin America.
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