It was unfair to blame her for the fictional zero-sum game of her successes equaling his failures. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It’s different than when I was there, but it’s nice to think that another kid, even a fictional one, has seen the inside of one of those places. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I felt as if all the fictional ideas I cooked up were nothing compared to what was going on around me in real life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Like, how many fictional people died in that fictional movie? Not enough,” he joked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The global trade network of today is based on our trust in such fictional entities as the dollar, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the totemic trademarks of corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets, and municipalities and place them obscurely into their maps. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

What she recalls are the names and details of the lives of all the fictional characters from the party: Michelle and Gendry and Michael. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Makes me wish that I were a fictional character. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’s building a fictional earthquake scenario in Miami. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On news shows and on fictional shows alike, it was a constant parade of black people getting arrested and thrown in jail. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Louis the Eleventh, another of the fictional kings, had kept obnoxious bishops in rather expensive cages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this business will ever expand to fictional thrills, like running away from dragons, fighting a Cyclops, and magic carpet rides. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The self-focus actually connects her more deeply with other people—the other actors, people in the audience, even the fictional characters in the plays. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t, because I was unable to distinguish between the fictional story and the factual backdrop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess-game he was witnessing, move by move. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, as the nights passed, these fictional relatives began to crystallize in their minds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

These fictional dramas, like the evening news, tend to focus on individual stories of crime, victimization, and punishment, and the stories are typically told from the point of view of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a few pages in a burst of manic productivity, fictional portraits of a tall ebony-colored woman with a near-flat chest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Based on hearsay rather than personal experience? What if it’s purely fictional? Novel travelogues were quite a fashion in Modeg a couple hundred years ago.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blaze did minimal damage, but he filed a claim for $6,000 on a policy acquired by his fictional alter ego, Hiram S. Campbell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was dubbed the Black Pimpernel, a somewhat derogatory adaptation of Baroness Orczy’s fictional character the Scarlet Pimpernel, who daringly evaded capture during the French Revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels asks us to write about our favorite fictional character—a person we consider to be a hero—and be ready to tell the class about who it is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Penelope had never heard of Sherlock Holmes, of course, for in a fictional sense he had not been born yet, but she was a clever girl and no stranger to logic herself. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A fictional Ellis who talks to me—and not just when she needs something. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why did a fictional Martian invasion scare so many people? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else’s trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was behaving like the fictional Andromeda strain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes, which were shared with the program’s producers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The projects are the farthest thing from the fictional Brady Bunch neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If the fictional entry is found on another cartographer’s map, it becomes clear a map has been plagiarized. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

These television shows, especially those that romanticize drug-law enforcement, are the modern-day equivalent of the old movies portraying happy slaves, the fictional gloss placed on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Battle Cry’s Tania was fictional, but there were real women like her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had been prompted to start a diary because fictional heroines kept them and filled them with lush sighing thoughts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next essay was supposed to be fictional: “The Best Lost Homework Excuse Ever” in five hundred words. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Diary of a Red Army Woman, the fictional pilot Tania is furious about the German army’s destruction of her village and the murder of her family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I share an End Day with my favorite fictional villain. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And although I know I’m risking another brand on my forehead or worse, I say, “Excuse me, but I don’t believe those two fictional characters ever met.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She finds Vivian’s parents’ full names in the passenger records log— Patrick and Mary Power from County Galway, Ireland—and feels a vertiginous thrill, as if fictional characters have suddenly sprung to life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t bad, except we had to keep notes about Steinbeck’s technique because we were going to be writing our own travel accounts—fictional or nonfictional—for the year’s final composition. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cap wandered the halls like a lost soul in search of the fictional geography lab. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Television is overloaded with fictional dramas about police, crime, and prosecutors—shows such as Law & Order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For this aspect of their troubled genius Beethoven and his contemporaries had two irresistible fictional role models: Faust and Prometheus. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I would rather write about something fictional, because I do not want to be reminded of where I come from. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The production was so popular that national and international tours were organized to provide an authentic presentation of the fictional story to audiences everywhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The radio station and local newspapers advertised the fictional program during the previous week. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The last thing I was interested in was a fictional story about justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Doc Savage to whom he referred was a fictional hero popular among adolescent readers of pulp magazines a generation ago. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I believe gay/straight alliance clubs must also be fictional. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The film, which takes a “mockumentary” look inside the workings of the fictional rock band Spinal Tap, succeeds because it takes its characters seriously. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'This is Spinal Tap' 2011-07-19T21:20:15Z

The chalklike markings on her face are specific to her fictional clan in the film, the River Tribe. In ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ One Scene Celebrates and Commemorates 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The phenomenon began in the 1960s when cheaper, lighter boards and Gidget, a fictional girl surfer popularised in a book, film and TV series, turned surfing into a mainstream sport, producing crowding on the waves. California's surf wars: wave 'warlords' go to extreme lengths to defend their turf 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

“All these rabid rumors about her and their relationship are laughable and fictional,” she wrote. In New York, searching for the reclusive and elusive Melania Trump 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

A new exhibition marking the big anniversary looks at another side of the fictional secret agent - his role as trend-setter. Fashion, fast cars: show eyes Bond film style legacy 2012-07-05T14:23:41Z

In other regards, however, this is hardly a departure from Pamuk’s trademark fictional world. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Karen is a fictional coach in a software-driven experiential art piece. Karen, an App That Knows You All Too Well 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Because “Merrily” was a musical about the ravages of time on friendship and youthful ideals, the documentary tells parallel stories — one fictional, the other real — of disappointment and disillusion. Review: Merrily (and Ruefully) Recalling an Epic Broadway Flop 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

They live on Carousel Court, in the fictional town of Serenos, near Los Angeles, where wildfires loom, coyotes roam and strangers trawl suburban streets to loot foreclosed, vacant homes. This couple will stop at nothing to keep their house and marriage afloat 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

They are, in a profound sense, what the movie is about, and what — in contemplating the deaths of two fictional characters — it is specifically mourning. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Her large cast mixes factual and fictional characters, who interact in a complex and absorbing series of plotlines. Tides of War by Stella Tillyard – review 2012-06-19T07:00:02Z

Here, he plays a fictional Diplo who’s well-meaning but largely clueless and self-absorbed, given to imagining himself in ninja sword battles and musing about what Jesus would be like on Twitter. Review: James Van Der Beek, From ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to an Alt-Diplo 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The audition was for the role of Lou Grant, the gruff newsroom boss of Ms. Moore’s character, Mary Richards, a sweet-natured associate news producer at a fictional Minneapolis television station. Gavin MacLeod, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and ‘Love Boat’ Actor, Dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

“The Band’s Visit,” by contrast, is adapted from a fictional 2007 Israeli film about what happens when an Egyptian police band gets stranded for a night in an Israeli desert town. 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

He first tried to tell the story of the Starck Club in a fictional film, which he wrote in the mid-1990s. Texas Monthly: ‘The Starck Club’ Documents Rise and Fall of Dallas Nightclub 2014-04-13T00:53:32Z

Scripts, photographs, records, annuals and a school uniform from Grange Hill tell the story of the fictional London secondary school, which was the setting for on-screen teenage sagas for 30 years from 1978. BBC children's TV exhibition unveiled 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Building on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project led by Hannah-Jones that ran in the Magazine, this book includes new essays, fictional works and poems that explore the legacy of slavery in America. 16 New Books Coming in November 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Across the fictional island, political dissidents and their families are routinely disappeared and imprisoned. The Suicide Squad's grim portrait of real-life, US-Nazi collaboration 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Soon I'll be lying awake at night, worrying about who committed a fictional crime in a country I've never been to but which is beginning to feel familiar, almost like a second home. TV review: The Killing III; Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane; The Secret of Crickley Hall; Him & Her 2012-11-18T22:30:02Z

He returned to 15th-century France in “The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais,” the fictional memoirs of Joan of Arc’s comrade in arms and the first marshal of France. Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s very confrontational. It’s a fictional account of events that actually happened.” Human dissection as opera: It's the REDCAT world premiere of David Lang's 'Anatomy Theater' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Regardless of how true this tale is to Frey’s own personal story, the fictional version cries out for a richer, more succulent imagining. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

They describe their fictional character – developed through a close reading of architectural personalities in the press – with a mixture of pity and contempt. Elmgreen and Dragset plan mischief for V&A 2013-01-17T15:18:21Z

They live in Crystal, an affluent, fictional Colorado town that bears a strong resemblance to Boulder. What Wouldn’t a Parent Do to Get a Child Admitted to ‘The Gifted School’? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

All of Pressler’s most colorful anecdotes and appalling details have been squeezed in, sometimes tweaked to fit better within what is now a fictional narrative. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The fictional title character in “Billy Bates” was only just being born about that time. ‘Billy Bates,’ Starring James Wirt and Savannah Welch 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“The trailer appears to be a farce and confirms the totally fictional nature of this film,” Palace officials said. CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Here, and elsewhere, Jio blends fact and fiction in writing that Brown’s popular “Goodnight Moon” owes its genesis to the fictional Bluebird Books. Summer reads: romance, discovery and reconciliation 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

It may be worth remarking that some of the most memorable follicular explosions are fictional. What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Diller’s best-loved jokes, punctuated with a jackdaw’s cackle, skewered her fictional husband, Fang. The (Elegant, Brazen, Brainy) Pioneering Women of Comedy 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

But despite his growing profile, studios were skittish about the fictional but all-too-realistic gore of this passion project. Director Cary Fukunaga Tamed Beasts to Tell a Crucial African Story 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

By 1960, Dulles’ eagerness to please Kennedy extended to developing a fondness for the imaginative killing methods of James Bond, the British fictional spy code-named “007,” created by novelist Ian Fleming. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The show, which focuses on the lives of residents of the fictional northern English town of Weatherfield, is the world’s longest-running drama series. Queen Elizabeth II visits set of TV soap ‘Coronation Street’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The book focuses on a fictional survivor of the atrocities - who is now working as a carer in London - as her life becomes intertwined with two fellow women battling their own experiences of betrayal. Meet the Author: Jemma Wayne 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The surfaces are painted in mostly abstract patterns that resemble imaginary city maps or fictional machine diagrams, and complement such structural features as notches, shelves and windowlike apertures. Review | In the galleries: Renaissance influences synchronize with Magic Realism 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Clinton and Patterson’s fictional commander in chief brims with humanity, character and stoicism. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Have Written a Thriller. It’s Good. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Expect the annual cries about the fictional War on Christmas to become the War for Christmas on TV. Candace Cameron Bure & the Hallmark Xmas star exodus to a more "traditional" network 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

According to the director, the fictional aspects of the film help to bring the bigger issues together. Asante says new Belle film was 'gift' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Superman, one of DC Comics' flagship fictional heroes, begins his journey next month in Philadelphia. Superman's walk across America starting in Philly 2010-06-23T21:31:00Z

With the historical record lacking or shrouded, it is the perfect example of when fictional storytelling about an eminent person is warranted. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Even though, in the book, Mahound’s fictional scribe, Salman the Persian, rejects the authenticity of his master’s recitations, he records them as if they were God’s. Why “The Satanic Verses” remains so controversial 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

Why make a fictional movie, however tasteful, about the aftermath of a horror apparently based on the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, whose perpetrator killed 32 people and then himself? | 'Beautiful Boy': Alone to Face the Fallout From a Son?s Horrific Crime 2011-06-02T22:20:41Z

We are first introduced to the fictional organization Friends of Our Future via a short slide show narrated by its late female founder, a devoted, free-spirited protector of wildlife. Review: Nebunele Theatre's 'Friend's Enemy' explores idealism's betrayal 2010-08-19T21:05:00Z

And there are instances in some of the fictional re-creations when he seems more invested in delivering an entertaining documentary than an informative one. Review: The Surreal, Heartbreaking Case of ‘Three Identical Strangers’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

As the unknown questioner asks about events in the town, the children's faces are scared, blank or defiantly smiling, registering emotion in a way the film's openly fictional passages can't manage. 'Summer of Goliath': Usual small-town stories told in unusual way 2011-07-28T19:30:05Z

A: No, the backdrop is historical fact, but the story is completely fictional. Director-writer Amma Asante finds her groove in the political love story. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Obviously Catastrophe is fictional, but Rob do you feel the same way about using true stories for your stand-up. 'Catastrophe' Stars on Why the Couple Acutally Has a Model Relationship 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Twain also includes fictional stories within the book – tall tales like Cecil Rhodes finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod For many, Harris tweed may conjure images of itchy jackets worn by your grandad, fictional sleuths such as Miss Marple, or the local vicar. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z

Greg Garcia has turned his habit of writing fictional stories in the guest books of rental cabins, the better to freak out the next renters, into a series. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘What Would Diplo Do?’ and ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

If you're not teetering around town like a self-absorbed fictional television character, you can find yourself greeted warmly there. Dear France: I'm sorry about "Emily in Paris" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

At Comic Con, where attendees show off meticulously prepared costumes inspired by their favorite fictional characters, one generally does not dress up as the Joker without knowing which Joker they are. Jokers at Every Turn at Comic Con, but They Were on Their Best Behavior 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Moneyed yet miserable, the couple has come to an upscale resort on a fictional island, their marriage as becalmed as James’s artistic inspiration. ‘Infinity Pool’ Review: Body Trouble 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Newbridge was created to hold their growing company of characters, allowing a fictional proximity that adds reality and depth. Newbridge Calling: Scharpling & Wurster's 'The Best Show' memorialized 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

That ensemble may be enough reason to spend 12 hours or so at the fictional Litchfield prison, even if the drama occasionally lags. Television Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ a Nexflix Series 2013-07-10T20:13:07Z

MON Forensic scientists join Paul Bernays, filmmaker of the new documentary “How Sherlock Changed the World,” to reveal the fictional detective’s impact on criminal investigations, 7 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-02-13T20:52:52Z

South Riding is fictional but it's based on East Riding, where we filmed and where I was born and brought up. Anna Maxwell Martin: 'Loads of women's drama is really dumbed down' 2013-01-06T00:06:48Z

I'm afraid it's as if, as Fellowes digs, he inadvertently digs a hole for his fictional creation, because this is so much more exciting. TV review: Great Houses with Julian Fellowes 2013-01-22T22:00:01Z

He achieves a balance between the fictional characters and the real people caught up in the disaster. The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Two of those thresholds are not metaphorical, but they are fictional: "The Good Place" and "BoJack Horseman" each feature openings into the unknown, marking an ending within each series finale. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Throughout the show, the fictional characters intermingle with actors portraying actual figures of the time, including Keith Sweat, Special Ed, DJ Chuck Chillout and the executive Dante Ross. Review: ‘The Breaks’ Captures Hip-Hop in the ’90s, Music and All 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

During a four-episode story arc airing Tuesday through Friday, Neil’s friends and family gather in fictional Genoa City to remember the businessman whose full life included complicated relationships and a battle with alcoholism. ‘Young and the Restless’ honors Kristoff St. John, his work 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The film's fictional mortician has a factual inspiration: 27 westerners were in Nanjing when it fell to the Japanese, many exhibiting extreme bravery. The Flowers of War fails to bloom for Chinese film industry 2012-08-02T19:00:07Z

From 8½ to Boogie Nights, Sullivan’s Travels to Singin’ in the Rain, fictional movies about film-making are some of the very best in cinema. Francis and The Godfather: is Hollywood becoming creatively bankrupt? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Interspersed among the film’s authentic interviews, for instance, are mockumentary scenes that concoct fictional details about the tour. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

On the downside, the miniaturisation means that the ground is covered very fast, and inevitably some of the fictional texture is a bit flat. Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z

And after spending days holding the fictional Oliver’s hand, when he finally dropped it, the disconnect was gut wrenching. Acting Out a Nightmare 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

The 1975 classic — which became the top-grossing film of all time after its debut — tells the tale of a man-eating Great White shark that terrorizes the fictional New England resort town of Amity Island. The Internet Is Sharing Hilarious Lessons Learned From Watching Jaws 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”, the first instalment in the famed fantasy trilogy set in the fictional land of “Middle-earth”. New Zealand to be Middle-earth again in Amazon's The Lord of the... 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Each week, three C-listers jostle to be promoted to a fictional role in the community. Tonight's TV highlights: Digging For Britain 2010-09-01T23:05:00Z

The mostly nonprofessional actors in the film, set in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Baltimore, play versions of themselves in a fictional story about the drug-overdose death of a 24-year-old man named Cory. | 'Putty Hill': Drugs, Death and Downward Mobility in Baltimore 2011-02-17T23:38:30Z

We as the reader come to this fictional Diana through a fictional schoolmate Sandy she confides in, who she then has this pivotal recurring moment with later on near the end of her marriage. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

Billing itself as the fictional "Kartun Development Group," the studio proposed a series of parody buildings that would contain worker housing at the core and luxury housing around the perimeter. How a SCI-Arc design spoof predicted New York's 'poor doors' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

As holiday movies bring viewers into a fictional world, people are able to work through their own fears and desires about self-worth and relationships. What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Plumb mused about the blur of real and fictional lives in the film, her first feature-length project. Encounters : Shannon Plumb, A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen 2013-08-28T23:14:51Z

Despite his proud Welsh identity, Rhys is now to play a major American fictional hero: Perry Mason. American hero Matthew Rhys is proud to be Cardiff-born and bred 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

We are told these films are fictional, yet they all begin with the title: "Based on firsthand accounts of actual events". Zero Dark Thirty and Argo don't do justice to Arabs 2013-02-20T13:00:00Z

The death of one of the world’s most famous fictional detectives was so momentous an occasion that it made the front page of the New York Times: “Hercule Poirot Is Dead,” the headline read. ‘Monogram Murders’: Thanks to Sophie Hannah, no ‘Curtain’ for Poirot after all

“Isle of Dogs” takes place in the near future, in a fictional Japanese city where snout fever and other canine ailments have given the cat-loving mayor an excuse to banish all dogs. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

"There will never be a fictional character who will be more interesting than Richard Feynman," Shaw said. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Among the answers to the many questions in competitions is Vibranium, the fictional metal that's part of Captain America's shield and Black Panther's suit. 20 Easter Eggs You Probably Didn't Notice in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

It was a fictional musical in a failed television show. 'Smash' Lives Again, in One-Night 'Bombshell' Concert 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

An obituary on Tuesday about Antony Jay, a creator of the British television series “Yes Minister,” misstated the name of the fictional government agency depicted in that show. Antony Jay, a Machiavelli Scholar and a Creator of ‘Yes Minister,’ Dies at 86 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

In the story, the fictional city of Omelas is actually a utopia, but its pleasures are predicated on the suffering of a single child in a dark, locked basement. Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I told you to be invisible, son,” growled his fictional father Leonardo DiCaprio. Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The first episode begins with Claire hearing reports of online threats being made against her, a sign of the passionately divided fictional America she now leads. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and ‘House of Cards’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Crosby was much better at being a fictional “father” in “Going My Way,” the 1944 film that won Crosby critical respect and an Academy Award for his role as a hip young Catholic priest. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The betrayal hits so hard in performance that I wanted to implore the fictional Sophie not to believe her friend, as she does, that it’s all his editors’ fault. ‘Breathless’ Review: Shopping Soothes an Anxious Mind 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

This speaks to an often ignored fact about stand-up comics who make art about characters named after themselves: Their work may draw on real life but can be as fictional as any other art form. Louis C.K. and Tig Notaro, Sparring on the Battlefield of Art 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Through this fictional character we see the ups and the downs of the media business that Hall may not be able to talk about yet. Tamron Hall, TV host and now mystery novelist, created a heroine to be "the reporter I wish I was" 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Dissent, in this fictional world, is easily overcome and easily swept away. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

After four years of fictional incarceration and three other billboards for “Orange Is the New Black,” I was offered the indescribable chance to play Sofia in the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple.” Danielle Brooks: The First Time I Saw Myself on a Billboard 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Is the fictional author Ruth's discovery of the diary a metaphor for how a story is born? Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist' 2013-03-07T09:00:01Z

And the whimsical show about the inner workings of a fictional New York symphony bested "Veep" and "Orange Is the New Black" in the top television category. 'Mozart in the Jungle' cast, Gael Garcia Bernal celebrate Golden Globe wins backstage 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Their love affair is fictional, dreamed up by novelist Tracy Chevalier for the book on which this film is based. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

His fictional company creates a similar kind of self-contained corporate world, with its own rules and aesthetics. What ‘Severance’ Is Made of: ‘Being John Malkovich’ and a Sizzler Steakhouse 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

The plight of the fictional Lucas family and the devoted newlyweds who refuse to be separated are finely judged and allow the legendary tales of real-life characters to breathe. The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

“Rap is the only fictional art form treated this way,” Andrea L. Dennis, co-author of the book “Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America,” told Younger last year. Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The producers help him out by setting him up in Verona, Italy, a.k.a. the hometown of fictional overly dramatic teenagers Romeo and Juliet. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Italian Cheese and Whine 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The WGN America drama is a fictional tale, but one based on history, documentary, and real accounts from people who would likely correct Carson by saying they worked so they wouldn’t be tortured or killed. John Legend’s Resistance TV: Season 2 of “Underground” is our reminder that freedom isn’t free 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Coop is heavyset, seasoned, and wearing a very bad wig on the first day of camp at Camp Firewood, in that one fateful, fictional summer. With “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp,” Netflix cracks the reboot code 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

We all thought he was a fictional character, but it stuck with us.” In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The most relevant, insightful comic of the moment is a fictional female dispensing one-liners in the Eisenhower era. Louis C.K. is back, and it's bad: Leaked stand-up set shows he's lost more than his reputation 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

The rooms each depict a “chapter” in the life of a fictional character named George Covell. The Best Small Hotels Around the World 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Holsinger’s book is set in the affluent, fictional city of Crystal, Colorado, where “everyone said or thought, we are happy, we are fit, we are woke, and even our streets are named for gems.” How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Last year Stephen Colbert found himself having to explain that a joke referencing the fictional character Ching-Chong Ding-Dong had been taken out of context on Twitter. The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Lloyd, played by Matthew Rhys, is a familiar type of fictional character: a soul in torment, a guy who has lost touch with his better self. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s so preoccupied with protecting the sanctity of the real marriage that there’s no imaginative risk to the fictional one. Hey, Are You Looking at Me? Good. Now, Buzz Off. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

She also researches details about conversion, finding stories by young women who have joined ISIS, to make her fictional narrative believable. In the tension-filled "Profile," a journalist goes catfishing online to get recruited by ISIS 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“I know the results of a ‘Bridget Jones’ experience and this is not a fictional character who’s up to my interpretation and just seeing what happens.” Why Renee Zellweger chose prosthetics and padding for ‘Pam’ 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

To the undeceived reader, there are other hints of fictional cross-dressing. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z

Damon Chua, who created a fictional espionage tale for “Film Chinois,” turns to real diplomatic disturbances in this Pan Asian Repertory show. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Strike also shares a trait with many great fictional detectives: He is darn good company. ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The unlikely subject of the play, which Rodrigues also wrote, is a fictional Portuguese family that hunts down and kills fascists, following a tradition passed down through generations. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Heroes such as Deadpool and Tank Girl, with their roving tastes, are the fictional equivalent, which explains why there are so few of them. Deadpool: the pansexual superhero who has never had a non-heterosexual experience 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

For him, the question “What is a fictional self?” leads to the question “What is this self we choose to call real?” Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new. Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

While Wakanda may be fictional, the film’s costume designer Ruth E. Carter drew from real people and places, traveling across Africa to study the patterns, bead work and silhouettes of various tribes and peoples. Marvel takes New York fashionistas to Black Panther’s Wakanda 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Watching a young woman pine for a man to kick-start her life is depressing enough, but watching her sigh for a fictional swain is just plain tragic. Movie Review: ‘Austenland’ Stars Keri Russell 2013-08-15T22:35:12Z

The fictional Pera’s job is the only apparent gap between them. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

There is the fictional Lewinsky, who buys Sassy magazine that day in the mall and helps Tripp make a spreadsheet of her sexual encounters with Clinton. Monica Lewinsky Is (Reluctantly) Revisiting ‘That Woman’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I can’t force myself to be even fictionally cruel to any other type of man. It makes the performance a lot easier,” she says. The pleasure revolution: the sex women really want 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

A sleuth from the fictional, filthy rich town of Neptune, Veronica traversed high school and college for three seasons, solving mysteries while cracking wise about the privileged locals. Movie Review: ‘Veronica Mars’ Returns, on the Big Screen This Time 2014-03-13T22:07:42Z

Mr. Murugan’s fictional villages are places full of quiet menace, where caste boundaries are protected with violence and social exclusion. ‘A Censor Is Seated Inside Me Now’: Hometown Wrath Tests a Novelist 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Because of the discrimination and poverty she experienced, she identifies with the struggles of her fictional characters. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

In an interview, Saadawi said that his “Frankenstein” is “the fictional representation of the process of everyone killing everyone.” The Novel After the Arab Spring 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

In the case of the fictional Pushcart War, I knew that I wanted the peddlers to win. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The still untitled movie, known by the working title “Bond 25,” will be Craig’s fifth go-around as Britain’s most famous fictional secret agent. Daniel Craig to have ankle surgery, 'Bond' film remains on schedule 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

We’re familiar with death as it occurs within the context of fictional television shows. A reality star we didn’t really know 2013-04-02T15:43:00Z

It starred Rachel Bilson as a former New York City surgeon who takes a job as a doctor in the fictional rural town of Bluebell, Ala.  'Hart of Dixie,' 'The Messengers' canceled by the CW 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Blue notes … Own Martell's fictional tale of Bill Evans reveals his isolation and idiosyncrasies. Intermission by Owen Martell – review 2013-02-22T20:00:01Z

Chicago has largely been brought to us on fictional television through the defibrillator. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z

"I thought I'd taken a real man and made him fiction," says Rankin, "but I'd actually taken a fictional man and made him fictional." Rebus revisited – Ian Rankin picks his favourite moments 2012-08-23T08:57:17Z

The picture portrays "fictional" soul singers with similar background and experiences as Sam & Dave. Studio loses key ruling in battle with soul icon 2010-05-18T01:17:00Z

The riches-to-rags saga of the fictional Bluth family and their struggling real estate business will return for a fifth season in hit comedy "Arrested Development," Netflix said Wednesday, inspired in part by U.S. Inspired by Trump, Netflix revives Bluths for new 'Arrested Development' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

There’s no constitutional prohibition against fictional characters voting in presidential elections. Mulder for Bernie: who would your favorite TV characters vote for? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

But if those two fictional constructs ran into each other at a party, I doubt Scott would give the Atlas kid the time of day. "Scott Pilgrim": The end of the nerd as we know him 2010-08-12T15:01:00Z

Lastly, there is the original James Bond, an ornithologist whose "flat, quiet name" was co-opted by Ian Fleming for his fictional character. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

Samuel opens “The Harder They Fall” with a title card noting it’s a fictional story but based on real historical figures: “These. People. Exited.” Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

On Veep you become one of two women presidents, which is actually lovely in a fictional world, maybe someday here. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

The majority are fictional villages, which do not recreate an actual location, and did not use authentic materials. Bourton-on-the-Water model village gets Grade II listed status 2013-04-18T23:05:03Z

Were he a fictional character, however, we likely would call him unrealistic, his life story and his career too good to be true. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

In response, destinations, tour operators and even film and TV production companies are striving to offer ever more experiential ways for people to engage with their favorite fictional worlds. For $18,500 (and Up), You, Too, Can Travel Like James Bond 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The novel is set in a fictional place in East Africa, Mapeli Town, and explores the lives of four generations of women, all members of the Brown family, who live on its outskirts. She’s a 12-Year-Old Girl and Also a Spirit That Can See Into Her Family’s Past 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

The series is about South Dakota's fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and Dashiell Bad Horse, who left the reservation as a teenager and returns as an undercover agent for the F.B.I. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Sex, Violence and Intrigue in 'Scalped' 2012-08-10T18:39:40Z

In Season 2 the fictional Anna and Maya negotiate the fallout from their school-dance three-way and cope with the increasingly childish behavior of Anna’s parents. Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The problem with “The Brink” is that the character of Steve Bannon is a fiction, and the film only perpetuates the legend that makes this fictional character loom noxiously large. Another Documentary Inadvertently Honors Steve Bannon 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

When Baig and the director Carol Morley were casting “The Falling,” they looked at more than 200 young women to play the two lead roles and other characters at the fictional girls’ school. Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

I didn't treat the character as someone creating a fictional past. "We are all unreliable witnesses": Stellan Skarsgård on memory and his new film "Out Stealing Horses 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

I don’t know whether these characters are real or fictional composites, or invented from scratch and played by actors. Movie Review: A Tutorial on Tolerance, With Beats and Upbeats 2011-08-11T22:18:11Z

It’s strange, perhaps, to crave more privacy for a fictional character, but I wanted it for Edie. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Children facing challenges in real life find tremendous comfort in the fictional familiar. Kids Love Multi-Volume Series About Big Families. No Wonder. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

He has often bristled at the notion, preferring to focus on their fictional elements. Filmmaker Noah Baumbach is hitting that middle-age groove 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

The novel takes its title from a book written by a fictional St. Louis Cardinal shortstop. 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z

Samara may be a fictional character, but the media we consume has an agency of its own, and that should horrify us more than it seems to. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

I was seeing enough fictional stories and documentaries with a range of different types of people that I hadn’t started compulsively profiling the filmmakers. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Andrea Barrett, says that “Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer’s life.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

His Lyonesse trilogy is set during the Middle Ages in the Elder Isles, a fictional archipelago where daily life is animated by political rivalries and the spells of witches and magicians. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

Just last year the name Atticus hit its highest level of popularity with 846 males named after the fictional character, according to Social Security records. Why is 'Atticus' worth defending? Think of the children -- and the pets 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Bly’s most celebrated stunt was her trip around the world, provoked by the journey made by Jules Verne’s fictional hero in “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Cartoonist Maria Scrivan, creator of the syndicated comic “Half Full,” follows the travails of a fictional girl’s difficult introduction to middle school. Review | Some graphic novels to read in 2020 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Yet in spite of the vogue for fantasy fiction, in the finest of literature’s fictional microcosms there is more truth than fantasy. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z

The canvas, painted by the fictional artist Ervin Kálmán and worth a few million, is small, shabby and “frankly, ugly,” Matt tells us in the novel’s opening. A Father-Son Novel Served With a Twist 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

It would make sense, at any rate, to refer to a particular kind of audacious fictional gesture as "McCannian". TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-05-26T13:00:01Z

The network says that Ms. de Havilland’s consent was not needed, because “Feud” falls squarely under protected speech around fictional works in the public interest. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

His reaction makes total sense, given that he’s responding to a fictional universe that’s home to versions — if not visions — of essential 20th-century characters like Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, Tarzan, Dracula and the Fantastic Four. ArtsBeat: A Strange, Familiar Place in ‘Planetary Omnibus’ 2014-02-20T21:09:02Z

Take a guided tour through the past, present and future of audio drama with these fictional standouts. Fiction Rising: Podcasts Grow Dramatic 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

But while we don’t get a deep look into the protagonist’s interiority, her resilience is as captivating in fictional form as was Bryant’s when she first made headlines more than two centuries ago. Fiction That Takes You Back in Time 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

A few fictional characters drive the narrative and best showcase Mallon’s gift for storytelling, but no one will be talking about them in the next few weeks. ‘Finale’ review: A novel of the Reagan years that’s packed with real-life barbs 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Teen drama, both real and fictional, continues to be a winning formula for MTV. ArtsBeat: A Cool Debut for 'Awkward' 2011-07-21T19:15:41Z

Unforgettably life-affirming types — who always speak their minds and grab each moment with two fists — are by no means my favorite fictional characters. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

And with GIFs, he contends, “fictional emotional displays and ‘real’ displays are made indistinguishable.” How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Without a Map” memoirist Meredith Hall’s first novel, “Beneficence,” follows the Senter family of fictional Alstead, Maine, through 15 years on their farm. Review | Meredith Hall’s ‘Beneficence’ is a quiet, poignant look at one family’s tragedy-strewn trajectory 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

The series is set in Arcadia, a fictional American suburb, as well as the secret subterranean city beneath it. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

We meet these characters in a very small, fictional town called Owl, North Dakota. Lily Rabe waited 15 years to make her directorial debut: "It's not the arena for playing it safe" 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

The moment Ms. Posey’s high-strung character, Susan Felders, sets foot in the Long Island division of a fictional supermarket chain, where she is the new boss, the lackadaisical employees are jolted into action. Movie Review: ‘Price Check,’ a Comedy by Michael Walker 2012-11-16T01:05:39Z

And Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess show a stoneware inventory of classic ceramic vase forms whose genre scenes, both fictional and observed, are glazed in rich, earthy color. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

One on Dave, the other on the fictional North Norfolk Digital. Ben Elton's standup comeback 2010-10-11T11:07:00Z

While he focused on his career, Greer grew into a lovely, busy blonde just a few years younger than Harry’s fictional daughter Rachel, played by Kristen Bell. Kelsey Grammer: 'People are so swift to judge, to react, to punish' 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

If the Marvel cinematic universe had existed in the 1960s, Poitier might have made a perfect Hulk: Like that fictional hero, his superpower was to stay angry, even at his most relatable. Sidney Poitier was an icon of racial reassurance. But his genius lay in his rage. 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

It follows the fictional Kimura family, whose lives are upended after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ‘Allegiance’ musical offers a lesson in hateful politics’ consequences 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Viewers are left to wonder whether the extreme silliness of Jo's marriage is "real" or fictional within the fiction of the movie. How both "Hustlers" and "Little Women" anticipated their own Oscar snubs 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

There’s also Bran Castle, which is probably the most touristy spot in Transylvania thanks to its dubious connections with both the fictional and historic Dracula. 6 Spooky Travel Destinations for the Halloween Season 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

More typical was a one-room thatched cottage with a mud floor at the Folk Park, representing the home of a fictional family of poor farm laborers, eight children and their parents. Northern Ireland’s lake lands: Rain, history and the Mellons 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

So here's a prophecy: fictional divination will always be hopelessly haphazard. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z

Outside the store stood large birdhouses painted with references to “Mockingbird” and the square; nearby is Radley’s Fountain Grill, named after Lee’s fictional shut-in, Boo, and the Maycomb Mall. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Speaking of serial killers, both real and fictional, you have a really interesting piece in this book about the mothers of serial killers. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

On the fictional side, there are tales of forbidden or just romantic love from Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Jamaica and even London, while I Am Divine, celebrates the Baltimore superstar who defied categorisation. This week's new film events 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z

They often use fictional alter egos as their stars. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

The new movie, based on the story of the mission, adds fictional characters modeled on the scientists, and those strong women are what attracted Vidya Balan, a well-known Bollywood actress, to the project. An Indian Space Mission Inspires a Bollywood Reckoning 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

I’ve never seen fictional American teenagers so excited about sandwiches before. We rewatched Netflix’s ‘To All the Boys’ rom-com trilogy to decide which movie is the best 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Mitchell founded one of the pre-eminent fictional podcasts, “The Truth.” And the Awards for Best Audio Fiction Go to … 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

They are not fictional, they are in a documentary, and they are on screen. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Bonanza' 2011-01-13T20:23:09Z

Hall said he saw parallels in the lives of Sir Elton and the fictional character of Billy, a young boy from a working class community who dreams of becoming a dancer. Elton film is from 'birth to rehab' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Yet pieces of it, like parts of the fictional Vesper’s ramshackle hideaway, are real. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The fictional scene uses far more active, interesting verbs, and is designed to evoke emotion in the reader. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z

July 31 is the most famous fictional birthday in contemporary literature: Harry Potter’s birthday. 17 Harry Potter Stars Wish J.K. Rowling a Happy Birthday 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

And his new deal lets him expand his purview: It includes three YA books and four books set in an entirely different science fictional universe, the details of which are to be determined. John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But let’s begin at the beginning, with “The Part About the Critics,” which focuses on the relationships among four academics all obsessed with the same fictional postwar German novelist, Benno Von Archimboldi. Review: Bolaño’s Mysterious ‘2666,’ Distilled to 5½ Hours by the Goodman Theater 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

“It made me want to write a fictional letter from a Senegalese soldier,” he added. ‘Frightening’ Tale of Senegalese Soldier Wins International Booker Prize 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

The plays are based on Dame Hilary's Booker Prize-winning fictional accounts of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII. Wolf Hall plays to move to Broadway 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

A neighbor of the Lee family’s resembled the fictional shut-in and agitated about suing after the publication of “Mockingbird.” Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Another series that she might enjoy is Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the first in the Wolves Chronicle, a series of books set in a fictional 19th century. Which series of books are ideal for a seven-year-old girl? 2013-01-14T14:53:39Z

Women are titillated by great stories, putting themselves in the position of the heroine and enjoying the attentions of a fictional suitor who satisfies their every need. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

The book, to be published by the Penguin Random House imprint One World, also features seven new essays from historians, and dozens of new poems and fictional works. Two books based on ‘1619 Project’ coming out in November 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the play a fictional conversation occurs between the two men. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z

The action-comedy sequel follows a fictional British spy organisation that joins forces with an American counterpart to search for a drug lord’s hideout, which turns out to be a jungle-ringed temple in Cambodia. Kingsman and the temple of doom: Cambodia bans spy flick 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

He is a world away from the Harvard men he eventually joins forces with, like the wisecracking, determined and fictional Alan Barber. 'Percival's Planet': Michael Byers' novelistic take on the discovery of Pluto 2010-07-28T22:13:00Z

It scarcely mattered that one of them was fictional. No mid-life crisis for 007 as Bond films turn 50 2012-10-02T15:43:12Z

The "Grey's Anatomy" star who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd, a surgeon at fictional Seattle Grace Hospital, said his offer bested those from six rival bidders - including global coffee giant Starbucks Corp. 'Grey's Anatomy' star Patrick Dempsey buying Tully's coffee 2013-01-04T19:24:52Z

In "Off the Map", she plays Mina Minard -- one of six doctors who are running away from personal problems by going to work in a tiny clinic in a fictional South American jungle. No family secret to acting, says Streep's daughter 2011-01-10T22:26:01Z

As staged by the director Gordon Edelstein, this disaster is shocking and brings with it, at least temporarily, the kind of frisson that can sometimes occur when fictional characters meet real-world events. Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

But Torrington’s giant red carpet is another matter — it will cross the street, linking the fictional inn with its real-life counterpart. | Torrington: Showing a Horror Film Opposite Its Set, the Yankee Pedlar Inn 2012-02-05T08:13:03Z

But his biggest opponent may not be Hillary Clinton or Martin O’Malley, but a fictional character. Rob Lowe thinks he’s Sam Seaborn: The “West Wing” alum Sorkin-bombing Bernie Sanders is the weirdest celebrity non-endorsement yet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Save for a preface and afterword, the whole book is told through Morse's reviews of hotels on the fictional website RateYourLodging.com. Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

More often than not, however, fictional takes on these crimes end up humanizing the criminal. Ryan Murphy's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" is an example of the brand undermining the mission 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

“And I wish we were sitting here talking about this dystopian fictional world, and how glad we are that we’re not in that, because we have a female president. I wish that were the conversation.” Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale: 'It is a feminist story' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

The Habit of Art was based on a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden. Bennett's People casts lead role 2012-07-30T13:51:31Z

I’m not entirely clear the distinction between real and fictional history on the show, but I’ve always assumed it takes place in a fictional “near future” or a contemporaneous, slightly alternative future. Homeland Watch: Broken Boy Soldier 2012-10-29T12:00:28Z

Going behind the scenes at Waystar Royco – the fictional version of the world's biggest media and entertainment company – has never made for comfortable viewing. "Succession": how true to life is the TV series? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

In other words, are the many white people who have been cheering on the fictional Adonis Johnson Creed as supportive of real-life black men who might come from a similarly difficult past? White “Creed” fans, pay attention: This is not just another feel-good, underdog sports movie 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Jan gave us one fictional example of a female psychopath, a poisoner and murderer who lacks empathy or a conscience. “Only Murders in the Building" goes shockingly dark in the making of a villain 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

In Week 1108 the Empress asked for valentine sentiments to and/or from particular people, real or fictional. Style Invitational: Think SHARP — a neologism contest 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Written and designed by Myers, directed by Schaal and conceived by both of them, “Cartography” presents a group of fictional young migrants. A Show Reminds Young Audiences: We All Got Here From Somewhere 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

And if the final chapters, which are filled with reunions, reconciliations and sudden revelations, seem slightly rushed, that is a small flaw in an otherwise remarkable journey through an utterly compelling fictional world. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The artist reprised a version of his ordeal in his “Reparation Tower, Harlem” installation, which consisted of a mocked-up sales office for a fictional luxury tower in Harlem. Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s an occupational hazard of royalty: becoming the coat hanger on which fictional mantles are hung. An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

His latest fictional feature, “Paterson,” stars Adam Driver as a bus driver who writes poetry — or a poet who drives a bus — in the New Jersey city that shares his and the movie’s name. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The musical’s opera-house setting allowed Lloyd Webber to keep a foot in high culture as the fictional opera company struggles to put on its elephantine productions. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

E! unveiled a trailer for its scripted series, “The Royals,” a soapy drama about a fictional British royal family starring Elizabeth Hurley as a jaded queen. Upfronts 2014: Kim Kardashian, Joan Rivers turn out for NBCU Cable 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The remarkable structure serves as the striking entrance to the Greisinger Museum, the world’s first museum dedicated to Tolkien’s fictional universe, Middle-earth. Down the Hobbit Hole in Switzerland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

A few months ago, another fictional hero was resurrected. What Richard Ford owes to David Chase: How Frank Bascombe turned into Tony Soprano 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Some of the show’s most intriguing items are science fictional. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

My fictional grower, Sullivan Stiles, was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, a devoted father, and a Montana transplant who noticed details like dawn light. The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn't for slackers 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Whether a part is fictional or based on true events, the emphasis is on giving the producer's favorite actors roles they can slay – and sometimes that overpowers the intent of a project. Ryan Murphy's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" is an example of the brand undermining the mission 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Popular entertainment, meant to relieve people of real-life cares by leading them into a fictional world, occasionally grazes against some national trauma. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z

You get the sense that whatever the details of this possibly fictional breakup, and the role the narrator himself played in it, it means a lot to him that someone is living free. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

It's a love story that is possible for all of us – not just fictional white characters in 1980s NYC. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s the perennial discomfort one feels when successful artists create fictional characters with failed lives: there’s always the worry that, on some level, they’re saying, “There but for the grace of God…” Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

But for all the camaraderie and wit, “Parks and Rec” it isn’t — in “Rutherford Falls,” both the show and the fictional northeastern town for which it is named, the stakes are more overtly political. Sierra Teller Ornelas on the Roots of ‘Rutherford Falls’ 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

A plague breaks out on a fictional Mediterranean island during the Ottoman era, exacerbating tensions between its Muslim and Greek Orthodox communities. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The fictional half isn’t particularly sophisticated as space odysseys go. Review: ‘Mars’ Blends Fact and Fiction, but Has a Bumpy Liftoff 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Fortitude,” Amazon Somewhere between “The X-Files” and season 1 of “Fargo” lies “Fortitude,” a murder mystery set in the fictional northernmost town in the world. 8 brilliant shows you haven’t streamed yet, but will this long weekend 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

As Magicman put it on the thread: "It's the unmasking of a fictional character who is, we suspect, David Bowie himself." Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z

It assumes they don’t want to deal with the dissonance of being unsettled, yet fascinated, by the behavior of fictional characters. Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

“If Erdogan faces a struggle right now, it is recast in an Ottoman context, a fictional context. In this way, not the knowledge about today’s struggle, but the feeling of it, is spread through society.” How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Armadillo has many of the hallmarks of fictional war movies. Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z

Addy was a character in the American Girls book series, a collection of stories about fictional girls who lived during significant moments in American history. We were American Girls: What Addy taught me about Black hair, freedom and myself 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

In "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in the classical music world, "Hear the Hair" is a cringe-worthy promotional campaign behind Rodrigo, the new music director of a fictional New York orchestra. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

The movie is the fifth fictional feature by this Brazilian director, whose sensational 2002 debut, “Madame Satã,” was a fictionalized biography of a notorious nightclub performer and criminal in Rio de Janeiro. A Festival Starts With the Sensual 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

This weekend, “SNL” ran a sketch called “Picture Perfect” in which contestants of a fictional gameshow got stumped when asked to draw a picture of the prophet Muhammad. Did “SNL” steal this weekend’s controversial Muhammad sketch? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

On being told that she was included, in fictional form, in “The Prince of Tides,” she requested that Meryl Streep play the part. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

And he would have us believe that these three are introduced to London largely thanks to his fictional creation, Nat Bramble. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z

That is why the two words appeared on the knuckle rings of Radio Raheem, a fictional character killed by police officers at the climax of Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.” Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Instead her books are narrated by different members of Dublin's fictional murder squad. 'I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates' 2012-07-27T09:28:48Z

What It’s About: The filmmakers ask people who once led Indonesian death squads to participate in fictional reenactments of the real mass-killings they perpetrated. How to Watch Every Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary 2013-12-05T13:00:42Z

So I created a fictional post-Kelly chief of staff who looks a lot like Kelly. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Literally translated as "long ago, long ago," these words set the heightened fictional tone of the densely packed, but hilariously sharp stories that are built upon the familiar bones of the Regency author's works. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Hail, Caesar!” is a loving sendup of old Hollywood, a jaunty caper of kidnapping and Communist intrigue set at Capitol Pictures, a fictional studio. The Man Who Would Be Han Solo 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Even though Madonna famously settled the fictional debate by autographing a CD for Quentin Tarantino — "Quentin, it's about love, not d**k" — "Like a Virgin" is only autobiographical for songwriter Billy Steinberg. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Is it different to play someone who actually existed, as opposed to, say, a fictional prince? From 'Game of Thrones' to the D.E.A.: Pedro Pascal on 'Narcos' 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a richly plotted, head-spinning novel about a present-day disappearance, a murder eight years earlier and a fictional murder that may be relevant to both. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The fictional version, simply called the Center, is squat, “like an old bulldog used to guarding its territory,” and when the book opens, it’s in the throes of a hostage crisis. Review | A hostage crisis erupts at an abortion clinic in Jodi Picoult’s ‘A Spark of Light’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

But now the island's link to fictional crime is luring a new wave of British tourists fascinated by the sun-drenched, riddle-strewn world of Inspector Montalbano. An inspector calls: British tourists go on trail of Montalbano 2013-06-07T17:48:51Z

The visions of the old King's Cross railway station in London, or the old boat-train, or Edinburgh with its lonely seaside-cry of seagulls, are all weirdly like a remembered dream of a fictional childhood. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z

Read alongside the journals, her mother’s letters seemed like dispatches from a parallel fictional universe, one where Kathleen Collins never got cancer. Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

And even those fictional havens look to decline, at least in the near term. Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

I liked the idea of a turf war between four or five fictional gangsters of the period. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

Those who have read the Potter novels, or seen the blockbuster film adaptations, should not feel that the carefully appointed logic of Ms. Rowling’s fictional prototype has been violated. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

Though Le Notre was a real person, the character of Sabine is fictional. Alan Rickman happy to bring 'A Little Chaos' into his life 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In another commissioned piece, Compound, the Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich used bamboo and rattan to create a fictional city surrounded by bombs, alluding to his country’s still recent violent history. Art: Definitions of Home at the Singapore Biennale 2011-03-21T15:00:05Z

To round it out for program’s fictional Rose family, Annie Murphy won for best supporting actress in a comedy. Emmys Toast ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ as Stars Stay Home 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

We must read all characters — living and dead, fictional and real — with respect and not diminish them, or allow them to be diminished because of the color of their skin. Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Like the senior Alcott, the fictional Samuel Hood is an essayist and educator. Review | ‘The Illness Lesson’ alludes to ‘Little Women’ but will remind you of darker works 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

It had a unique blend of horror, fictional period drama, real historical figures, fantasy, sci-fi and social commentary. Emmy surprises: ‘Pose,’ ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘Lupin’ 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Richard Dale Trentlage was born Dec. 27, 1928, in Chicago and began penning jingles as a high school student, starting with one about a fictional company he called Modern Plastic Brooms. Richard Trentlage, who wrote ‘I’d love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener,’ dies at 87 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Seriously, guys, Buffyverse fans notice these details and we get cranky about our fictional realities. A New Bible for Obsessive Fans of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

But enough online chatter has focused on the fictional Steve Jobs. Who Should Play Woz to Ashton Kutcher?s Steve Jobs? 2012-04-03T10:45:41Z

It hardly seems an accident that Paul Thomas Anderson has inscribed his monogram in the title of his eighth feature, “Phantom Thread,” which chronicles a few chapters in Reynolds’s fictional life and career. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Other Guy, as her opponent is denoted in the script, presumably represents a fictional Barack Obama. Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

But Kipling didn’t create Sherlock Holmes, the most recognizable and beloved fictional character of modern times. Do we need another book about Sherlock Holmes? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The book's fictional core is the burgeoning relationship between Casement and his prison warder, whose son has died in the trenches. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

The story is about a nerd with multiple sclerosis named Simon Pooni who finds himself with the powers of a fictional hero named Superior. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Teenage Dreams 2012-03-16T19:23:17Z

In one sense I was creating a fictional world, but in another sense I was writing about something so real that happens, sadly, to so many people. Book Talk: Tragedy prompted author to write novel in six weeks 2013-04-11T12:20:59Z

Even the fictional classical scene has taken note: The Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle” filmed an episode about a concert on Rikers Island. Opera in Attica: Bringing Arias to a Maximum-Security Prison 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the fictional US, Underwood’s biggest campaign problems are that unemployment is still running rampant and that gas prices are hovering close to $6 a gallon. House of Cards: a KKK connection isn't all Frank Underwood and Donald Trump share 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Fun facts are delivered like a history lesson until you remember that you’re on a fictional walking tour. In ‘Downtown Stories,’ Theater That Uses New York as Its Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

As James T. Kirk, the fictional captain of the Starship Enterprise, Shatner voiced the opening credits of the original "Star Trek" TV series and several movies since 1966. Capt. Kirk wakes up shuttle crew 2011-03-07T18:22:00Z

Elsie wore a complete set of false teeth and after her demise, Joe gives these teeth as a prop to the female actor playing a fictional version of her in his new play. Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The thing is, even though my previous records were ostensibly fictional, obviously everything that happened in them happened to me at some point in my life. How to save the creative class: “Universal healthcare and no guns, basically” 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Valmont is one of our great fictional seducers and Casanova — if we believe his memoirs — is our great factual one. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z

Leaning against a Ford Galaxie 500, I recalled a conversation with Mr. Simon about the challenges of telling a fictional story that is deeply embedded in fact. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

But you are one of those fictional characters so three-dimensionally rendered that it’s easy for a reader to slip into their expensive shoes and wander through a world more realistic than reality. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Now, in “Hope Never Dies,” a fictional version of an actual former president confronts another pressing national problem, the opioid crisis. The Obama-Biden Bromance Continues. This Time in a Mystery Novel. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Ellmann’s fictional world reminds us, over and over, that, yeah, we get it. Review | Reading ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ is mentally taxing — and physically exhausting 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, Visconti constructed a fictional story, using real people and locations, about the attempted rise and bitter fall of ’Ntoni Valastra and his family. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

She helped create the cinematic world of Wakanda, the fictional homeland of the main character. ‘Black Panther’ makes Oscar history twice for diversity 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Veteran Italian costume designer Milena Canonero won her fourth Oscar, this time for "The Grand Budapest Hotel," a film set between world wars in a fictional Eastern European nation. Oscars 2015: Cinematography, film editing, more 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The historic segments mesh with a parallel plot, a fictional indie film shoot that can seem like ironic commentary on the show’s idealism. No Room Service, but History’s on the Menu 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

These were brief and humorous vignettes of the serious issues faced by Jess and Joyce Semple, a fictional working-class Black couple living in Harlem. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

But it’s also because Daisy understands that her feeling for Gatsby could be as fictional as the imaginary ideal he has tried to embody. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z

I’m not going to diagnose fictional characters with codependency, but in such an otherwise sharp and sensitive novel, I wish I hadn’t even had the thought. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Glazer largely used hidden cameras to shoot unscripted conversations between the Hollywood star and unwitting passersby, in the expectation that real encounters would trump their fictional equivalents every time. Under the radar: the movies that were shot in secret 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s an improbable plot set in a rather tame, domesticated version of Mr. Turow’s fictional Kindle County, a little like the Chicago area. The TV Watch: ?Scott Turow?s Innocent? on TNT 2011-11-28T18:47:35Z

The movie depicts a fictional assassination attempt on North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. Sony's 'The Interview' to get 'freedom edition' home video release 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Belonging to the fictional Black woman whose home we are visiting, it makes the rupture between what was and what was denied to its real life inhabitants more stark and stunning. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

A trio of fictional, volatile rogue techies risk it all to join the marketplace. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z

The fictional African country is depicted as a verdant land with stunning waterfalls where spacecraft designed like tribal masks soar over a modern metropolis. Nigerian cinema fans celebrate 'Black Panther' release 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Some lurk within fictional recreations of scenes based upon Julia Child's life and legend. The joy of HBO Max's Julia Child series, a deliciously affectionate celebration of an icon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The portraits of Chopin and Paganini, particularly, were beautifully executed, as were the movements devoted to Schumann’s fictional antagonists, Florestan and Eusebius. Music Review: Alexander Kobrin at Mannes College Keyboard Festival 2012-07-25T21:45:48Z

I’m going to write, but it will be very different, and it will be very much a fictional novel. Book Talk: Karl Ove Knausgaard on life after his 'Struggle' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

For generations, the Funn family has run the only funeral parlor in Piffling, a fictional island in the British Channel. Fiction Podcasts to Get Lost In 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Slade House” is set in the same fictional universe as “The Bone Clocks,” which was an ambitious 624-page effort to amplify the low-wattage supernatural elements that radiated through Mr. Mitchell’s earlier work. New David Mitchell Novel Coming in October 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The scene, in its depressing similarity to recent news footage from places like Ferguson and Baltimore, conveyed a nervy sense of authenticity to the fictional fall of Los Angeles and also raised some chilling questions. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Saddest Birthday Party Ever 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Now it’s another fictional device that audiences aren’t apt to buy. Social Media Reduce Allure of High School Reunions 2011-12-16T23:08:52Z

Though it took place outside the time frame of the book, Brook's fictional Colonel Morgan was posted there in the run-up to it. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-06-03T07:30:01Z

This fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s scheming aide Thomas Cromwell — the first volume of Mantel’s celebrated trilogy — won the Booker Prize in 2009. What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The show is filmed in mockumentary style, with the fictional characters frequently talking directly into the camera. Modern Family star groped by fan 2014-02-21T08:01:47Z

They are fictional stand-ins for any neighbors you suspect might become a problem if the world suddenly falls to pieces. A cult next door? “The Sinner” and the dark allure of retreating to a “utopian community” 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Takeshi Kata’s mutable set is dominated by a bandstand, and the show begins with a performance by the Cyclos, the fictional group of the title who here perform the Dengue Fever’s music. Review: Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

With a theme tune that was possibly better than the actual show, this late 80s BBC series set in a fictional south coast English town was heavy on yachts and soapy drama. Dominic Savage's love letter to Margate 2012-06-05T18:00:02Z

Speaking alongside former “West Wing” star Bradley Whitford, Sorkin confessed that even his fictional politicians would find this year’s election a little strange. Aaron Sorkin mocks Donald Trump and other candidates as too ridiculous for TV: “This just isn’t believable” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Curbed presents three fictional but brutally honest New York City apartment listings—and the truth is not pretty. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Chesterton’s fictional detective, Father Brown, and converted to Catholicism. Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Once a year on June 16, fans of Ulysses—often decked out in period costume—retrace the fictional Leopold Bloom’s journey through the city. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

In a commentary on this fictional romance, this musical told the story of a pop singer who invents a new stage persona for herself and the songwriter who provides her with material. The ‘Smash’-That-Wasn’t Returns, for 3 Concerts 2013-12-06T17:02:29Z

Silva’s fictional Beadnell shows up early and often, still young and slender, married a few years sooner than in real life. A Fan Letter to Charles Dickens 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Is it now possible to charge fictional characters with crimes? Comic character stands for parliament in David Miliband's old seat 2013-04-21T19:00:11Z

But somewhere beneath the melodrama, I found unexpected catharsis in watching this fictional family grapple with an unthinkable loss that so closely mirrored my own. Perspective | How ‘This Is Us’ helped me process my dad’s death 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

It aims to inspire young people to write a story in 500 words about any fictional topic they choose. Evans in Hay child writer search 2011-02-01T07:15:06Z

Explicit shows like "13 Reasons Why," "Euphoria" and "The Idol" ushered us into the modern-day era of mature and graphic depictions of sex scenes of fictional minors in high school or young adulthood. Gen Z doesn't want explicit shows. So who are all these sexy teen dramas for then? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Instead of offering a tour of classic tracks like Le Mans, the new "Forza" moves the action to the fictional Horizon Festival in Colorado. Review: 'Need for Speed,' 'Forza' hit the gas 2012-12-06T15:01:12Z

And there will always be somebody suffering after the revolution is a fictional space, so it basically says don't enjoy yourself. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

This fictional portrait depicts him as delusional, resentful, and power-mad—and the product of hardscrabble roots. For Filmmakers, Watergate Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

As a rule, we don’t like seeing our favorite fictional characters grow up. Is Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' bound for the 'Interstellar' trap? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Draper's a fictional creation; and it takes me roughly five seconds in his company to establish that Hamm is softer than Draper, more comfortable in his rugged skin, less wary, gentler, much more garrulous. Mad about the man 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Yes, these are fictional characters, but treating their lives so carelessly raises the question of why any of us should care. Here's What Game of Thrones Got Right About the Jon Snow Cliffhanger 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

“This is a fictional West,” he said when the exhibition opened, though it homed in on brutal truths. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

But there are also times when the fictional white nonsense wonderfully exists apart from any specific type of s**t, as we enjoyed in "The Undoing." My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

That’s why we’ve put together the next best thing: a US election comprised solely of fictional presidents from film and TV. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

How else is a biographer to bring that individual – a real individual, not a fictional one – back to literary life on the page? Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The show’s story is this: Mary, a student at the fictional East Lansing University in Michigan, is thrown off the school’s bhangra team because her dance vocabulary is not traditional enough. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The extremist Westboro Baptist Church tweeted at the author, saying they would picket the fictional wedding. See J.K. Rowling's Twitter Spat With Westboro Baptist Church 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

She, too, wanted to dream up rich fictional lives in lieu of what she saw at the time as the burden of prefacing her story with an explanation of her mixed-race identity and upbringing. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

If we accept the simple distinction that factual work asks questions for us, whereas fictional work is more likely to ask questions of us, then why can some work not do both? Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

The soap, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is one of the most popular programs on British television. 'Coronation Street' actor on child sex charges 2013-02-15T11:40:10Z

Most of the bits involved him playing a fictional version of himself — and considering Trump’s entire persona is basically a character, that’s not really much of a stretch. This is What Happened the Last Time Donald Trump Hosted SNL 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

As one famous fictional candy maker has said, quoting a poet, “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Metropolis is the fictional city where Superman lives, but it also is a real town in Illinois. The creators of Batman and Superman have an incredible story to tell 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

But it also harks back to Style Invitational Week 633, when back in 2005 the Empress asked for “secrets” — fictional or non-. Style Invitational Week 1248: Fess up! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

“That’s kind of the joke to me, that Duchess is famous as a fictional person, but I’m not. In any way,” she said during a phone interview. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

I'll give you fair warning, though: By the end of the series, you might be crushed to realize that the characters are all fictional and you won't end up running into them at a bar. Coming out with "Will & Grace" 2011-05-09T20:01:00Z

The death of a child, as an ingredient in a fictional narrative, should be kept on a very high shelf, to be used with the utmost caution. ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,’ by Ned Benson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

But at some point, won’t it be in my grandchild’s best interests for me to explain that belief in a fictional deity is a poor substitute for science and rationality? Grandma, What Do You Mean There’s No God? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

"The Journals of Musan" is shot with a shaky hand-held camera against a blighted background, often circling an empty, unpaved lot near the fictional Chun's apartment, which is slated for demolition. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z

But the real question is whether the art the creators envisioned their character might create is any good — good enough to make feasible his fictional status as a world-famous sculptor and land artist. How good is Dick, anyway? An art scholar evaluates the work of Jill Soloway’s fictional art-throb 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

To avoid being drafted into the Korean War, Marcus attends the fictional Winesburg College in Ohio, where he is housed with two other Jewish students whom he dislikes. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It usually goes something like this: fictional transracial adoptees who grew up overseas return to South Korea for whatever reason the storylines dictate. Don't believe the K-dramas: Look to "Return to Seoul" for a more realistic view on Korean adoptees 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

But Ofcom said it was clear the drama was fictional and Glitter had a well-known history of child sex offences. Gary Glitter complaint dismissed 2011-07-18T15:34:46Z

But I felt like it was time to go, that we had left no stone unturned in his evolution as a fictional character from the imagination of Elmore Leonard. Walton Goggins on the Series Finale of Justified and the Fate of Boyd Crowder 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

It's not that I thought Wilshire was a fictional character – I just wished he was for his employees' sakes. Rewind TV: The Call Centre; The Apprentice; The Americans; Love and Marriage; The Unspeakable Crime: Rape 2013-06-08T17:04:01Z

Episodes have covered making the perfect pitch to a book publisher, the history of the publishing industry, writing in prison and why certain fictional characters have remained culturally significant. Are you listening? 8 Seattle-area podcasters share origins, advice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Worlds” is kind of a homage to all those fictional universes that I loved growing up. Porter Robinson Releases ‘Worlds,’ His First Album 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t get to a fictional version of the story that I felt truthful,” Russo-Young said. Filmmaker revisits case that challenged her and her 2 moms 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Even leaving aside the mystery of her pregnancy, Jones’s life is a reel of dishevelment that is only plausibly charming in an attractive person of a certain class in a remote and fictional setting. Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Splashed across the entire first page of his riveting book, “The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,” is the plaque for the fictional painting that dominates his narrative: Review: ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,’ a riveting tale of art theft 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

In July, he released a new EP, A Day In The Day Of The Days - a musical diary of one fictional day. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

In the series, he even uses his fictional detective Atticus Pünd's name as the inspiration for an anagrammed computer password: "CAT UP NUDIST." Maintaining the "Magpie Murders" main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

These fans would rather remember the story as it ended with the seventh book, rather than meddling with the fictional world years later. The Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Among the submissions were stories from established fictional podcasts like “The Truth.” And the Awards for Best Audio Fiction Go to … 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Out of Print clothing has T-shirts and pendants taken from the book while unofficial T-shirts from Atticus Finch's fictional law firm are available online. 46 times 'To Kill a Mockingbird' echoed through pop culture 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

His first, “We Can Be Heroes,” profiled five nominees for Australian of the Year; “Summer Heights High” followed teachers and students at a fictional school. Television Review: Chris Lilley Stars in ?Angry Boys? on HBO - Review 2011-12-31T00:29:11Z

He may be fictional, but the quality of the burgers is real. 36 Hours in Queenstown, New Zealand 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The TV show left it entirely, setting its stories in a wholly fictional town that somehow seems more real than its actual counterpart, a fully realized setting, as vivid as Grover's Corners or Winesburg, Ohio. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z

In its episodic tale of a man bent on taking his wife and two children to Southern California's fictional Walley World come hell or dead relatives, the original "Vacation" served as a cinematic mirror. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Wisely, Anshaw keeps the national politics mostly offstage, alluding to them just enough to lend a sense of proportion — not so much counterpoint as compass rose — to the fictional events she maps. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

That's the part that really makes racists angry – especially when the role in question is attached to a fictional figure people wish they could be or wish they could be with. Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role isn't about canon but excellence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

There are suggestions that it is entirely fictional, or that Rawicz appropriated and conflated other people's apocryphal tales. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z

I was interested in developing fictional stories and place them over a real background, with the reference to the socioeconomic changes in those 10 years. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar Festival: 5 Questions About 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' 2012-01-13T21:51:36Z

The world in which it would happen is a fictional one that demands explanation. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

And later this year, look for two more Dominguita books, which were inspired by “The Three Musketeers” and the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Classic adventure stories inspire new Definitely Dominguita series 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

The "I" in it could be a fictional "I." Q&A with Ann Powers on 'Best Music Writing 2010' 2010-12-23T20:15:10Z

In the genteel world of TV costume , any tensions are usually scripted – and fictional. War declared as Upstairs, Downstairs creator fires volley at Downton Abbey 2010-12-16T19:48:42Z

Ms. Dunham’s fictional cohort is more ordinary and middle class, but that generation’s sense of entitlement — and pass/fail work ethic — is still gently mocked. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

When they discussed a fictional sexual technique – the “Venus Butterfly” – NBC was flooded with requests for more information. How Rosalind’s fatal lift plummet marked the death of LA Law 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Like many works of counterfactual history, this nightmarish fictional world provokes a sense of relief mixed with horror: it didn’t happen here, but it all too easily could have. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Was Lydia Grant, the dance teacher Debbie Allen played in both the film and television versions of “Fame,” really a fictional character? Debbie Allen’s Technique? It’s All About Tough Love 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Sarah’s story grips you like a horror movie, complete with certain fictional contrivances. | Sarah?s Key': The Horror of Yesterday and the Everyday of Today 2011-07-21T21:37:34Z

The fictional United States presidencies of shows like “Scandal” and “Designated Survivor” are nothing if not eventful. Review: In ‘Ingobernable,’ a Mexican Presidency in Turmoil 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Australian Naomi Watts is due to play Monroe in the Hollywood movie "Blonde" based on U.S. writer Joyce Carol Oates' 2000 fictional biography of the star. Michelle Williams to play Marilyn Monroe in movie 2010-10-08T18:23:00Z

They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z

Those fictional series set the standard precisely because they’re free to follow not documentary truth, but the truth of their dark, satirical or outlandish visions. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

No wonder Cookie, a precocious but improbably innocent girl who brings to mind centuries of fictional portraits of burgeoning artists, wants to grow up to be a rapper. Theater Review: ?Hurt Village,? by Katori Hall 2012-02-28T03:00:00Z

But in these fanciful sweets we may discover something that will not just sustain us or tantalize our taste buds but also grant us entry into a fictional world. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

When singer Katy Perry met one on a TV show last year she exclaimed: “Oh my God! I thought it was a fictional animal.” Meet your tour guide to Australia, the wombat 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Novelist Paul Murray selects the best of the worst fictional clergymen Tweet this Paul Murray guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 March 2010 15.38 GMT larger | smaller The ultimate evil cleric? Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z

"It's not a music concert film or a rock biography. Nick is staging real behaviour in fictional spaces, and this creates something new." Nick Cave becomes reluctant film star 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Weinstein claimed that the movie was a fictional comedy and, even if it was about the duo, it was a biographical work about public figures, protected by the First Amendment governing free speech. Studio loses key ruling in battle with soul icon 2010-05-18T01:17:00Z

Some TV footage at the very beginning alludes to the riots, and a melodramatic moment at the end may be a fictional transformation of one famous news photo. Ill Manors 2012-06-07T14:30:01Z

The show is set in the meeting rooms, bars and bedrooms of a hotel where the fictional American Conference for Letters and Culture is convening to deliver papers and bestow awards and grants. Review: In ‘Relevance,’ a Titan of Feminism Confronts a New Generation 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

That said, the move was also met by a outpouring of sometimes toxic, often ill-informed criticism by those who could not — for whatever reason — accept the idea of a woman playing the fictional character. Murdoch-owned paper publishes nude photos of new female Doctor Who 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Dana Sue's Killer Guacamole, Helen's Lethal Margaritas and Sullivan's Crab Cakes are among the fictional staples made real by chef Teddi Wohlford, who takes a gourmet approach to Southern classics. "Sweet Magnolias" cookbook takes favorites from fiction to fact 2012-10-02T08:14:40Z

Setting the story around the saga of Bernard Madoff, the writers created a fictional counterpart to him and his brand of debased profiteering. Year in Culture: Machinations, Criminal And/or Familial 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

Two events, one real and one fictional, dominate the novel. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor

Oates, at least, is there for these fictional children. Joyce Carol Oates tackles abortion in her powerful novel, 'A Book of American Martyrs' 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Living under Romania’s Communist regime, Calinescu wrote this book for his own amusement, a fictional account of a man who spoke his mind. New & Noteworthy 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in the world of a fictional symphony orchestra, has officially been picked up for a second season, the online company announced Wednesday. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

It continually teased about what might be intentional, what might be a mistake, fictional or real. Dance Review: ‘A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic’ at Dance New Amsterdam 2012-09-13T22:36:30Z

Not since Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” film trilogy can I remember being so invested in the fate of a fictional couple. Perspective | Best TV of 2020: ‘I May Destroy You,’ ‘Normal People,’ the Democratic convention and more 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

A few of the subjects are well known, but many seem to be mythic or fictional. Review | In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

That’s the difference between Hamill and other actors seen by the public as a fictional persona they played decades ago – or worse, those performers who resent that double-edged sword. Use your voice, Luke: How Mark Hamill's anti-Jedi mind tricks gave him career longevity 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

Unlike “Wonder” and “The Hundred Dresses,” “Sticks and Stones” tells the stories of real people who were bullied, rather than fictional characters. Books explore the causes and consequences of bullying

Though its details are fictional, this chronicle is impressively nuanced in its rendering of Lebanese politics and society in the 1970s and ’80s. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z

Birdman represents not just Keaton’s fictional apologia but also his defiant, nearly heroic comeback. Birdman at Venice: Can an Ex-Superhero Still Fly? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

They return to their homes in the fictional town of Wirrawee to find pets starved, power lines cut and -- horror of horrors! -- no cell-phone service. Aussie teen war drama set to explode worldwide 2010-09-07T01:49:00Z

Through cameras in laptops and televisions, players can peer into someone’s fictional files and bedroom, to wholly envelop the lives of others. Delay Tests Video Game Developer 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Together, the two volumes – something like a combined 1,300 pages — make up one fictional history of over 40 years of the War on Drugs. “The Cartel” author Don Winslow on the war on drugs: “There is an exit strategy — legalize drugs, and treat them as the social problem that they are” 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Awareness of such events can creep into the fictional world and pollute the filmgoers’ experience. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The Sophisticated Rogue A tortured writer battles the fictional characters he's created in William Norrett's holiday comedy; for ages 13 and up. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

And while some might dismiss grief for a fictional character, Manzella said what Grey’s fans are likely feeling is something called disenfranchised grief. Grief Counselor Says It's OK to Mourn a Fictional Character's Death 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Picasso called art the lie that tells the truth, and in an era in which facts are shamelessly manipulated by politicians, fictional journeys can help develop within us an understanding that truth is an inquiry. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Just look on a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream, where you'll find the signature of a fictional pair: R & A Bailey. Behind The Booze Brands 2010-06-25T16:30:00Z

Which fictional character do you think you could fall in love with? Drawing lines: Q&A with Dinosaur Cove illustrator Mike Spoor 2013-02-15T12:12:10Z

Her voice was so conversational, so direct and funny and true; her fictional friends were like the friends I had, loyal and exasperating and there for you through thick or thin. Marvin Gaye, the Venona Project and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Home base here is the fictional world of Rosewood, Pa., where the hedges are high, and the legs are long, and the malls don’t bother with Forever 21. | 'Pretty Little Liars': A New ABC Family Series From Sara Shepard?s Books 2010-06-07T21:44:00Z

Federal officials have linked the cyberattack to North Korea, angered over the film's fictional assassination of leader Kim Jong Un, but authorities have said the terror threats were not credible. VOD success of 'Interview' could make online film releases more common 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Here producers pored over a map of a fictional farm and its environs that will be the epicenter for the latest adventures of a group of survivors in an American South overrun by cannibalistic ghouls. Arts & Leisure: ?The Walking Dead? Returns for Much-Anticipated Season 2 2011-10-06T12:11:43Z

The album’s success has led to some calls in the industry for the fictional band to go on tour, as the “Glee” cast has done. ArtsBeat: "Glee" and Disney Rule Pop Charts 2011-04-27T20:49:25Z

He presides over a kingdom called Wakanda, which is a fictional African kingdom. Marvel's Editor on What You Need to Know About Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

I looked up to her, in that fictional, far-off sense. "Glee's" mysteriously shrinking Rachel 2010-10-08T17:30:00Z

Somehow, this stroke of the fictional brush makes an already incredible story even more compelling. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z

It’s a palpably electric sequence, which would be the core of any fictional drama. Poitras, who earned Snowden’s trust, reaches biggest audience with ‘Citizenfour’

“Beasts” is the first fictional feature to be released by Netflix, having debuted Oct. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

And then there are those fictional books based on real history, whether allegory or reimagining: something like Libra by Don DeLillo or George Orwell's classic Animal Farm rock my socks any time. How facts spoil history books 2011-07-21T11:30:35Z

To many, Musk is akin to a fictional character, one who lives on Twitter. Tesla owners love their cars. Elon Musk? Not as much. 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

When she found the snitch, she was pumped up to play some Quidditch, a fictional sport invented by the author J.K. Quarantined and Engaged: They Said ‘Yes!’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

"At the End of the Santa Fe Trail" aims to be a fictional account based on Segale's life and largely will use material from her 1932 book with the same name. Nun who stood up to Billy the Kid to be subject of TV series 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

A young woman with a past of hardship and suffering makes a new start in Robinson’s fictional town of Gilead, Iowa. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Perhaps its historical setting in 1860 and its fictional basis let it through. Schedule changing 2010-06-09T07:00:00Z

Though the books are fictional, many of the wild encounters the characters have are based on Steve's real experiences. Steve Backshall: 'The big predators would run down Usain Bolt without even thinking about it. Your only chance is to stand your ground' 2013-07-17T11:36:16Z

The album’s snappiest song, “Wristband,” starts as a fictional anecdote and turns into a larger metaphor for privilege. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Some of the show's characters are fictional, but many are based on real gangsters and politicians from the Prohibition era, the most recognizable being Al Capone. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z

One of the many strange things about this film is that Alice and Ken, who are fictional siblings portrayed by real ones, never say where they’re from. ‘Brush with Danger’: Siblings use skills to survive in Seattle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He combines these stories with those of unknowns, fictional men of no special importance, some of whose tales are moving. Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

There was the March release of her new record Bell Choir Coast, which Wayser describes as a catchy concept album of sorts, involving a fictional universe and the manipulated soundscapes to match. Music Video Exclusive: Sydney Wayser?s ?Potions? ? and the Songs of Summer Are Here 2012-05-14T10:45:33Z

Consider the trailer and the omniscient, disembodied voice that introduces moviegoers to a fictional world. Trailer Voice-Over Work Scarce for Women 2012-01-28T06:15:44Z

On the first days of "The Morning Show" – totally fictional, of course – you never hear the word "Trump." CNN’s Brian Stelter reflects on “The View” venom and leaving Trump out of “The Morning Show” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

In it, she chronicled a fictional day in the life in the Old West, imagining herself burning rhubarb cobbler, churning butter and guiding her kids through a grand "5 minutes of homeschool." Virginia woman wows Facebook with 'Target Dress Challenge' likening pandemic to prairie life 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Girl From the North Country” This musical combines the songs of Bob Dylan with a fictional story about a crowded boardinghouse during the Great Depression in the Minnesota city where Dylan was born. The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Discovery's show, which was not scheduled to air in the United States, was an unofficial, fictional account of what the autopsy must have been like and its results. Discovery cancels Michael Jackson autopsy TV show 2010-12-31T18:05:30Z

These fictional folks are rendered with near-documentary realism and just a hint of impressionist license. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Emmy-winning show created by comedienne Fey about the day-to-day life of fictional sketch comedy show will air its final episode on January 31 after seven seasons. Nancy Pelosi gets gig on '30 Rock' TV finale 2013-01-04T19:30:13Z

Do you write about yourself or do you create fictional characters? BBC Sound Of 2015: George The Poet 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

He gave it form in a sculpture of a fictional goddess he named Oviri — derived from a Tahitian word for savage — and wanted the sculpture placed on his grave. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z

Then again, maybe she was rehearsing her adorable, signature DeGeneres comedy act-as-acceptance speech in which she thanked her non-existent husband/beard Mark and told her fictional children to go to bed. Why the Golden Globes and host Ricky Gervais felt particularly pointless 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

He inspired the fictional character Buzz Lightyear of the “Toy Story” movies and was interviewed by Homer Simpson on “The Simpsons.” In a new book, Buzz Aldrin talks about living in Neil Armstrong’s shadow 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Dora is still a fictional character, of course, and the screenwriters took creative liberties. Dora the Explorer and the Quest for Authentic Indigenous Representations 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Is it a neurotic tic, a hangover from Princess Diana’s death, itself a rerun of Grace Archer’s fictional death in 1955, weirdly greeted by floral tributes delivered to BBC Broadcasting House? 'I never knew how much I'd write crying': Peter Bradshaw on film star deaths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Without the book, we wouldn't have the episode, which means we wouldn't have the best last line in any fictional work, ever. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z

But a delightfully zany and touching novel, "The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise," by the British writer Julia Stuart, has jumped the queue to take readers on a fictional romp through the Tower's realm. 'The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise': a Monty Python-esque tale of life in the Tower of London 2010-09-01T22:47:00Z

Her new novel, Untold Stories, depicts the ups and downs of a fictional princess whose life trajectory bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Diana. Diana, Princess of Wales inspires Monica Ali's latest novel 2011-01-05T20:48:55Z

When actual violence horrifies us, people notice the fictional violence that horrifies them and decide there must be a causal connection, QED. What We Should Be Thinking About Pop-Culture Violence, and What We Will Probably Do Instead 2012-12-20T13:00:20Z

The show is centered on the fictional Braverman clan and loosely adapted from the 1980s Ron Howard movie of the same name, and chances are high that you have not seen it. Riff: Why Is That Nice Girl From ?Friday Night Lights? Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? 2012-03-09T19:22:00Z

As such, many of the characters in the world are fictional. 'Manhattan' creators stress WGN America drama isn't a series of facts 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Alas, not even exposure can always crush an insidious fictional narrative. Review | Sherlock Holmes can never die. New books about the great sleuth are making sure of it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

As readers of the best-seller will remember, the book offered a riveting fictional version of the life of the egocentric architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the woman who sacrificed everything to be with him. ‘Under the Wide and Starry Sky’: R.L. Stevenson’s muse 2014-01-15T22:17:21Z

And while Ms. Lampanelli has written four very different kinds of women, the three who are fictional come across as types rather than characters. Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“The Art of Making It,” a documentary by Kelcey Edwards, doesn’t entirely depart from those pessimistic fictional portraits. ‘The Art of Making It’ Review: Seeking a Bigger Canvas 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Around the corner, a life-size board game, “Up the Down Escalator,” was dotted with fictional gift cards, coin of the online-shopping realm. When Department Stores Were Theater 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

As he creates it, the Hotel Metropol is transfixing, full of colorful characters: some transitory, others permanent; mostly fictional, some historical. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Commentators have also questioned the movie’s decisions to make Tubman’s chief antagonist a black bounty hunter, and to have her white slave-master intervene at a critical moment, like a “white saviour” – both fictional embellishments. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Plus, the characters in the middle are new Avengers characters Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver, which leads me to believe that this scene is set in the fictional eastern European country of Transia. Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer review – Tony Stark raving bananas 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In the first study, intended to measure a person’s short-term emotional reaction to gossiping, 140 men and women, primarily undergraduates, were asked to talk about a fictional person either positively or negatively. Studied: Is Gossip Good for You? 2010-10-08T21:03:00Z

A novel that unpacks a supposedly troubled period in Picasso’s life, “Cooking for Picasso” describes the fictional relationship and mutual inspiration between a young cook and the artist in the South of France in 1936. Looking at Picasso Through a Cook’s Eyes 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

There is something irresistible — and also something questionable — about the artistic impulse to filter fictional accounts of real-world horror through the eyes of children. ‘The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier),’ From Janos Szasz 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

This was a fictional character, and I got to walk away from it unscathed. Sophie Turner: I Want Sansa to Have ‘More Kills’ on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Fans have been waiting a long time to visit Wakanda, the wondrous Afrofuturistic homeland of Black Panther, but this is not the first time Hollywood will have taken us to a fictional African kingdom. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

But the relationship between Rupert and his children is even stranger than that of their fictional counterparts because, by all accounts, he does seem to care about them. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The directors know that their audience — even the youngest — understand that they are watching a fictional universe that's ultimately aimed at selling them a product. '22 Jump Street': Phil Lord, Chris Miller are a fresh brand in comedy 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But the book contains both “explicitly autobiographical” and wholly fictional material, he said, an advantage of the novel form, which, as he puts it, is “capacious enough to hold the real and unreal.” 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be the first fictional TV show to create a political firestorm ... The 10 most politically controversial TV shows of all time 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The 25 fictional portraits on view give few clues. T Magazine: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Fashionable Eye 2010-11-15T19:34:00Z

It will focus on the early life of Chlorr of the Mask, an evil necromancer and one of the Greater Dead in the fictional universe. Garth Nix gives Edinburgh audience sneak preview of Old Kingdom prequel 2012-08-19T16:19:36Z

The story is set at the fictional Ivy League-ish school Winchester University — Calum Marsh in the Village Voice called it "a satire about racism among those least inclined to regard themselves as racist." With 'Dear White People,' Justin Simien wants to start conversations 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The many lurid stories in her book are true, says Edwards-Jones, but they are shoe-horned into 24 hours in the life of one fictional restaurateur, giving a "hyperbolic view of everything". Warning: chefs behaving properly 2013-07-18T06:00:11Z

If the title — the author’s fictional Maine stomping ground — is not clue enough, the opening titles feature close-ups of pages from “Salem’s Lot,” “The Green Mile” and “The Shining.” Review: ‘Castle Rock’ Is Too Haunted by Its Past 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Spreading like an umbrella over both stories are letters from Eliza’s father, relating the true history from 1840s Texas to Eliza in the 2140s, until the “real” and the “fictional” merge. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Borgen,” the cult hit about a female prime minister of Denmark, puts a fictional spin on women in power. What’s on TV Monday 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

We’re not convinced that fictional White House staffers, having just watched the Capitol explode, would be comfortable hanging around the West Wing, but it makes for good television. The truth behind the ‘designated survivor,’ the president of the post-apocalypse 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The fair is a fictional setting,” Alemani says of the installation. | At Frieze New York, Mixing Pleasure with Business 2014-05-07T22:02:57Z

And as transients, the fictional mag crew members themselves have no place in society. ‘American Honey’: Open Highways, Free Spirits 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Quickly, Ms. Schaeffer broadened her scope, deepened her sympathies and staked out more ambitious fictional ground. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Novelist, Dies at 71 2011-08-31T04:27:07Z

You're staying busy in other ways in the meantime, producing the new CBS drama "Madam Secretary," about a fictional secretary of State. Morgan Freeman, the voice of gravitas, is wise to his image 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

In subsequent versions, additional tweaks saw the villains change from a group of Americans to citizens of the fictional country of Sao Rico. Race row 2010-04-28T15:14:00Z

In my version of this story — the fictional version — Sam and Michael will run into each other in a few weeks. We sent the wrong bachelor on this date. Was he Mr. Right after all? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Lauren Rice uses construction materials such as wood, foam, plaster and copper pipe to make objects from a fictional archaeological excavation site. In the galleries: Deeply in the present but beholden to the past 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Only in studying a fictional apocalypse on TV was she able to emerge from a deadly confrontation alive and victorious, and provide a stupendous made-for-TV ending. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Of course there are, as well as the fictional histories of periods like the Victorian era, there are also enormous quantities of stories written about the future. Alan Moore conjures up an extraordinary antichrist: Harry Potter 2012-06-18T13:14:32Z

The line-up included documentaries and fictional pieces on women's issues from Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia and Mexico. Gaza film-makers decry Hamas censorship 2011-07-28T08:46:56Z

Before setting off alone from his Baltimore home on May 14, Mr. Waters said, he wrote preliminary chapters for his book, describing the very best and the very worst fictional hitchhiking experiences he could imagine. ArtsBeat: John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey 2012-05-25T13:29:55Z

"I am sorry that this tasteless joke about a fictional character offended anyone," Renner said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans apologize for slut-shaming Black Widow character 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

How they and their families interact provides a fictional background which combines impeccably researched and accurate detail of everything Roman from toilets to writing tablets while also feeling remarkably like family/community life anywhere. Roman stories required 2012-10-02T15:16:13Z

It’s a gimmick used throughout the documentary, perhaps too much — the idea that scenes from fictional movies somehow tell the life story of the actor in them stretches only so far. Review: In ‘Becoming Cary Grant,’ the Turmoil Beneath the Suave 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I mean, take 20 seconds to think of a celebrity pairing – real or fictional, past or present – where the woman is more beautiful than the man. ‘Do they really think I'm his mother?’: life with a younger, hotter boyfriend 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

On the wall opposite the mini-theater is a row of texts offering fictional viewer responses. Laure Prouvost, an Artist of Theories and Influences 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Kwon in “The Incendiaries,” Englehardt finds ample material on a fictional campus, this time in Arkansas at Ozarka University, driving distance from rural communities where four-wheelers flatten the blackberries between diaper middens. Review | In the story of a mass shooting, ‘Bloomland’ reveals the bloody tapestry of a beleaguered nation 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Set on a fictional South Sea island, Thomas' unaired drama tells of a romance between a British trader and an island girl. Thomas script to get Radio 3 premiere 2014-01-29T13:50:25Z

Who is your favorite fictional hero, or heroine? Hanan al-Shaykh: By the Book 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

He turned the real six towns into a fictional five, which still rankles. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Disguised as an HBO sports documentary, this is the fictional account of the world’s longest tennis match, which took place in the summer of 2001 and lasted for seven straight days. 7 Days in Hell: HBO's tennis mockumentary is a grand slam 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Together those statements might stand as a précis of the vivid and improbable real career that took shape after the fictional events depicted in this film. | 'The Rum Diary': Hunter S. Thompson?s ?Rum Diary,? With Johnny Depp - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:08Z

What prompted you to shift gears away from documentary and create a fictional story as well as shift from working with Maíra to directing solo? Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Set in New York in the 1970s, it will the story of a fictional record label called American Century records, exploring the drug- and sex-fuelled music business when the punk and disco scenes were emerging. Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger team up for record label drama 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The author agreed utopias were "boring", and that the Culture was a useful fictional device because it kept engaging with worlds where fear and appetite might prevail. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-10T21:55:06Z

The deaths are real, but the composition gives them an unsettling fictional feel. The Long Collusion of Photography and Crime 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

I think it is a fictional portrait masquerading as nonfiction, about an Africa that he wanted to see rather than one he actually saw. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Jerusalem's Lot is the main character here, a warm-up for what King would later do with his beloved fictional towns of Derry and Castle Rock. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z

The fictional title character, a cartoonist himself, is a deft framing device for viewing Singapore’s culture and history through many crisp prisms. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The authors decline to consider either, dismissing them as fictional stereotypes of coastal elites. Why Trump Voters Supported Trump 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

This week: Write something about a well-known person, real or fictional, using only the letters in that person’s name, as in the inking examples above. Style Invitational Week 1370: What’s in a name? 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

It's like a Wailing Wall for amorous pilgrims who forget that Shakespeare's fictional lovers were doomed to tragedy. 'Letters to Juliet': Lovely leading ladies and one miscast Romeo 2010-05-14T00:01:00Z

His hero, an archer named Thomas of Hookton who gets caught up in the Hundred Years’ War, is an entirely fictional commoner in search of that fabled relic. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z

What fictional character would you most like to be? Quickfire interview: Patrick Ness 2012-08-20T15:43:57Z

Does that ever bother him, that his life will forever be manacled to a fictional killer’s? Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

All but one of Flynn's 14 novels center on fictional character Mitch Rapp, an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency who targets Islamic militants and often takes extreme measures to achieve his goals. Vince Flynn, author of Mitch Rapp thriller series, dead from cancer 2013-06-19T18:30:42Z

If there were a pageant for fictional women who represent the worst of America in 2020, Christina would be a top contender for the title of America's Next Top Karen. "Lovecraft Country" sorceress is America's Next Top Karen, joining TV's other ultimate Karens 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Prince Albert and his sisters, Princess Stephanie and Princess Caroline, issued a statement saying the film about their mother - the former Grace Kelly - contained major historical inaccuracies and "purely fictional scenes." Monaco royals miffed over Grace film 2013-01-17T18:58:09Z

His fictional universe, like the universe small children occupy, is a morally ambiguous one. Children's book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Not “Stephen Colbert,” the greatest fake newsman in TV history, and one of the richest fictional characters in any popular art form of the past decade. Stephen Colbert: A Great Talk-Show Host? No, the Greatest! 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The aria will be a fleeting — but important — moment in the new season of “Mozart in the Jungle,” which combines screwball comedy and magical realism to tell the story of a fictional New York orchestra. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

This show is a limited series that's a heightened, fictional take on aspects of his life coming up as a comic and becoming the huge, massive star that he is. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Another inspiration was the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company — yes, an actual establishment! — for which the musical’s plot supplies an elaborate fictional back story. Review: ‘Brooklynite,’ a Superhero Musical with Matt Doyle and Nicolette Robinson 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

We know Conley’s story has a happy ending; the fragile fictional teens of Akhavan’s film are brought to a less certain brink of escape and self-realisation, though it cautiously points to a brighter, freer future. How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The problem with this kind of wishful thinking is that it relies on the writers’ collective ability to create the fictional audience. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the pushback against 'PC culture' 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Said Hank Hill, fictional Texas propane salesman, in 1997: “Look, some people hoist a flag to show they love our country. Well, my lawn is my flag.” There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

And the fact that the fictional director denounces the current preoccupation with 'child abuse' adds another twinge of fascination. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z

Ali Benjamin’s “quiet nowhere” is Starkfield, Mass., a fictional town in the Berkshires boasting “a nondescript village green, around which are scattered a handful of small businesses, no more than one of every variety.” Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Even after just one episode, a few things are clear about “Preacher,” AMC’s new show set in a fictional Texas town. “Preacher”’s gleeful gore: AMC’s new comic adaptation is handsome, funny — and really, really violent 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Some fictional predecessors appear in a display of “shilling shockers and penny dreadfuls.” Exhibition Review: A Sherlock Holmes Exhibition Stops in Ohio 2014-02-14T23:25:09Z

Lee used Monroeville as the model for fictional Maycomb, Alabama, in her landmark book about racial injustice in the Jim Crow South. ‘Mockingbird’ author compared hometown to Elvis’ Graceland 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Even fictional stormtroopers and witches not even written as white are controversial for actors of color. Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson shows race problems before Oscars row 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As the book opens, a family of a half-dozen bonobos is happily ensconced at the fictional Great Ape Language Lab at the University of Kansas. 'Ape House': Sara Gruen's story of apes, humans and other complex characters 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z

Enter Lupone’s fictional husband, a professor at CUNY, which in normal life is just a fine job, but here on “Girls” qualifies as a dud. ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Recap: Hannah’s Envy and Thwarted Ambition 2014-03-17T04:19:36Z

And so it goes in her fictional world as well. 'Veep' Season 4 Premiere Recap: She's Bebop Speaking 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

For one thing the detectives of the fictional 12th Precinct were authentic shoe-leather types. ?Barney Miller? Remains on the Beat in a Complete DVD Set 2011-10-29T04:00:09Z

In the opening flashback scene, set immediately before the events of the first season, Elliot and Darlene celebrate an impromptu family reunion by watching a fictional slasher film called “The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie.” ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 4: The Man in the Mask 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Inside was Hemingway’s first known short story, about a fictional trip to Ireland written when he was 10 years old. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

The action figure is a joke, of course, but he's also a small tribute to the fictional character of Picard, her favorite on the show. The greatest Star Trek 'Generation' reunites 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her coffee-brown portraits of fictional people register best as groups, like an arrangement of family portraits. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The free site opens for registration on July 31, the fictional Harry Potter's birthday. "Deathly Hallows" not the end for true Potter fans 2011-07-05T13:24:51Z

“The First Amendment protects the creator’s artistic license to include the line in the fictional series,” lawyers for Netflix wrote in their motion to dismiss the lawsuit. A Chess Champion Resolves Her ‘Queens Gambit’ Lawsuit Against Netflix 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Trek, at heart, is all about self-determination and self-actualization, and as a fictional engine, that’s something that only really works if the good guys succeed, and keep succeeding. Is Star Trek Into Darkness Too Dark? 2013-05-17T22:17:31Z

The film's trailer received online backlash last month for featuring the fictional character as the main instigator of the riots though most accepted accounts attribute that role to drag queens and transgender women of color. 'Hit the Wall' returns to the spark of the LGBT rights movement 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

It became the fictional home to the Kinnesons, familiar characters in his novels and stories, whom Mr. Mosher based on his own family. Howard Frank Mosher, Whose Novels Evoked Hardscrabble Vermont, Dies at 74 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

When the state appointed him president in June and dispatched him on this emergency mission, French headlines hailed Mr. Le Bon in the name of that fictional masked outlaw who battled tyrannical officials. Picasso Museum to Reopen at Last, With New Leader 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The show features Mr. Grammer as the fictional mayor of Chicago, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder that is causing his world to slowly collapse. ArtsBeat Blog: Starz Gives 'Boss' Second Season Even Before the Series Premiere 2011-09-28T19:00:59Z

The “small town” in question is Aghybogey, a fictional village in Northern Ireland soggy with hopelessness. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Set in a fictional fief somewhere in medieval Europe, Moshfegh’s fifth novel follows a disfigured village boy who manages, through a grotesque and amoral sequence of events, to become the lord’s son and heir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

An additional wrinkle: the fictional world seems to be leaking into the real world. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers and the Return of 'The Unwritten' 2012-01-13T18:40:28Z

In director Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed she plays Darius Britt, a forlorn intern at the fictional Seattle Magazine who gets roped into a journalistic investigation of an intriguing want ad seeking a traveling companion. Safety Not Guaranteed But Satisfaction Highly Likely 2012-06-07T17:00:27Z

Other, still-active bands used appearances at the Bait Shop, a fictional Newport Beach club the characters frequented, to publicize their music. How teen drama ‘The O.C.’ launched indie bands into musical stardom 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

This is work as it is imagined in When the Whistle Blows, the cheesy fictional sitcom in Gervais's TV series Extras – but enlarged to glossy, emotionally supercharged feature length. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

Some 19th-century writers adapted fictional fashions to suit their own and their readers' tastes. Bridgerton: in defense of "inaccurate" costumes in period dramas 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

There is a separate but related tradition of actor-dramatists who have portrayed on stage fictional characters they have written. Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z

And there was plenty of blood gushing on the set, where the show’s star, Clive Owen, and the rest of the fictional Knick’s surgical staff carried out meticulously recreated vintage procedures. Modern Medicine, Circa 1900, in Soderbergh’s ‘The Knick’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Inspired by struggles that are personal, historical or fictional, four shows now at VisArts are labors of excavation. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

The crime video game focuses on character Lincoln Clay's revenge against the Italian mafia in 1968 in the city of New Bordeaux, a fictional recreation of New Orleans. Ice Cube creates original song for 'Mafia III' video game 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The characters were so strong that I had some difficulty separating the real names from the fictional. James Gandolfini, remembered by Mike Figgis 2013-06-20T12:41:54Z

The Office star has joined the cast for one season to play Billy Flynn, a marine mammal who moves into the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. Ricky Gervais to play dolphin in Family Guy 2011-08-05T09:33:02Z

“As you can imagine, I’m inspired by her work,” she said, of Sherman’s fictional self-portraits. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Her fictional project seems, in fact, to be about how we might look and then look again at ordinary life. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

That became almost the default way of picturing the event: as something that was prefigured, almost overdetermined, by the fictional destruction of New York buildings in movies like “Independence Day.” This Week in Fiction: Jess Row 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

This self-anointed era has been an exceedingly tough time for our shared fictional human families. 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Playing the grandma of fictional Hollywood action star "MacGruber," she chided him about his manhood and breast reduction surgery. Betty White gives Mother's Day gift to "SNL" 2010-05-09T18:14:00Z

He’s also insanely strong, quite possibly stronger than the fictional Mountain himself, though by all accounts a far, far nicer person than the elder Clegane. 'Game Of Thrones' Actor Breaks Thousand-Year-Old Strength Record 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s partly set in 1955 in a fictional Southwest town, a lonely four corners with a diner, gas station and motor inn. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

At his professional peak, he likes to say, he had five or six fictional families on television, and one flesh-and-blood one on Mooncrest Drive in the Encino section of Los Angeles. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Conservatives aren’t wrong when they gripe that Hollywood seems creatively disabled when it comes to delivering a fictional Republican president to whom viewers can relate. TV presidents can do anything, except declare themselves as good Republicans 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

As we learn from the sleekly produced exposition — fictional clips from “Entertainment Tonight”-style TV programming — Dee is a former champ. In 'The Wholehearted,' a female boxer looks for redemption out of the ring 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

One of the important functions of the type of film that thrives at festivals — documentary or fictional — is to bring news of the world’s problems into an exclusive, corporate-funded cultural space. We Watched Fall Film Festivals From Home. Here’s How It Went. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

This will be the festival premiere of her “Out / Side of Time,” a short about a fictional Black family in the 19th-century community of Seneca Village in New York City. At the BlackStar Film Festival, a Revelatory Understanding of Cinema 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Has there ever been a more durable, more adaptable fictional character than Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated Sherlock Holmes? 'Mr. Holmes' smartly examines the great detective in winter 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

By the late 1980s there had been a glut of Mary Sues fictionally beaming themselves up on to the Starship Enterprise, and true fans started to view the sub-genre plots as insidious. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

In fact, Cleary's Ramona doesn't just challenge the assumption that readers must learn "from" and "with" fictional characters; one of Ramona's distinguishing characteristics is rebelliousness. Cleary refused to teach kids how to be good — and generations of readers fell in love with Ramona 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

They include 1920's "Daughter of Dawn," which featured an all-Native-American cast of Comanche and Kiowa people, with a fictional love story and a record of Native American traditions of the time. 'Mary Poppins' among 25 U.S. films to be preserved 2013-12-18T14:01:43Z

We only have a handful of fictional characters who can buy the farm in the series finale. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Casualties of War 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

A young filmmaker named Haskell Wexler, making a fictional feature called “Medium Cool,” captured some of the violence as it happened. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

There is a place for movies and documentaries that show religion as part of history and life but not in fictional accounts. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The impulse to look to stage plagues is understandable: Finding a fictional sibling to real calamity gives ours the hue of a fable, with a clear meaning and villain, and thus means to a cure. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The notion of elves as intermediaries between the natural and human realms seemed like a promising fictional premise. For Muriel Barbery, It’s Elves Who Are Elegant Now 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The protagonist, a novelist named Nathalie, is giving a public interview about her new book in a fictional French town called Vilan-en-Volène. A Playwright of Few Words 2011-05-24T13:25:00Z

"William James is a fictional character that is a product of my imagination," Boal wrote in his declaration before listing 29 scenes portrayed in the film that Sarver didn't experience. 'Hurt Locker' director seeks lawsuit's dismissal 2011-03-03T20:29:38Z

The connection between the two fictional characters is fitting because it mirrors a real-life link. The funniest relationship on TV? Colbert and House 2010-05-12T22:57:00Z

However, the writer alludes to the fictional Founding Fathers as strange in that they allow elections to take place. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Thankfully there’s plenty more where that comes from, in Funny or Die’s trailer for the fictional film “Three McConaugheys and a Baby.” “Three McConaugheys and a Baby” and more brilliant early sketches and side gigs by the current “SNL” cast 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Such flourishes link this fictional depiction to our own time while accentuating the limitless nature of its brand fantasy – at times reminding us, maybe, that it's OK relax into this world. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Wenders is best known for fictional features like “Paris, Texas” and “Faraway, So Close,” both of his Oscar nominations have come for documentaries, “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Pina.” A Documentary Collaboration That Didn't Start Out Promisingly 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

This programme may well affect the way fictional courtroom dramas are presented in future, not because screenwriters will see it – they presumably go to court all the time – but because we have. The Murder Trial – TV review 2013-07-09T22:05:00Z

Boozy and beloved, this 1968 “fictional memoir” is one of the better first novels ever written. Super Bowl reads: 9 champion football books, 1 fumble 2014-01-27T14:23:24Z

Vincent Gardenia makes a credibly gruff manager, and while the fictional team is named the New York Mammoths, sharp-eyed viewers will recognize the locations as Shea Stadium and the old Yankee Stadium at their grittiest. With Baseball Benched, These Movies Make Good Relievers 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

To qualify for the list the characters must be known in their fictional stories and by their audiences for being rich. Miserly duck tops list of richest fictional characters 2011-04-06T21:12:11Z

Here, a viewer might have a different reaction, wishing all of it was just another fictional drama about one set of people trying to stop another set of people from blowing up the world. Review | Packed with 9/11 hindsight, ‘The Looming Tower’ looms a lot 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

I'm sorry to tell you that the key lime pie from "Heartburn" was a fictional story from Ephron. Finding comfort in food, a lesson from Nora Ephron’s "Heartburn" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

I had never read anything like it before—a powerful writer not only writing about a fantastically singular one but imagining that life fictionally. Derek Walcott, a Mighty Poet, Has Died 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The hit series “Lost” was set on a mysterious South Seas island that was fictional and fantastical — a “Fantasy Island” where wishes mostly didn’t come true. | 'Off the Map': Doctors Operating Abroad, With Lots of Body Language 2011-01-12T00:12:29Z

When the episode of “The Undoing” that featured him aired in late November, his image had been edited out, leaving just the audio of his fictional commentary. The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

So be it; as Martin admits in the acknowledgments to "Bad Sex," the novel began as memoir and then was rewritten in fictional form. Clancy Martin's new novel is not about 'Bad Sex' but the bad stuff sex can make us do 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Before I knew it, I was writing a fictional meditation on beauty—a disapproval of it, but also a celebration of it. The Looks You’re Born With and the Looks You’re Given 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

What other fictional icon is recognised by a nine- or 90-year-old simply by their famous bellow? Tarzan rebooted 2012-07-13T08:42:09Z

Last we saw FBI Agent Dale Cooper, he was in the Great Northern Hotel in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Wash., staring into a cracked bathroom mirror with a maniacal grin. Perspective | ‘Twin Peaks’ made us weird. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

I’d also argue that “The Leftovers,” for all its attention to fictional cults, is about the importance of religion as we know it, and more specifically, what happens when faith is shaken. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

It was a world populated by carefree millionaires who expected caviar to be served in the stations of the fictional Fifth Avenue Subway and carwashes to spray their limousines with champagne. Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was the year of the Three Mile Island meltdown in Pennsylvania - a near-cataclysm referenced in the early moments of "Super 8" - and, not incidentally, the year of "The China Syndrome," TMI's fictional equivalent. `Super 8' message: Technology not our friend 2011-07-02T13:16:05Z

Thursday morning, people who respect comedy may at last have a full sense of what it's like to be one of those "Curb" characters who detests the fictional Larry David. Emmy nods for Larry David and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? But…why? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Wise has also been talking to a Hollywood screenwriter who wants to make a fictional story based on him, he says. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Howard's version of the story, Nat Cole and his fictional driver, Nat Weary, are bound together by a single, wanton act of violence. 'Driving the King' a bold reimagining of civil rights era 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But even the fictional qualities of the book reveal a truth. Jim Carrey, Unmasked 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

The fictional Maine town of Derry that appears in many of King’s tales, including “It,” is based on the author’s experiences in Bangor. Stephen, Tabitha King plan changes to iconic Maine home 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

On the acknowledgments page, he says the book is entirely fictional, but that’s the one thing in the book I had trouble believing. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

Blending the old-school pleasures of a radio play with a distinctly modern premise, ‘Passenger List’ is one of the best fictional podcasts of recent years. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

What pulls these books of hers, unwittingly or not, on to a feminist level derives from her innate rebelliousness, hinted at in the fictional Laura's moments of indignation, sisterly rivalry and daredevil escapades. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z

He also knew Proust and helped inspire the character Charles Swann; the fictional and real aesthetes, Mr. de Waal writes, were “both experts in the arcane subject of Venetian 15th-century medallions.” Antiques: 264 Carvings Tell History of Edmund de Waal?s Family 2010-08-12T21:10:00Z

“It has some fictional elements and composite characters,” Mr. Scott notes, but it carefully highlights “the relationships and rivalries of the major characters.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Lawrence of Arabia' 2011-06-06T23:38:09Z

Currently the fictional exploits of Don Draper and his colleagues in the New York advertising world of the 1960s are available on free-to-air digital channel BBC4. BSkyB poised to snatch Mad Men from BBC 2010-09-30T18:04:00Z

He taught that real stories come out of fictional characters who work out their own destiny and, if done right, the characters would create their own compelling plot points. Authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations 2013-05-09T19:21:16Z

The prestige films may get all the nominations, but audiences are flocking mostly to fun, fictional films. Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

The fictional reenactment on the set late last fall took on eerie overtones this week after Suge Knight's arrest on suspicion of homicide. Suge Knight's arrest foreshadowed in 'Straight Outta Compton' scene 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

"My book is a positive portrayal of a fictional character, and, spoiler alert, the main character is not actually murdered," he said. AP NewsBreak: Patterson pulls 'The Murder of Stephen King' 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

This week: Add a “plus one” to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional, as in the examples above. Style Invitational Week 1395: Always room for one more 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Toback, the director of "Fingers" and "Tyson," has teamed with Baldwin to document the process of selling a film at Cannes while simultaneously trying to land financing for a fictional film. In the shadows of art, Cannes' market flourishes 2012-05-20T14:46:12Z

Rarely has Wilder’s snapshot of this fictional New Hampshire hamlet seemed so diverse. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Q. Will the show be fictional or based on your reporting? ‘The Hot Zone’ Author Tracks Ebola’s Evolution 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

While the point of most fictional therapists is to show the public that shrinks are generally flakier than they look, Spacey's effort seems to top the lot. The 10 best screen psychoanalysts 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Aside from making great champagne, Bollinger is best known for its association with the James Bond movie franchise, as the favorite bubbly of Britain’s most famous fictional secret agent. Why a Bollinger champagne, c. 1914, tastes especially sweet 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Since its 2012 premiere, this spinoff of “The Closer” has followed a fictional unit of the Los Angeles Police Department that investigates, yes, major crimes. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Desus & Mero’ and ‘Take My Nose … Please!’ 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

In this fictional love letter to the pleasures of collaboration, students at M.I.T. and Harvard enter the arena of literary game-building, with hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking results. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

In this devastatingly accurate monologue, Miriam mixes real and fictional characters to evoke a hothouse climate of backbiting narcissists fighting for crumbs of respect. Charles Busch Claws at His Divas, but He Understands Them 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

It kicks off with Postcards From The Edge, a comic adaptation of Carrie Fisher's memoir in which Meryl Streep plays a fictional drug-addled star. This week's new film festivals 2011-08-12T23:07:25Z

The Casual Vacancy is set in the fictional and seemingly idyllic English village of Pagford, where tensions surface over plans to turn a community centre into a luxury spa. Casual Vacancy tops TV drama ratings 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

A second agent also passed, informing Abrams that her fictional president seemed “too absurd and nobody cares about the Supreme Court.” And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

In the process, he does a disservice to the people, the history, and his own fictional world. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

In each episode of “Wonderful!,” the husband-and-wife team of Griffin and Rachel McElroy talk about the things that are currently making them happy, however big or small — snacks, fictional characters, poetry. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

This musical combines the songs of Bob Dylan with a fictional story about a crowded boardinghouse during the Great Depression in the Minnesota city where Dylan was born. The 75th Tony Awards: Here’s What to Expect 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Underground Airlines” is landing in a thicket of fictional works about slavery and its lingering legacy in America. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Q: Are any real people from “Townie” depicted fictionally in “Dirty Love”? Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

It doesn't really matter how many cities their fictional namesakes may lay to waste. Don't worry, parents of babies named Khaleesi: You're in good company 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Don't respect a fictional dystopia more than real people of color; you're gross. Yandy's 'sexy Native American' costume sparks Twitter backlash: 'You're filth' 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Asked at the Munich Security Conference about Ukraine being dragged into U.S. politics, Zelenskiy reverted to his previous career as a comedic actor when he played a fictional president in a popular TV series. Who needs an Oscar? I'm popular in U.S. now, jokes Ukrainian leader 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Decades after Bugbee's grandest homes were destroyed in the earthquake of 1906, Jackson mined through old photographs of his work and used them to design some of her most nightmarish fictional structures. Shirley Jackson and her bewitching biography, 'A Rather Haunted Life' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

I found myself hoping that the next scene, in which he glad-hands colleagues at the office, was shot in slow motion because it was a fictional daydream. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her novels often put portraits of intimate relationships and sociological observations of the lives of Angelenos together with grander fictional ideas that resonate with political and social concerns of the moment. Carolyn See, Author of ‘Golden Days,’ Dies at 82 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“He’s been struggling with this history for many years,” Mr. Kramer writes of his fictional counterpart. Larry Kramer’s Novel ‘The American People’ Adds a Gay Dimension to History 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The character of crooked politician “Don” Conrado Sol is a fictional construct, embodying the political corruption in Mexico that has allowed the likes of El Chapo to flourish. El Chapo: Netflix's gruesome, gripping answer to The Wire 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Have you seen other fictional portrayals of Bowie? Q. and A.: Noah Bean on Portraying David Bowie 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

In this documentary novel, newspaper headlines, photographs and song lyrics thread through the fictional narratives of Sunny, a 12-year-old white girl, and Ray, a black teenager whose family is hosting a white volunteer. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Affecting a light Appalachian accent, the voice of fictional narrator and teen fighter Katniss Everdeen, the 48-year-old Collins read a couple of pages from the second book of the series, "Catching Fire." `Mockingjay' receives midnight launch at NYC store 2010-08-24T16:01:00Z

The fictional Franklin Saint is loosely based on the drug lord Freeway Ricky Ross, not the rapper. FX's fearless "Snowfall" comes to a close: A perfect ending to an American horror story 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

But so much of Assassin’s Creed, given its violence and fictional narrative, is problematic in a school setting. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

One of the most amusing finds is the short story about Fitzgerald as a fictional pugilist. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

The four-channel video tells the fictional story of a biohacker who becomes obsessed with an anonymous donor whose saliva she purchases online. Their Art Raised Questions About Technology. Chinese Censors Had Their Own Answer. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

A fictional character will walk into a great event and only see one tiny corner of it. WATCH: Historian decodes Dunkirk, the Allied defeat that helped win World War II 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Circle was the first fictional work by Eggers, best known for his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Emma Watson to Star With Tom Hanks in 'The Circle' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Well behind in the polls, with a restless caucus and an election campaign to plan, she presumably has a few things to do other than learn the fictional language of the mother of dragons. Julia Gillard's Dothraki tweets translated 2013-05-29T02:06:12Z

That approach — intimate portrayals, letting the digital releases drive the linear TV version, giving each fictional character an Instagram account — caught the attention of Mr. Fuller. Will ‘Skam,’ a Norwegian Hit, Translate? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

"He designed absolutely everything," said Kriger, who recently wrote a book about giving life to the fictional canteen. T Magazine: Shades of Casablanca 2013-01-31T22:59:06Z

“Yet Saint-Saëns did not have the extra measure of inspiration, idealism and intensity Rolland invested in his fictional hero, his modern Beethoven.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

The current generation of fictional drugs, rather than bubbling up from nature’s underworld, parachute into stories and novels from the corporate-technological top down. Fiction’s New Fake Drugs: A Preliminary Pharmacopoeia 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

When you’re working on songs for Empire, what’s the difference between making music for a fictional character and writing with a real artist? J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Lawmakers asked Sony Pictures to attach a disclaimer that the film is fictional. Director defends `Zero Dark Thirty' torture scenes 2013-01-16T13:32:13Z

The French designer was at R & Company gallery in TriBeCa, talking about Miss Oops, the fictional heroine of the romance story he dreamed up for his new exhibition there. A Panorama of Design 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

At the beginning of the book, Marzana is sure that nothing interesting ever happens in her part of a fictional city called Nagspeake. ‘Thief Knot’ author was drawn to mysteries long before she wrote them 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Nothing came of it, but in the play the fictional Taney offers an apology, which does not go well. A Fictional Apology to Dred Scott, Born of a Real Family’s Painful Legacy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In case you've missed it, the New York Symphony is the fictional orchestra in the television series "Mozart in the Jungle." L.A. Phil, Dudamel dive into the 'Mozart in the Jungle' act at the Bowl 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Keshavarz said her characters are fictional and drawn from news reports of many kidnapped journalists. Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The series, produced as a mock documentary, is set in the fictional offices of the Games organisers. London Olympics boss Lord Coe to appear in comedy 2011-03-02T10:16:25Z

I like to think this makes us better at understanding the equally subtle and devious hearts and minds of our fictional characters. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

This leads us, within a couple of episodes, to a fictional world with a strong similarity to “The Devil Wears Prada,” a film about a young woman at the whim of a mercurial boss. Off-pitch ‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Conducting serious actors among classical-music-industry cliches 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Christopher Wietrick, who helped persuade city officials to proclaim Hutchinson “Smallville” Thursday through Sunday in honor of Superman’s fictional hometown, says the turnout was bigger than expected and organizers are thinking about next year. ComiCon in Hutchinson exceeds expectation 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Tess Gunty won the fiction prize for her debut novel, “The Rabbit Hutch,” which takes place over the course of a summer week in an affordable housing complex in a fictional Indiana city. Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

To that, the fictional HBO executives decide they would like to make a professionally produced “behind the scenes” documentary about Valerie’s return to television, in the same vein as “The Comeback.” ‘The Comeback’: Valerie Cherish still makes it hurt so good

The show’s fictional company is composed entirely of professional dancers. ‘Flesh and Bone’: Ballet with an unhealthy dose of pain 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

To what extent are fictional characters genuinely reproducible? ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the assorted fictional pilgrims in Lourdes truthfully reflect the extent to which different beliefs carry more or less weight for different people. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z

He created two fictional "students" whose experiences mirrored those of the real characters. Iran's green revolution in animation 2011-01-20T23:00:02Z

Bowie uses this seepage from art to life and back in his performance, combining the outsider style and androgyny of his rock star persona with the unassimilable difference of the fictional alien. David Bowie’s magic dance: His explosive cinematic sexuality, from the Goblin King to “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Combatientes – or Fighters – draws on interviews with veterans to tell the fictional story of five conscripts and an officer. Falklands war TV drama tells forgotten story of Argentina's soldiers 2013-04-14T12:23:43Z

Sunday’s season premiere of HBO’s “Succession,” a dramedy that follows the machinations of one of the wealthiest fictional families on earth, represents this concept at its apex. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morellet now focuses on cartography art, or fictional maps, exhibiting in New York and parts of Europe. Encounters: AIDS in New York: Being Alive Was Beyond Belief for Some 2013-07-10T20:46:31Z

Tellingly, their central characters are not the musicians but their promoter-exploiters: a fictional white disc jockey in “Memphis”; Sam Phillips, the producer and owner of Sun Records, in “Million Dollar Quartet.” Rock Music Becomes the Mainstay of Broadway Musicals 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z

Many theories have been advanced to explain this Marie Celeste-like discovery, and Davies' fictional take, if less plausible than some, nevertheless provides a solid dramatic foundation for his work. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z

Intermittently we were also asked to participate in Zoom polls, all to foster our investment in this fictional neighborhood. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

The two sides eventually agreed that the book could be sold provided it displayed a disclaimer making its fictional nature abundantly clear. Mirkwood novel about JRR Tolkien set for the big screen 2011-08-16T11:44:26Z

The result, called “Tomorrow,” is the enticing fictional world of Norman Swann, an aging architect down on his luck and forced to sell his home. Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Tomorrow,’ at Victoria & Albert Museum 2013-12-09T23:11:08Z

Since then, Kötting has amassed a body of idiosyncratic work: fictional, factual and somewhere in between. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z

And “unstoppable” is the word that best fits the fictional children in three timely, poignant and sometimes tragic new novels describing the current global refugee crisis. Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

When they spot Iris sitting in her doll shop, one of them — a fictional member of the Brotherhood named Louis Frost — knows instantly that she must model for him. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

What kind of additional research did you do to write about this fictional group? Ghostwriter Hilary Liftin dishes on her first novel, 'Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was the halcyon days of the New Journalism, when such writers as Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Truman Capote used fictional techniques to make narrative journalism come alive with temperament, observation, and opinion. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The film consists largely of Mr. Gondry’s interviews with his aunt and cousin, supplemented by home movies and a few bits of visual business that recall his fictional films and music videos. Movie Review | 'The Thorn in the Heart': Michel Gondry Tells the Story of an Aunt and Cousin 2010-04-01T22:35:00Z

Even with its tongue planted firmly in cheek, “The Misandrists” is an unmistakably political film, but its aims are not to echo the goals of the fictional Female Liberation Army. Review: ‘The Misandrists’ Makes a Mockery of Matriarchies and Patriarchies Alike 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Minutiae of speech and gesture conspire to sour Marcus’s time at the fictional Winesburg College, and behind every misstep is the threat of being kicked out of school and shipped out to Korea. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Heller wryly “dubs” the face and presence of Hanks into these fictionally archival videotapes, which play a subtly major role in the film by offering a platform for Rogers to expound his philosophy. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But Russo was no fictional character in a studio movie, even as much as he adored the archetype. Vito Russo: from "Celluloid Closet" to cinema star 2011-12-23T13:32:35Z

Too, Lovecraft was the first author to create an open-source fictional universe. Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? 2013-05-08T22:07:00Z

I left LA for New York not in the impulsive way that fictional kid in “Passing Strange” left for Europe. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z

In other words, “Girlhood” leaves its fictional and its documentary aspects equally unrealized. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Bryant’s fictional counterpart, Jenny, lives in Cornwall and takes up highway robbery to support her family after losing her father. Fiction That Takes You Back in Time 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

It features the fictional character “Elle Forest,” who, “just after her upcoming graduation, would be getting married in the Hamptons and moving to New York to a gorgeous apartment on the Upper East Side.” A business school gets a lesson in sexism 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

The movie takes place in a fictional Southern neighborhood called The Glen that seems a little bit stuck in time. The Personal Back Story Driving ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

JNR As a star of Entourage – in which actors tell the story of a fictional movie star, but real celebs drop by – Adrian Grenier evidently has a skewed take on celeb culture. Tonight's TV highlights: Michel Roux's Service 2011-01-12T00:05:01Z

Libération newspaper recently ran a short story about a fictional president who gets his wife pregnant in the hope of improving his election chances. Carla Bruni hoping to become model mother to Nicolas Sarkozy's child 2011-01-03T18:18:00Z

Gyasi’s characters may be fictional, but their stories are representative of a range of experience that is all too real and difficult to uncover. The blazing success of Yaa Gyasi's 'Homegoing,' a panoramic portrait of the slave trade's legacy 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The festival will also feature the launch of "This Movie Is Broken," a fictional film by Bruce McDonald that centers on a Broken Social Scene concert. Broken Social Scene returns with "Forgiveness" 2010-04-17T01:56:00Z

So why bother, as in “Nixon,” to lure us to a fictional enterprise with contemporary characters and scenes from an active memory bank? A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

If fictional children can enter magical realms through a wardrobe or a tollbooth, why not a Christmas tree? 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Recently, he released an album with a trio called Love Theme and popped up on the Netflix reboot of “Twin Peaks” as a member of the fictional band Trouble. Dispatches From the Nomad Musician Alex Zhang Hungtai 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The best way to answer those questions would be to look at the hit TV show "Glee," in which all manner of popular songs are rearranged for a fictional high-school show choir. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z

To your point about fictional and fringe religions, NBC’s coming life-after-death comedy “The Good Place” is set in a bespoke, nondenominational afterlife whose details, we’re told, each major religion only guessed a small percentage of. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, and was praised as for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. 'Roseanne' returns with monster TV ratings in Trump era 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

After the medication took effect, the two groups were instructed to rate the pain levels of people in eight different fictional situations — all were emotionally or physically traumatic scenarios. Unexpected side effects of popping pills: Research shows common painkillers can reduce empathy 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

At the top of that list is HBO’s “Watchmen,” a stunningly realized drama about race and vigilante justice in a fictional America suffering from a peculiar sort of superhero complex. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

It would be glib to call Malala’s very real fight for justice and Harry Potter’s fictional quest a case of life imitating art. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

At the very least you expect their fictional counterparts to exchange a little shoptalk and some thoughts on art, literature and the latest restoration techniques or maybe just gossip about Picasso’s latest mistress. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z

The show relied too strongly, for instance, on empty-calorie cameos from actors dutifully but not transcendentally playing rock gods, either interacting with fictional characters or performing their hits. 'Vinyl' on HBO Was a Major Disappointment: What Went Wrong? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

“This isn’t the Old South of tangled prose and gothic characters,” Kathryn Morton said in The New York Times Book Review, describing Ms. Brown’s fictional landscape. Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z

Nevertheless, he usually shows up a co-star in documentaries about other 19th century leaders, as is the case in two recent Lincoln documentary series or the fictional series "The Good Lord Bird." HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The hacks had to decide on their fictional newspaper's "leader", and what kind of line to take on each. Rewind radio: Who provided the best phone-hacking coverage? 2011-07-09T23:06:06Z

A note at the beginning of “The Harder They Fall” asserts that while the story is fictional, “These. People. Existed.” ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: A New Look for the Old West 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Imagining a crime-solving partnership between a grouchy police detective and a fictional Edgar Allan Poe, this historical thriller cooks up overheated gothic melodrama in a wintry New York setting. ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review: Stolen Hearts and Tortured Minds 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

A number of events are also planned for "Mad Men's" fictional home of New York City. Don Draper's suit, fedora and bar cart will go to the Smithsonian 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The girls of the fictional Essex College are still freshmen, but the acclaimed HBO Max series "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is already deep into a strong sophomore season. "Sex Lives" star Pauline Chalamet on civic duty: "We have to pay attention to our democracy" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Madness” is composed of 10 sections: an introduction, selected poems from eight fictional collections, and a concluding section of “Last Poems.” He Never Existed. Here Are His Selected Poems. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Either way, the possibilities begin to multiply when we’re listening to the work of fictional musicians — that is, when the musicians don’t exist in real life, but whose music does. On a scale of Monkees-to-Gorillaz, how should we evaluate fictional music? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Prince Albert and his sisters - Kelly's children Caroline and Stephanie - said a trailer "confirms the totally fictional nature of this film". Cannes to open with glitz, glamour and dash of scandal 2014-05-11T10:47:57Z

He’s the lead in director Rick Alverson’s feature film “Entertainment,” a fictional tale of a comic touring the West Coast. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But his life was saved when he was recruited by Georgii Strelkov, an ardent Old Bolshevik serving 25 years for a fictional offence, who was running the combine's research laboratory. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z

Whenever I’m confronted with fictional bad fathers, I never think about my own father. My constant fear: Am I a lousy father? 2014-01-17T14:00:00Z

But from the very epigraph, quoting a fictional scientist who says that it is physically impossible to survive for 40 days without sustenance, it’s clear that one door, at least, is closed. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

For readers who would rather tune out global conflict and immerse themselves in a fictional character’s mind, there’s an experimental new novel from Rebecca Watson — and the latest from Elena Ferrante. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Some are lists of Mrs. Nixon's childhood nicknames or quirky life events; others are first-person recollections from Mrs. Nixon's point of view, or fictional stories inspired by Mrs. Nixon or her husband. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z

A native of Mississippi, he set much of his work in the American South and often in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. William Faulkner archival material to be sold at auction 2013-03-28T21:50:15Z

So we could start our local inquiry with movies that, while clearly fictional, have that elusive, bracing feeling of realness. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z

Her first book, Home Affairs, a comedy set in the fictional African town of Hillman, was well received in South Africa and won a literary competition run by the Citizen newspaper. Irish author Bree O'Mara killed in Libya plane crash 2010-05-13T12:36:00Z

The movie’s main problem is that the actual story of the Suicide Forest is more unsettling than this fictional one. Review: ‘The Forest’ Centers on the Search for a Twin at a Suicide Site in Japan 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

According to , Giant Baby follows the story of fictional Broadway star Madison Banks, played by Alley, who reconnects with her long-lost son after the death of his adopted mother. Seinfeld star cast in new sitcom 2012-12-05T09:24:41Z

We can watch footage of drone strikes online, we can enact our own fictional operations in games. Kill shots: why cinema has drone warfare in its sights 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

And the show's biggest draw, Matt LeBlanc -- who plays a sleazy, manipulative, yet weirdly winning fictional version of himself -- was barely in the premiere, which ought to tell us something. What makes Matt LeBlanc's new show so good 2011-02-03T15:04:00Z

He famously based "The Producers" on a fictional musical about Adolf Hitler, and in "History of the World," he put together an entire song-and-dance routine about the Spanish Inquisition. 11 memorable facts about "History Of The World, Part I" 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Britain’s Royal Navy said Thursday that James Bond star Daniel Craig has been made an honorary commander in the service — the same rank held by the fictional secret agent. Commander Craig: 007 star made honorary Royal Navy officer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

So she sets out to investigate, in a search that comes to involve a fictional wellness company with a dark side. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Homecoming’ and ‘AKA Jane Roe’ 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

They formed the fictional Binational Commission of Historical and Geographical Borders and drove the length of the 1821 boundary, placing 47 homemade steel markers as they went. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

That fictional series, set in New Jersey in the Prohibition years and full of real-life characters, makes pretty interesting companion viewing to Part 2 of the Burns/Novick program. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z

And it's usually the most compelling stories, not always a true story, sometimes a fictional story, that ends up convincing people to convict people and leads to a kind of certainty. Inside Netflix's "Innocence Files": "The system is set up to attain convictions" 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

This weekend, our best look at the new dinosaur that will be terrorizing the fictional park in this summer’s third Jurassic Park sequel was unveiled in New York at Toy Fair. First Look At 'Jurassic World' Secret Dinosaurs Raises More Questions 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

In hisDecember 2015 review for The Times, Mr. Scott described a claustrophobia of “a degree that few fictional films have had the nerve to attempt.” Cursed Films, Blessed on Blu-ray 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

This week’s issue is filled with ghosts and horror, both real and fictional. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

He was especially intrigued by country radio programs like “Lum and Abner,” a comedy act that centered on life in a fictional small town in Arkansas, and whose language would greatly influence his work. Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

But, whereas Doinel’s fictional life was defined, as any self-mythologizing Frenchman’s would be, in terms of his relationships with a series of stunning women, Rocky must measure himself always in his workplace: the ring. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Park Laneby Frances Osborne This time Osborne plunders her family's history for fictional ends. Park Lane by Frances Osborne – review 2012-06-29T21:55:07Z

But in this case the woman in question is Gustave Flaubert's flawed but fascinating Madame Bovary, and she is the subject of two new movies that deal with her fictional life in very different ways. 'Madame Bovary' returns to speak to modern condition in two distinct films 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Unlike the original, this iteration takes place in several locations rather than just the titular fictional Washington town. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Is his depiction of a fictional Jewish anti-Zionist group as the "ASHamed Jews" fair? Sounds Jewish: September 2010 2010-09-08T09:47:00Z

The town of Ebbing in the director Martin McDonagh’s film is fictional. Silver-Screen Travel Inspiration for Oscars Season 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Its world is populated by thousands of fictional characters, all with their own abilities and personalities. Video Game Review: Crusader Kings II by Paradox Interactive 2012-03-30T22:47:44Z

Susan is a familiar fictional archetype — a beleaguered housewife who regularly fantasizes about driving her family’s car through the guardrails of a cliffside road. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

He was unequivocal when he got to his opinion of the work: “‘Ulysses’ is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century,” he declared. The Rough Read That Was ‘Ulysses’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Into this breach steps our fictional protagonist, the "good man" of the book's title. 'A Good Man': the aftermath of Custer's last stand 2012-01-11T22:09:07Z

This fictional ad was based on a real one that appeared in the mid-1990s in Backwoods Home, a survivalist magazine. Movie Review: ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ a Comedy With a Time Machine 2012-06-07T22:55:46Z

Erdrich owns an independent bookstore called Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, which shares some similarities with the fictional store — including a proprietor named Louise and a confessional booth. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

And the truly great love story of our young selves and our fictional prom dates isn’t between those boys and us at all. The best imaginary boyfriends of all time 2013-06-06T14:43:00Z

She's everything he dreamed up — to the extent that she changes whenever he writes a new detail — except that she doesn't appear to be fictional. Zoe Kazan goes 'down a rabbit hole' with the movie 'Ruby Sparks' 2012-08-01T22:31:05Z

Both the real and the fictional judges were famous for their tempers and rants from the bench. NY judge who was model for 'Bonfire' jurist dies 2010-10-25T15:30:00Z

Sand Lake is, in many regards, a northeastern doppelganger to its fictional Pacific Northwest counterpart. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

“If I do another one, I’d want to do a fictional story,” he said. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But more to the point, it ignores an obvious truth: A real-life workplace is never as interesting as a fictional one. Television Review: ?The Pitch,? A New Reality Show on AMC 2012-04-06T23:32:51Z

Why, in the science fictional future, is there always banking, money, markets, finance, wage-labor, corporations, inequality? Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

We also see an excerpt from a film made by Westinghouse for the New York fair, showing a fictional family, the Middletons, making their way through the pavilion. Exhibition Review: World’s Fairs of 1930s Showed Boundless Vision of Prosperity 2012-12-06T23:31:49Z

The trouble with crafting fictional stories out of your real life is that you can start believing you can control where that story is going. I was arrested for harassment, and that was the good part 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The story, told in textile works, collage and two enormous pieces of chicharrón, is about a fictional dinner party where the protagonist, Lupe, introduces her new British boyfriend to her Mexican American friends. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' as Latin-flavored art installation 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The family themes of the Cosby exhibition — an extension of the fictional family-friendly brand that made Cosby wealthy — now look like an elaborate veil cast over the abuses of the patriarch. As Cosby exhibit stays on view, it evokes a more critical look 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Like the narrator of this novel, the real-life Arthur Phillips has written a novel titled "Prague" and has the same editor, agent and publicist as his fictional doppelgänger. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

This 1972 documentary focuses on a part of the war that its later fictional counterparts would try to finesse and explain away: the atrocities carried out by US forces against civilians in Vietnam. From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Do I select Papers, Please, the amusingly drab, playfully tedious computer game that put me in the role of a border agent in a fictional Eastern European police state? ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z

One predominant fictional argot of Facebook for teenagers would be breathlessness or emphatic speech. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z

At times, the result is an exhausting laundry list of pop cultural references real and fictional. Mathew Klickstein has made a career out of nostalgia. Now he’s satirizing our yearning for the past. 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Her being fictional shouldn’t prevent her from getting a degree,” he said. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Harvey’s story is told through a combination of historical facts and fictional reimaginings of the obsession that drove the reverend to seek out the elusive creature. Books to Watch Out For: July 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

She added: “It definitely pushes boundaries, but Chloë knows the things that Hit Girl says and does are fictional.” Film: Chlo? Grace Moretz, Hit Girl in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

Georgia A&M, the fictional historically black university at the center of this drama, has had a tumultuous spring semester. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Last O.G.’ and ‘Legion’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

This “Titanic,” which can be seen on ABC on Saturday and Sunday, focuses on the story of the ship’s middle-class passengers, a group largely ignored in fictional accounts, Ms. Henry said. Weekend Miser: ?Titanic at 100? at South Street Seaport Museum 2012-04-12T21:48:43Z

Season three of the Emmy Award-winning series arrives on streaming service Hulu on Wednesday with its portrait of life in the fictional U.S. state of Gilead as seemingly prescient as ever. New season of 'Handmaid's Tale' not meant to be 'torture to watch,'... 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

The town served as a model for the fictional hamlet of Maycomb that was the locus of both “Mockingbird” and “Watchman.” Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mad Men fans endured temperatures hovering around 20 degrees Monday morning to catch a glimpse of the show’s stars outside New York’s Time-Life building—which also houses the fictional agency depicted in AMC’s drama. AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

“I was more immersed in the fictional world because I was concentrating so much,” Esther Lee, a junior, said, describing her experience of reviewing the online transcriptions for mistakes. Humanities 2.0: Giving Literature Virtual Life 2011-03-21T22:33:37Z

We live in an era where the fictional and the real have an intricate relationship, and sometimes it’s hard to separate them. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

It can’t be lost on the creative team that in adapting their Off Broadway hit for a bigger and more conventional audience they courted the same fate as their fictional counterparts. Review: In ‘KPOP,’ Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Metcalf and Sparks share a Stephen King connection: she starred in “Misery” on Broadway, and he was in Season 2 of Hulu’s “Castle Rock,” which is set in King’s fictional universe. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

All three confided their true hearts to Juliet, writing to Shakespeare's fictional heroine seeking consolation, encouragement and friendship. 3 women honored in Italy for letters to Juliet 2011-02-13T17:21:08Z

Not seen as often are fictional depictions of Black regiments told with laughter amid joy while maintaining a reverence for their characters. A salute to "Dickinson" and its devotion to using notoriety to spotlight other unsung histories 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Q: Will you return to writing more typically fictional novels? Book Talk: Karl Ove Knausgaard on life after his 'Struggle' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

But he used reality as a starting-off point to create an indelible fictional world. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

“The Judge,” which takes place in the fictional Indiana town of Carlinville, was filmed here this summer. On Location: A New England Village 2013-08-15T20:53:29Z

When Fitzgerald died, “The Last Tycoon” was half-finished, the incomplete story of two men, partners yet rivals, who keep a fictional film studio afloat as labor unions form and financing ebbs and flows. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Last week, in honour of Britain's Got Talent entrants Take Fat, he corralled listeners into contributing to his list of fictional overweight tribute bands: Bun Loving Criminal got my vote. A week listening to ? Radio 2 2011-02-10T13:56:01Z

And while she’s a fictional character speaking about a fictional opponent, it’s a terrifying accurate summary of the social and political landscape. Shonda Rhimes: another stirring speech from TV's master craftswoman 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

As for the fictional family the Glasses, Mr. Salinger had apparently been writing about them nonstop. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

He often had dinner with Snook, his fictional wife, and other cast members. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Elephant House is a regular stop for Harry Potter fans and long bore a sign declaring itself as the “birthplace” of the fictional young wizard. Fire damages self-described ‘birthplace’ of Harry Potter 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Season one mostly focuses on the fictional Stede's momentous and oddly romantic meeting with the infamous Blackbeard, told through absurd comedy that softens and makes light of the brutality of real piracy. Here's what "Our Flag Means Death" gets right about the Golden Age of Piracy 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the title story, the fictional daughter of an Ethiopian father and Egyptian mother tells how her journalist parents met while covering Ali’s legendary boxing match with George Foreman in Zaire.  Irreverant stories of Arab-American women fill Randa Jarrar's 'Him, Me, Muhammad Ali' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

We are encouraged to recognize that we are watching a troupe of actors in performance, presenting a fictional tale. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

That these moments and the spaces in which they occur are fictional only makes them more entrancing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The fictional Bob, at one point, enters wearing a very groovy python jacket. The Marvelous Mr. Mackie 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Tough but tender, and with flowing blond hair, Ms. Giddish’s Annie immediately calls to mind another fictional United States marshal, the one played by Mary McCormack on USA’s “In Plain Sight.” Television Review: As Killings Mount in Houston, Marshal Dons Cowboy Boots and Starts Running 2010-09-19T23:03:00Z

It has now been just about a year since Don Draper took the lotus position on a California cliff and went off to the great fictional Madison Avenue in the sky. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

The cult television series Trailer Park Boys focusses on the misadventures of the residents of a fictional trailer park in Nova Scotia, Canada. 'Trailer Park Boys' Star John Dunsworth has Died Aged 71 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The conceit that every fictional invention is a spin on a real-life event clearly appeals to Harvey Weinstein, producer of the film and the musical. In 'Finding Neverland' at the Pantages, pirates and pixie dust obscure the show's secret weapon: Sorrow 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

"I was more immersed in the fictional world because I was concentrating so much," Esther Lee, a junior, said, describing her experience of reviewing the online transcriptions for mistakes. Giving literature virtual life 2011-03-22T17:48:29Z

Is it sad that I kinda wanna cry because my favorite fictional character is leaving? Callie Torres is Leaving 'Grey's Anatomy' After 10 Seasons 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Answers only arrive via plot twists or obscure, often fictional, bits of knowledge thrown in from the blue. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z

“It’s important to me as an athlete to tell a story that is cinematic and fictional but could have really happened and does reflect the true experience there,” Ms. Pappas said. 4 Athletes Selected as Artists in Residence at the Olympics 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

For another, it dispenses with some of the waxenness of its 985-page predecessor and breathes life into its fictional characters, many of whose parents appeared in the first book. Books of The Times: Ken Follett Offers Second Volume of Century Trilogy 2012-09-16T22:11:55Z

Like real-life violence–see the debate over watching terrorist beheading videos–the outrage that a fictional atrocity provokes makes people want to react morally one way or another. Suffer the Children: Saying "No Thanks" to TV's Child-in-Peril Stories 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Ours happened to be a fictional truth, but it deepened the place nonetheless. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The HBO show, which takes place in a fictional television news studio, is the latest offering from the man who created beloved series like The West Wing and hit films including The Social Network. Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom prepares to debut amid stinging criticism 2012-06-23T20:19:03Z

But as Samuel Schoenbaum documents in his book “Shakespeare’s Lives,” the Bard’s rise to cultural hero in the 19th century coincided with his emergence as a fictional character. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Its appeal was often attributed to its feminist consciousness, with Ms. Moore playing a fictional Minneapolis assistant TV news producer named Mary Richards who navigates a career, friendships and single life. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

That campus tour, George tells Edith early on, is “like a first date”; and indeed the fictional Middleton is appealing — more so, unfortunately, than its all-too-predictable visitors. ‘At Middleton’: Gonzaga, WSU star in campus-tour romance 2014-01-30T20:53:22Z

A few years ago, the duchess of Cambridge’s soigné appearance right after childbirth — hinting at stringent expectations for her looks and behavior — inspired Barnes to write a monologue for a fictional duchess. Inspired by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, a new play ponders race, gender and inclusion 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

This is a straightforward story that Mr. de Los Santos Arias, making his fictional feature debut, tells in an ever-changing style, shooting in color and black and white. Review: In ‘Cocote,’ an Ambitious Director Undercuts His Simple Story 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The only balm that seemed to soothe this wound was the fictional Cosby family in the 1980s and the very real Obama family in the early 21st century. A tale of two magazine covers: The Kardashians, the Lowes & America’s racist double standards 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

While a real-life former First Lady was arguing her case to the Democratic party at last night’s primary debate in Milwaukee, a fictional one was trying to find her own path to the White House. Why Hillary isn’t crushing it: Advice from “Scandal”’s Olivia Pope that Clinton needs to hear 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

He began his career with “Essex County Trilogy,” a fictional version of his childhood upbringing. Black Hammer, an Indie Comic, Gets a Major Film and TV Deal 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Dr. Boone confessed that he didn’t fit into his small Minnesota town, located near the fictional Lake Wobegon. Two Men Gone Country and Their Dreamgirls 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

For more than a decade, cancellation rumors have dogged “Days of Our Lives,” which follows a collection of characters in the fictional Midwestern town of Salem. ‘Days of Our Lives,’ NBC Mainstay Since 1965, Moves to Peacock 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

And what about the harkening back to some other time — these fictional times. The digital media age is all about the past: “The Internet is not an extension of television” 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

For context, Simien’s film “Dear White People” focuses on a group of students at a fictional Ivy League university when a house on campus throws an “Unleash Your Inner Negro” party. Reality TV is not the “new blackface”: How reality shows became some of our most useful explorations of race in America 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

In “The Afterlives,” Pierce has worked a similar magic, connecting us to fictional characters who seem, somehow, 100 percent real. A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

She vividly describes violence only hinted at in the novel, wherein she appears as the most malevolent of Bellow’s many fictional witches, who “eat green salad and drink human blood.” ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Most of the movie stars are fictional, but there are cameos from the likes of Jack Nicholson and George Clooney, and the overall impression is of an exposé, but one written with fondness. American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor – review 2013-04-27T14:30:01Z

On the darkest days, what do I have to offer but notes on some fictional tragedy? When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

The archival video convinced me to try it as a documentary and not a fictional film. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

But if the Buckner Mansion retained the gloom of its fictional counterpart, the opposite happened here. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The fictional council house development in Greater Manchester that forms the backdrop to Shameless, one of Britain's longest-running drama series, is packed with dodgy incident. How Shameless stars came of age on West End stage 2011-04-09T23:06:27Z

Yet in truth, the only thing this fictional character seems to share with the woman who plays her is that public responses to both function like a monitor of our changing attitudes to lone women. Renée Zellweger: there is so much more to her than Bridget Jones | Observer profile 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Cumberbatch talked for a long time about the tragedy of Turing’s life and about what has been a series of very intense roles, heavy on iconic fictional characters and real people. T Magazine: The Case of the Accidental Superstar 2014-03-07T14:00:51Z

There will also be wedding trivia, and footage of classic weddings, both real and fictional. The Royal Wedding: Royal Wedding Receptions, No Gift Required 2011-04-05T19:55:15Z

Historical series include a fictional tale based on late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's life, one about Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez and another on Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. The Spanish-language network Telemundo is growing with a strategy that brings more American story forms to its audience 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Coffin’s personal journey is almost as circuitous as the Minions’ time-travelling quest to find their rightful place in their fictional world. Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

That very reason lends McCall to a gender flip more easily than other fictional crusaders. A Queen becomes "The Equalizer": What it means when Black women take on legacy superhero roles 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Any writer comes to love all her characters, real or fictional, strong or weak, in spite of – and because of – their faults. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, Boyhood shimmers with unforced reality. REVIEW: Richard Linklater's Boyhood Is a Thrilling Epic of Ordinary Life 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Like the fictional character, Catan is hired by aquariums in summertime, but much of her work entails classes and parties. 'Mermaids' find raison d'etre in Brazil 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Scott sets this collection, like his first, in a fictional, mostly black utopian community founded after “the only successful slave revolt in the nation’s history.” New in Paperback: ‘Girl in Black and White’ and ‘Know My Name’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

They live in a bog-standard fictional English town which is neither beautiful nor remarkable. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Part of what makes these women and their fictional sisters so fascinating is that they live their lives and exercise their wills in highly constrained circumstances. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z

You’d be hard pressed to find a warmer place to spend Christmas night than Nonnatus House, the fictional London convent where the nuns of “Call the Midwife” practice their craft. What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Insecure’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

This explains the appearances of odd characters that made the leap from writers room in-jokes to broadcast, like Bee's fictional attraction to a mailman or a weird character Bartlett named "Very Pregnant Grandma." How late night adjusted – and became weirder and more creative – after a pandemic year 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

He attributed most of his work done between 1989 to 2004, and installed on MoMA’s third floor, to the Atlas Group, a fictional foundation dedicated to researching and documenting Lebanon’s modern history. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Was it gratifying to play that in this fictional, very fractured environment? D.I.Y. Sci-Fi: A Talk With Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Though the characters are fictional, the portrayal of a politically divided country makes this twisty thriller feel all too plausible. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Take it as a fictional act of reparations? The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Just a week after soldiering through “The Demons,” I was reviewing another Lincoln Center Festival production, the Complicite show “A Disappearing Number,” about the lives of mathematicians both fictional and historical. Theater Talkback: Doing Your Homework 2010-07-22T16:31:00Z

One interactive display introduces us to fictional characters of varied ages who decide whether to get genetic testing and then decide how to act on the information. Exhibition Review: ‘Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,’ at the Smithsonian 2013-08-29T21:30:18Z

For many Muslims, Rushdie, in his fictional retelling of the birth of Islam’s key events, implies that, rather than God, the Prophet Muhammed is himself the source of revealed truths. Why “The Satanic Verses” remains so controversial 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

“The fictional town is a location that reflects the tension between the fecundity of the ancient forests and the constant change of the new,” Briggs writes. Best of the decade: ‘Twin Peaks,’ the Northwest’s pioneering mystery, returned to television — and North Bend, to court a new generation of fans 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The play, about a fictional mining disaster in West Virginia, is lighted entirely with headlamps worn by the actors, and sometimes it isn’t lighted at all. Review: In ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come,’ Tensions Down in the Hole 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

But that doesn’t mean that the fictional characters on London’s stages aren’t already feeling the pain of privation in their own, particularly emotive ways. London Theater Journal: Feeling The Pain 2010-07-19T16:58:00Z

Written as a self-help manual, it tells the story of a Starbucks barista who gets recruited by a fictional tech start-up where he is the only Black employee. Cold-Calling Strangers Taught Mateo Askaripour How to Be a Writer 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

It was hatched at the Orchard Project, a theater retreat in the Catskills where company members began to build the Stella Burden myth and formulate the fictional Approach. Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

But that doesn’t mean that the fictional characters on London’s stages aren’t already feeling the pain of privation in their own particularly emotive ways. London Theater Scene Echoes Economic Woes 2010-07-20T21:34:00Z

These fictional stories exemplify how much of our historical accounts and reporting of wars are subject to biases, skewed perspectives and selective memories. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Founded by Tracie Hotchner, a Vermont author and radio host, these annual festivals consist of independent short works that can be documentary or fictional, serious or silly. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Talking about her as a fictional character is kind of the only way that we can have a fair conversation about the real woman,” she said. Hillary Clinton Lost. The Play Won. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

What I think of is the one moment in Plath's novel when she casts her fictional counterpart beyond the trajectory of the story's events. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Here are excerpts from that conversation: Q. This new film of yours really blends some unusual elements, like mixing documentary and fictional techniques, and was shot in a most unusual setting. The Carpetbagger: Even in Their 80s, Brothers Behind the Camera 2012-11-28T17:51:57Z

The fictional look at the creation of Facebook dominated at the society's annual awards, which were voted on by 46 prominent movie critics gathered at a Manhattan restaurant. Film critics group: `Social Network' is 2010 pick 2011-01-09T00:49:08Z

It quickly convinces you that its less-than-credible fictional world is not only vivid but real. Review: In ‘Chester Bailey,’ a Case of Physician, Shrink Thyself 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

My fictional village is a small, dreamlike place with beautiful people and pastoral landscapes – but also hints of tragedy beneath the surface. Adi Nes's best photograph: a man, a turkey and an imaginary village 2012-12-12T17:42:14Z

The rumors of Harris being in a tough spot with his popular fictional serial killer was given more credence by an Entertainment Weekly article about the Hannibal prequel, Hannibal Rising. Supply and Demand Harmed Hannibal Lecter and 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The sketch, which saw the Mr Bean star play a fictional new head of the Anglican church, attracted 2,200 complaints. Jim Carrey takes aim at NRA – and Rowan Atkinson's brother isn't amused 2013-03-26T17:02:03Z

Mr. Borg, an amiable optimist who confesses to daddy issues, and Mr. Rizzolo, a steady father and skeptic, push the limits of docudrama, indirectly revealing psychological character portraits of themselves without introducing overtly fictional elements. | 'Locker No. 4173b': One Person?s Detritus Is Someone Else?s Play 2011-05-10T21:40:15Z

The bottom line is she sounds horrendous, like Glenn Close’s bunny boiler in Fatal Attraction and every other female ogre dreamt up by men; I can’t help wondering if she’s equally fictional. My wife is a female chauvinist pig | Mariella Frostrup 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

So, apparently, there might be more of “Stephen Colbert,” the fictional wing-nut talk show host portrayed so winningly by Stephen Colbert during nine-plus years of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. Final 'Colbert Report': Colbert confers self immortality, sings 'We'll Meet Again' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

I found their anger bizarre, since the fictional Earl is so violent he "walked right through that restraining order and put her in intensive care." America needs the Dixie Chicks' candor and audacity now more than ever 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

We can reread a fictional scene, turn it over in our minds, allow it to teach us — possible good preparation for any future dicey off-the-page real-time experiences. Perspective | What bad-sex novels can teach us about consent and harassment 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

A rising teen suicide rate is cause for concern, but maybe we would do better to examine and address real-world causes rather than fictional ones. Why you shouldn’t censor your teen’s reading (even the sex and violence) 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Djinn is a captive to whoever releases him from the bottle; he’s a fictional creation, and this is a fairy tale. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Faber vivifies the atmosphere and environment of the fictional planet, from its marked humidity to its insect life, with fascinating specificity. Books for Left-Brained Readers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The movie was never made, and Plunket failed to sell his third novel, an illustrated coffee table book about a fictional interior designer. Taking a Late-in-Life Victory Lap, Thanks to His Novel’s ‘Lunatic Energy’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

The ferocity with which people engage and identify with fictional media and build subcultures around it seems to develop in inverse proportion to their social power. Introducing The New Face of Fandom: Women 2012-09-12T12:00:44Z

But even Mr. Franco is probably no match for the impending radiance of Loren and Eddie, a sunbeam no Hollywood prankster, real or fictional, can disrupt. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Hollywood Heights’ on Nickelodeon, With James Franco 2012-07-09T22:33:23Z

The summaries of the fictional works created under his tutelage leave little doubt about the soul-destroying difficulty of his job. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Wellsbury is fictional too, but we know its places and its people. "Ginny & Georgia" isn't "Gilmore Girls" redux – it's darker, riskier and far more fun 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The "Halloween" franchise was set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Ill. but filmed elsewhere. 'Sinister 2' begins filming in Chicago this week 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

In this fictional world at least, we are indebted to them for thwarting plans within the KGB to frame Gorbachev and derail a U.S.-Soviet summit. Review | In a somber, satisfying ‘Americans’ finale, Philip and Elizabeth make a painful choice 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Tate is the creation of British novelist William Boyd, who wrote a fictional biography that included reproductions of the artist's drawings. Sotheby's to sell real drawing by fake artist 2011-10-17T10:51:08Z

One morning around 2007, a fictional character named So So, a middle-aged Black home-care nurse in Baltimore, started speaking to her. A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Sherlock Holmes, of course, is a fictional creation—but, for a long time, the sleuth’s fans thought that his preferred method of hand-to-hand combat was fictional too. Fight Like Sherlock Holmes: A Victorian Martial Art Makes a Comeback 2013-05-01T15:34:12Z

The "Turtles" movie features a fictional team of four anthropomorphic teenage turtles who were trained in martial arts. 'Turtles' tops again, beats 'Guardians' at North American box office 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Mo’ Better Blues,” Spike Lee’s film about a fictional jazz group, became the theme of their Oct. It Was ‘I Love You’ (Twice) at First Sight 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the essay, King recounts his decision to pull his 1977 novella “Rage” from publication after the book’s fictional account of a classroom gunman was linked with four real-life school shootings and hostage situations. “Time to ban assault weapons”: Stephen King weighs in on the gun control debate 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

There's "30 Rock's" "Blurgh," "Castle's" "Shut the front door," and other fictional TV curses. For Pete’s sake — Who is Pete? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

But since he has remembered that we are not dealing with the actual modern world – only with the fictional modern world – he's got into his stride. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

It annihilates the conventional set of literary genres and organically makes up new ones, which form a kind of map of human fictional compulsions. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

And Olympia Dukakis, still formidable as Anna Madrigal, whose 90th birthday is the device that brings Mary Ann back to Anna’s enclave in the fictional hilltop wonderland of Barbary Lane. Review: The More, Further (Final?) ‘Tales of the City’ 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

His new book, “Gone So Long,” is a fictional exploration of this dangerous idea. He Killed Her Mother. Now He Wants to Make Amends. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Gaines, for whom Brooks created an entire fictional identity and planned an aborted film vehicle, performed as the musical guest and was credited independently. Saturday Night Live: the best and worst musical hosts 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Like the real figure, Stewart’s fictional counterpart is drawn into her profession literally by accident. ‘Girl Waits With Gun’ review: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

His parents pushed him academically, and he honored them by making his fictional alter ego a high school teacher. A New Superhero Arrives to Protect the Powerless 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Wright said he was alarmed by the overlap between his fictional pandemic and the coronavirus outbreak. Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

During the book’s first M&M meeting, the chairman of your fictional team of surgeons, Dr. Harding Hooten, makes a statement about missing the basics in medicine. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

Set in a fictional elite university town, "The Philanthropist" follows a group of students wrapped up in their lives over a 24-hour period. British comedy 'The Philanthropist' returns to London stage 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Their hermetic self-reliance and self-interestedness, for all its ideological implications, are the dramatic reflection of a fictional world that’s thinly and lazily conceived. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Over time, “Wilderness” became more fictional, and the narrative focused on the uncertainty of the future in front of us. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Clancy followed it up with Red Storm Rising and Patriot Games, which told of a fictional IRA splinter group that plots to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales. Obituary: Tom Clancy 2013-10-02T17:15:27Z

In this case, however, I’m not describing the fictional zombies inside the show, but the show itself. What Makes The Walking Dead the Undead Ruler of TV? 2014-02-25T23:54:38Z

Both are sung in the movie by the fictional group the Folksmen. With Jane Lynch, It’s Not Your Typical Cabaret 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

This year's "Simpsons" annual Halloween "Treehouse of Horror" special kicked off with a scene from election day in the titular family's fictional American town of Springfield. “The Simpsons” hasn’t declined due to bad writing; its outdated politics no longer make sense 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

This fall, as one of the most dramatic presidential elections in recent memory unfolds, television audiences are finding themselves overrun with fictional commanders in chief. TV Presidents: Heroes, Schemers and Buffoons 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

But also rare was the way a sitcom became embroiled in a real-world political debate — and addressed it through its fictional characters. ‘Murphy Brown’ once sparked a feud with Dan Quayle. Now the reboot is courting one with Trump. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The show was a tapestry of high points from the LaChuisa canon, in which events and characters, famous and obscure, real and fictional, reveal themselves. Music Review: Michael John LaChiusa Has His Night at the Allen Room 2014-02-04T21:44:49Z

Written by "Doonesbury" cartoonist Trudeau, the series promises to mine current events from both the Republican and Democratic camps for comedy as the fictional senators gear up for election season. Amazon tests techie comedy 'Betas' in original programming push 2013-11-21T22:58:40Z

With Black Lightning we see an internal weighing of power against the establishment, with fictionally manipulated motivations that elevate brutality as justice. On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

As production winds down on Paper Towns in mid-December, Green has started giving the cast and crew some wrap gifts: maps that feature paper towns, the fictional cities cartographers create as copyright traps. 14 Things You Learn on the Set of 'Paper Towns' 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The fictional story centers on Marcus’s desire to track down his dad, who left the family years earlier. Author hopes his new book will help kids learn more about Puerto Rico 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Wallace: When I play Shakespearean characters, because those characters are largely fictional and subject to interpretation, if I’m playing the Scottish king, I’m just a black Scottish king. Scrooge summit 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

In both fictional and real-life cases, the outbreak originates in China and in each instance bats are implicated. What can we learn about coronavirus from watching Contagion? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

For the TV show, producers moved the setting from New England to fictional Chance Harbor, Wash. Williamson said the change was made for several reasons, including logic. 'The Secret Circle' looks for magic in Washington setting 2011-09-07T21:42:07Z

No matter which side you fall on for this fictional film, it’s based on a morbidly intriguing real-life tale. Review: ‘Bridgend,’ on a Mysterious Cluster of Suicides in Wales 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

We've all got to go sometime — excuse my bluntness — but unlike many who find themselves in the fictional Knickerbocker Hospital in the city of New York in the year 1900, this patient will live. 'The Knick' is a bloody trip back to 1900-style doctoring 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The fictional character is less direct and less charismatic than her creator. The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

He said that he hopes the show keeps Apu in the fictional town of Springfield. Hank Azaria Will No Longer Voice Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

“I’m not even reading anymore,” George, who edited a fictional magazine named Edition in the first two seasons, said in one episode. Hitchens and Plimpton Inspire ?Bored to Death? 2011-11-02T23:45:06Z

In the nine fictional years since that moment, Peggy has grown to become Don's protégé, his rival and for a time his de facto boss. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Sally Hawkins stars as a fictional character plopped into the true story of a worker’s strike at a Ford motor company sewing plant in the Dagenham area of London. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s a natural progression, then, that she would begin to separate herself from her work, and put her ideas in the mouths of fictional characters. Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Fred Willard says he enjoyed playing a fictional talk show host's sidekick on ABC's "Castle." Willard finds late-night TV murder on `Castle' 2010-04-12T08:56:00Z

A game has a winner and a loser, whether it’s beach volleyball or a fictional murder investigation, and in “Columbo” there was never any doubt who was going to win. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Columbo’ Approach to NBC’s Late-Night Olympics Coverage 2012-08-10T16:18:28Z

The film is an adaptation of the book which tells the fictional story of a school massacre, committed by Kevin. VIDEO: Swinton on We Need To Talk About Kevin 2011-05-17T15:10:47Z

The Black Panther book itself is so steeped in Wakanda, the fictional African country of his birth. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Creating Black Superheroes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Alex Wolff stars as Tom, a sophomore at a Southern liberal arts school shirking his studies to romp and roughhouse with his fraternity brothers in the fictional Kappa Nu Alpha. The Tribeca Festival Has a Story to Tell 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

He also appeared as himself in another sitcom, “Spin City,” which starred Michael J. Fox as an adviser to a fictional New York City mayor. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

The fictional story, set in Spain in an unspecified era, centers on the young Almira. Music Review: Operamission Performs Handel’s ‘Almira’ at Gershwin Hotel 2012-05-30T22:29:39Z

Dave Eggers, in his 2013 novel “The Circle,” addressed the moment—the South Bay in an age of high-tech fever—using a purely fictional approach. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The show, which tells true-to-life Katrina experiences through fictional characters, is taping its third season. Mardi Gras Indians on display at Jazz Fest 2012-05-04T15:13:40Z

The novel follows Tessa Johnson, a 16-year-old who adores romance novels so much that she writes fictional love stories of her own. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the background of scenes, the news is reported almost entirely on two fictional cable channels, one of which blames every problem on Democrats, the other on Republicans. Review: Alien Ants Become Washington Insiders in ‘BrainDead’ 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Like all fictional worlds, this Des Moines consists of a combination of geography and subjectivity. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Creating a ‘Hamlet,’ of Sorts, in Eastern Slovakia “Gypsy,” a fictional portrait of an impoverished Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia, offers a mostly depressing picture of a marginalized Middle European culture living in squalor. | 'Gypsy': ‘Gypsy,’ by Martin Sulik, Fictional Portrait of the Roma 2012-06-26T21:20:58Z

The judge reminded him the main character, a drug-addicted doctor, is fictional. Jury selection nears end in Anna Nicole Smith case 2010-08-03T20:37:00Z

Seven years later, Hanks and Greengrass turned to a historical setting — and a fictional story — with this spare western. What’s on TV This Week: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Yannick’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The second season begins with Lasso’s fictional London team relegated from the elite division, its aged champion played by Goldstein retired and the team’s arrogant hotshot played by Phil Dunster far away. Underdog soccer series ‘Ted Lasso’ finds itself the big dog 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The series stars Aidan Turner as a young Leonardo da Vinci in a fictional version of the real painter’s life. What’s on TV This Week: ‘House of the Dragon’ and U.S. Gymnastic Championships 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

On the second floor, real paramedics and nurses rub shoulders with actors dressed as the white-coated medical staff of the fictional coastal town of Southcliffe. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z

The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has recreated that fictional town, and its spirit, in “The Grinch’s Holiday Workshop,” an installation that is as much an art studio as it is an exhibition. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 30-Dec. 6 2012-11-29T23:33:06Z

Seldom has a fictional family been so lovingly or richly imagined. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

Member Berries, for those unfamiliar with the fictional fruit, play an important role in this season of “South Park.” Refuge in Reagan nostalgia: Underwhelming “Killing Reagan” longs for a mythical past 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Most have done so for playing specifically black characters, either historical or fictional. Racial barriers still hold back Hollywood's black talent 2014-02-26T01:14:44Z

In Greater Clements, a fictional backwater and the locus of a tragic footnote to mining history, the playwright depicts a locality literally wiping itself off the map. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Many fans are eagerly anticipating a return to the fictional world of Middle-earth with next week's general release of the first movie in "The Hobbit" trilogy. AP Interview: Jackson, cast discuss 'The Hobbit' 2012-12-07T09:31:05Z

Dennis Haysbert played the future President of South Africa after wrapping up four seasons of 24 as the fictional President of the United States. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

When both "Mr. Robot" and the audience lived in 2015, the fictional dystopia it presented felt heady and unconventional. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

As the book begins, Florence is 26 and working as an assistant at the fictional Forrester Books, a publishing house in New York. In ‘Who Is Maud Dixon?,’ a Dream Job Leads to a Twisty Nightmare 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Maybe this is why representation matters: loving a fictional character is the gateway drug for cherishing the real people they represent. K-dramas cured my prejudice against Asian men 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” uses fictional narrative, uses essays. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

British Prime Minister Theresa May features in Elf’s fictional nightmares dressed in a clown outfit and huddled down a drain with her government. British comic Elf Lyons makes economics a laughing matter 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

It's not often that a fictional character appears on a late-night talk show to promote a real-life actress playing a different fictional character. 'Khaleesi' appears on 'Tonight Show' to promote Kristen Wiig's movie 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The content is true but the setting fictional: Zywulska struggling to tell her story to a tape recorder during a sleepless night. 'Another Sunrise' a powerful telling of Holocaust survivor's story 2012-05-15T16:51:06Z

They are, in so many ways, fictional creations no matter how much they are based on fact. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-05-11T17:00:02Z

In the movie’s fictional present day, tensions are rising between Polynesian authorities and the French government, which administers the region as an overseas territory. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Bran Castle is probably the most touristy spot in Transylvania thanks to its completely dubious connections with both the fictional and historic Dracula. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z

She allows the 1970s music and the fictional Jesse Parrish to enter the novel lightly, too, through reminiscences, lyrics, clippings and descriptions of photographs. Deborah Shapiro’s ‘The Sun in Your Eyes’: A musical whodunit 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Today’s pop-culture cookbooks are heavily researched tomes about their fictional worlds. What Do Marvel Characters Eat? Pop-Culture Cookbooks Have Answers, and Rapt Audiences. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The brand's most notorious shirt featured an illustration of the "Wong brothers" who wore matching conical hats and advertised a fictional laundry service. 6 shocking revelations from Netflix's new Abercrombie & Fitch doc 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

The first episode of the final season contains impolitic jokes about two fictional mass shootings. ‘Veep’ Toasts Its Final Season 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

For some reason, I can’t stop fretting about the future male heir of a fictional English estate. Downton Abbey Character Quiz 2012-01-05T21:24:10Z

We’re even introduced to the fictional historian who compiled the file, and given the transcript of a podcast interview in which she talks about her research. An Unapologetically Feminist Western Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The stories are all real-life — no fictional spies like James Bond. I Spy at New York’s Museum of Deception 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

But JGL is busy in the fictional Snowden’s early days, writing, “I’m just honored and excited to be doing a soldier sequence with Oliver. I keep saying to myself: “f-, this guy directed Platoon!” Here's Your First Look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

In muddling the real and the fictional in this way, Kiš is not playing games for play's sake. A brief survey of the short story part 42: Danilo Kiš 2012-08-02T15:03:20Z

In her introduction to the 1929 “Omnibus,” Sayers had lamented the state of the fictional female detective. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

That probably says less about Conrad than it does about the continuing relevance of terrorism as a subject for fictional examination. Review: ‘The Secret Agent’ Is Reimagined on AcornTV 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The fictional world championship of the fictional sport invented by J.K. Harry Potter returns! J.K. Rowling reveals boy wizard at age 34 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Foa jumped at the chance to fill his 11 weeks off from solving fictional crimes with Jonathan Tolins’ one-man play, even if he says some of his CBS co-stars thought he was nuts. ‘NCIS’ star Barrett Foa goes into ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

So forget about fictional little green Martians invading Earth. Where to stay on Mars? Robots could create living quarters before humans arrive. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Beauty Is a Wound,” set in the fictional coastal town of Halimunda, spans more than half a century. A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, his fictional alter ego was growing into a legend around the West. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Set after the Napoleonic wars, “Traveler” tells the story of Hans, a lonely wanderer, who stops for the night in Wandernburg, a fictional town on the shifting borders of Saxony and Prussia. Andrés Neuman’s New Novel Is ‘Talking to Ourselves’ 2014-04-16T20:50:36Z

Their fictional studio had fallen on hard times and borrowed money from a cutthroat competitor. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

The fictional Jews in these Roth tales are every bit as bigoted toward African Americans as their white gentile counterparts. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Like its inspiration, there’s a group akin to Anonymous that threatens to publish a video taken the night of the fictional assault. “Every ounce of homophobia I ever experienced was firmly rooted in sexism” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The fictional dead rolled on and on, and Djawadi, beaming, played his happy tune. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

I think that’s a re-creation of the loss of my own son, and I think that’s why I was able to follow that fictional girl’s emotions as she searched for a lost child. Lois Lowry on ‘The Giver’ and what she regrets in her new book, ‘Looking Back’ 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Even when not at the height of her powers, Tyler offers a dose of fictional solace and sustenance that few contemporary writers can provide. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

Still, she took time in her acceptance speech to note the uncomfortable resemblance of the current political scene to the fictional one in "Veep." Surprises, sure things and Trump joke at Emmys 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The YouTube video shows an out-of-work Davis - more than a year after the film was announced - taking a fictional call from Abrams who has finally offered him a part in the new movie.. Warwick Davis in new Star Wars film 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Jarvis better serves his goal of restoring the progenitor of “Pickwick” to his rightful stature in several overwrought but effective fictional scenes that depict an arrogant Dickens goading a distraught Seymour. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

"I'm way more comfortable with 'The Crown' than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself . . . They don't pretend to be news — it's fictional." The queen was apparently a fan. So, where does "The Crown" go from here? 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The second is the fictional tale of a video game in which players must escape an information dictatorship where every human emotion turns into sunlight. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

But maybe anxiety over a fictional fungus reflects a flickering awareness that we are, in fact, asking a bit too much of them. Mushrooms Aren’t Here to Destroy Us — Or to Save Us 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Reagan is Minishonka, part of a fictional tribal community with a reservation nearby Rutherford Falls, and in Nathan's view of the town's founding it was the white settlers who built the area. Yes, Native American culture exists, and "Rutherford Falls" digs into our collective "blind spots" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s an entertaining read that draws more inventiveness from character development than it does from the fictional technology. ‘O.K., Google, Make Me Happy’: In This Novel, Technology Is a Panacea 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The film explores themes of the battle to find a balance in the Force, the supernatural energy that runs through the fictional “Star Wars” galaxy. 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' premieres with tribute to late Carrie Fishe 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Between 1984 and 1987, he collaborated on the syndicated newspaper strip “Benchley,” which revolved around a fictional assistant to President Ronald Reagan. Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Still, even with this novel’s flaws, White remains an important writer in both his fictional and confessional tales of his own fraught era. Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film follows a police sergeant, played by Edward Woodward, who goes to the fictional Scottish island of Summerisle to search for a missing girl. VIDEO: Wicker Man 'finished' after 40 years 2013-09-30T14:29:04Z

Despite the oft-criticized escalation of fictional violence, we are still appropriately horrified by the real thing. Ray Rice video shows where we draw line on violence 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

When the fictional cartoon teenagers reached No. 1 with “Sugar, Sugar” in 1969, a garage band that only existed in two dimensions was suddenly vibrating the three-dimensional air from the top of the charts. On a scale of Monkees-to-Gorillaz, how should we evaluate fictional music? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

According to the Independent's Paul Taylor, however, Conway's "strategy" of including fictional elements within the narrative "backfires". Diana play 'clunky' and 'clueless' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The USA Network’s political drama “Political Animals,” with Sigourney Weaver as a fictional version of Mrs. Clinton, lasted a single season. Hillary and Bill Clinton Inspire Musical Theater 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

However, author Martin Walker has other plans, not always pleasant, for his fictional town of St. Denis. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z

The fictional character is described on his website as "Scotland's most respected man of letters". TV show for Bob Servant character 2012-02-17T10:52:33Z

This is the first fictional feature you’ve made in 15 years. Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Like most of her classmates in her Paris kindergarten, Jane is obsessed with the Disney film “Frozen,” set in the fictional Nordic kingdom of Arendelle. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Later, I learned that many of the characters Ms. Orlandersmith portrays are fictional composites. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Animal Farm,” published in 1945, was Orwell’s opening fictional salvo in his battle for inconvenient truths, an allegory that suggests how the tyrannical one-party state Oceania in “1984” came into being. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Soli also gives us Anne Cummins, a 15-year-old settler’s daughter, held for years by the Cheyenne, a fictional character who represents a composite of real captive women. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

At the time of her death, she was writing and hoped to direct a movie about a Jane Austen fan who switches places with one of the British author's fictional characters. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

Watch your words on the subject of appearance and presence; be wary of identifying playfully fictional metaphors amid such serious national and global crises. Perspective | Can we get past the idea that politics is a reality show? Not if CNN has anything to do with it. 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

One could easily mistake “Little Girl” for a fictional drama that tends toward observation and realism. ‘Little Girl’ Review: Growing Up and Seeking Peace 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

He is once again the subject of Oscar buzz this season — and was nominated for a Golden Globe — for his performance in “Phantom Thread” as the fictional designer Reynolds Woodcock. Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

A self-described “huge nerd,” and the head of editorial for The Ringer, Rubin has an inexhaustible passion for — and near-encyclopedic knowledge of — many of the most popular fictional universes of the last century. In the Land of Too Much Television, This Nerd Is Queen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Sunset Song” is adapted from Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel, set mostly on the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in northeastern Scotland in the years before World War I, and considered a British literary classic. Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The musical, set in the fictional River City, Iowa, is sometimes mounted as a sendup of homespun values, Bruni says. Casting coup: Jessie Mueller to play Marian in upcoming ‘Music Man’ at Kennedy Center 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

All modern music movies — fictional and documentary, rock and soul and country — are essentially "This Is Spinal Tap." "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

But instead of griping about how the world inconveniences him, fictional Kenya obsesses over how the world sees him – specifically, the unfair weight and scrutiny of the white gaze. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

But the aptly named Preacher, cook at Jack's Bar, the riverfront grill of the beloved, fictional place, basically delivers the entire town at one time or another from certain death, a downward spiral, or heartache. Hot for Preacher: Why "Virgin River" must protect its selfless rescuer at all costs 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Stories From the Tenants Downstairs” takes place at Banneker Terrace, a fictional apartment in Harlem. Family, Home and Heartbreak in Three Debuts 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jolie’s film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” depicts a fictional romance between a Bosnian Muslim woman and a Serbian officer, and is to open in the United States on Dec. 23. ArtsBeat Blog: Ahead of Its Release, Jolie's War Film Draws a Call for a Ban, and Praise 2011-12-13T14:30:24Z

"The new mystery is to be kickstarted by the murder of Ray Caspar, City Manager of a fictional Californian city," they write. True Detective season two: every casting rumour to date 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

In this electric fusing of fictional characters and historical figures, Hill lights that era ablaze. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

With fictional characters interwoven with historical figures – Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky – and set against the McCarthy era in the US, it sounds as though it has all the ingredients for another great novel. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

But he was on both sides of the lens — directing and acting — for this Agatha Christie adaptation, in which he plays the fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Oratorio’ and ‘Dexter: New Blood’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Someone once said that the key to making a fictional couple click is in finding one person everyone wants to be and matching them with someone everyone wants to do. How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Much of Dinh Q. Lê's art is driven by this sense of the unresolvable, of competing narratives — personal experience, collective memory, historical record, fictional accounts, propaganda and more. Dinh Q. Lê at Shoshana Wayne Gallery: Unspooling the horrors of Vietnam 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

From abusing patients to stealing from work, the fictional orderly, tasked with assisting hospital nursing staff in care and safety, is often deeply disturbing. "Stranger Things" and the helpful orderly tap into our fear about what makes a villain truly scary 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

I suppose, too, that after writing “History of a Suicide,” I wanted to escape into a fictional world unlike my own, and I found it to be liberating. Talking with Jill Bialosky about writing, editing and her new novel, 'The Prize' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Marshals on Friday while playing a fictional villain on the set of a low-budget horror movie. Fugitive Bank Robber Nabbed While Acting in Horror Movie 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Later this month, Stewart begins work in Los Angeles on "Blunt Talk," in which he plays fictional British media personality Walter Blunt. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

I saw a story about Mark Twain — it was not his biography, it was a fictional piece with actors. David Lee Roth Is Letting His Art (Mostly) Do the Talking 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Aside from the fact that he is a fictional character, Adonis’ status as an athlete and an entertainer in the film also speaks to a double standard that exists in these situations. White “Creed” fans, pay attention: This is not just another feel-good, underdog sports movie 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

But both are fictional constructs, drawing on ideas borrowed from religion, philosophy, poetry and the arts. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us

Then there was their take on the Greater London Council, with Ken Livingstone portrayed by a fictional Charles Bronson. Comic Strip returns with Tony Blair on the run in Channel 4 film noir comedy 2011-08-26T18:40:01Z

Extensive newspaper clippings, book excerpts and, notably, another comic book — all of them hailing from Moore’s fictional world — appear throughout the “Watchmen” issues. Actually, maybe HBO shouldn’t adapt “Watchmen” at all 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

On the realisation the man was in fact one of Ngugi's fictional characters, copies of the book were seized and destroyed. Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z

The beasts of Westeros, the fictional land in which these series are set, owe a debt to these tales. An introduction to the stories and British history that inspired the beasts of "House of the Dragon" 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

It was a darkly comical sight, given the gravitas of the handmaids’ fictional existence. The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Am I really publicly announcing my devotion to a fictional character here at the Regal Cinemas E-Walk? Riff: The Regrets of a Semiprofessional Potterphile 2011-08-14T03:33:02Z

The first film was structured to convey the page-turning immediacy of a comic book, divided into five short, discrete tales taken from a fictional comic called Creepshow. How a ‘Walking Dead’ Guru Brought ‘Creepshow’ Back to Life 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

It is just that almost none of them have been fictional, whether made in Hollywood or through independent financing. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

In the words of our reviewer, Alida Becker, this novel is a “captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean” to the real women who worked thanklessly on the first Oxford English Dictionary. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Part satire, part historical fiction, both versions are told from the point-of-view of the fictional character Henry Shackleford, who introduces himself after telling us that Brown rescued him from slavery as a boy. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Now he’s working in a new form: the fictional podcast. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The presiding genius of fictional innovation is Laurence Sterne, the 300th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated this year. At last – a books prize that rewards innovation 2013-01-25T19:30:01Z

"The Whispering Dark" is that book, a dark academia that transports the reader to fictional Godbole University where Delaney Meyers-Petrov is new, recently accepted into a program that trains students to move between parallel worlds. Books for hard-to-shop-for tweens and teens, from Star Wars and Harley Quinn to gothic horror 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

These might be fictional groups, but their names would fit right in on the roster of pun-heavy collegiate vocal ensembles. Make Your Own Pitch Perfect A Cappella Group Name 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Two centuries after Jane Austen’s death, the only acceptable happy ending to a fictional story about a single woman is one involving marriage. Hadley Freeman: single women, bag that man now! 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Maybe he was inspired to write his fictional — and rather learned and literary — narrative by the prospect of being a published author at the age of 10,” Ms. Spanier suggested. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Never mind that this better Atticus is fictional; my home state has learned to grab admiration where it can. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

This season trades in the Louisiana bayou and the occult for a fictional California town called Vinci and focuses on corruption in the transportation industry. Here's What to Expect From 'True Detective' Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

In fact, Usher more or less concedes this record forays into a new musical sphere, and much of the record is storytelling from a fictional standpoint, rather then a personal diary. Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z

The film, like the very best satire, often seems more doc than mock — Williams, Evert and especially McEnroe remain deliciously straight-faced as they describe the fictional characters and situations. HBO's '7 Days in Hell' finds a hilarious match in Samberg, Harington 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The U.K.’s poor performance is referenced in the movie, with Lemtov saying the fictional British entry, Julia J, is “quite good, but everybody hates U.K., so zero points.” Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Its characters are granted space to change and grow — something we demand very strictly of fictional people, if less often of real ones. Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

It's standard to marvel at the amounts of energy and time that can be covered over the fictional sprint distance, but Pearlman is gold medal class at such compressed athleticism. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z

Mr. Willis said that he did his most painstaking work on “Zelig,” a mock documentary about an fictional character who surfaces in historic newsreels with figures ranging from Babe Ruth to Adolf Hitler. - The Washington Post

Clinton Greenspan is a nimble nice guy as the street thief Aladdin, and the actors playing the rest of the denizens of the fictional Agrabah hit their villainous or comic marks. Review | The whiz-bang ‘Aladdin’ at the Kennedy Center still has problems to solve 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

The fictional journal, Kirkus continued, was rife with “literary pork-barreling” and “the utter incompetence and gratuitousness that goes under the term ‘editorial judgment.’” Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

As he lost the ability to write on a computer, he turned to a dictation system that allowed him to keep producing fictional works, his agent Colin Smythe said. Terry Pratchett, author of ‘Discworld’ fantasy series, dies at 66 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

In the novel, we mingle with several writers who gather at the fictional island, and together they present a Grisham’s-eye view of what fellow authors look like to a superstar. Plot Twist! John Grisham’s New Thriller Is Positively Lawyerless 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

One user reported a fictional murder from Netflix’s “House of Cards,” while another slapped a Crate & Barrel in Clarendon with a “sketchy” rating. SketchFactor: Starting with its name, safety-focused app leaves many uneasy

Per IMDb, "Karen" is the story of "a racist, entitled white woman in the South" who "terrorizes her new Black neighbors," which doesn't actually sound all that fictional. New horror flick “Karen” already causing backlash as a “Jordan Peele-knockoff” 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Dickens draped his tale of Coketown, a fictional Victorian factory city, with contempt for a wide range of societal ills: rampant industrialization and pollution, worker exploitation and widening income gaps, even England’s rigid divorce laws. 2010-02-16T22:09:00Z

She’s speaking to her own fictional audience, and possibly to us, too. The Author Elizabeth Strout on ‘Lucy Barton’ and How Her Characters Come Into Being 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a little uncomfortable to find oneself chuckling along with even a blatantly fictional simulacrum of such a figure: Madoff opens the play with a light-bulb joke. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

“His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters.” 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

This is most obvious in "Lovers Rock," a fictional, sway through house party in 1980. "Education" culminates Amazon's "Small Axe" film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

After a decade of portraying a fictional version of herself, the actress is refusing to give up the dream that America will accept her just the way she is. Lifetime greenlights reality show about Roseanne's nuts 2011-02-15T16:35:00Z

Something similar can be said of "Superpower," Penn's latest documentary that he co-directed with Aaron Kaufman, although its status as a propaganda piece isn't sublimated within a fictional narrative. Sean Penn's "Superpower" renews Zelenskyy's relationship with Hollywood to sell the politics of war 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Ian Fleming adored women, fast cars, golf, martinis and cards, and he cheerfully assigned these same hobbies to his most famous fictional creation, Agent 007. Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

In “Submission,” the head of a fictional Muslim Brotherhood party allies with the Socialists to defeat the National Front, led in the novel — as in reality — by Marine Le Pen. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

They are forced to jump "into" the classic adventure stories to steal famous fictional artefacts such as the map in Treasure Island, using a gadget called the Nautilus. Readers "jump into" classics in publishing venture 2011-06-13T23:06:45Z

I threw it open to the index, feverishly searching for Butterbeer, the fictional drink from the "Harry Potter" books and movies. Serve a feast fit for Hogwarts with 'Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook' 2010-10-25T22:32:00Z

And so far this season, it’s his “Argo” co-star Alan Arkin who has received the lion’s share of precursor nominations, for playing a bombastic — and fictional — studio executive. The Carpetbagger: De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson Are Supporting Actor Hopefuls 2012-12-19T23:28:11Z

Dexter Morgan has abandoned warm and bustling Miami for the fictional small town of Iron Lake, New York. Showtime’s ‘Dexter: New Blood’ tests monstrous family bonds 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

For most actors playing fictional characters, role research tends to consist of watching a few similar movies, maybe reading a book or two. Julianne Moore works to find the person inside the struggle 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The fictional Shay vacations several times a year with her husband, Senna, in a flamboyant house he had built on a beach in Madagascar. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Set in the tiny fictional town of Vinci, the story rests on a similar web of corruption. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Watching someone hang, even a fictional someone, isn’t ever pleasant. This Week in Fiction: Stephen King 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Today, “Jim Crow” refers to the laws that codified government-enforced segregation, but the name originally came from a popular minstrel character — a fictional black man who would act like a buffoon in public places. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The film follows a group of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, and who now gather to fight the evil Deviants, a fictional race of humanoids. Salma Hayek felt like the mom on the set of ‘Eternals’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The play, “Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers,” portrayed in fictional terms the legal fight by The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers over the vigorous objections of the Nixon administration. ArtsBeat: An Unusual Theater Revival in China: American Play About Press Freedom 2013-06-04T13:13:00Z

Marvelously interactive, the fictional chorine talks directly to its anonymous audience as surely as the artist does in an online chat room. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

That changed with the 1975 publication of “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a fictional World War II plot to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ author Jack Higgins dead at 92 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

Renee works as a peon at a fictional cosmetics company, and as she rises through the ranks thanks to her I-think-I’m-hot-now pluck, she convinces the brand to incorporate self-acceptance into its marketing strategy. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Happily, it's all just a fictional construct – and just as well, as this is not only the funniest, but also the most weirdly moving and celebratory show I've seen on this year's fringe. Pappy's: Last Show Ever – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T14:26:35Z

Thirty-three and left to my own devices, I reverted to the miserable girl who found refuge in TV watching because I did not feel seen, seeking fictional companionship in the face of isolation. What it's like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

The filter, as Didion painstakingly argued, created a fictional narrative so vast that few could escape it. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

“Wormwood,” Errol Morris’s new movie — a hybrid of documentary and fictional techniques drawn from blurred passages in the historical record — circles around a single painful, mysterious fact. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

In July, she returned to work on "Scandal," in which she plays Olivia Pope, a fictional fixer for Washington's elite. Kerry Washington: 'Two pregnancies have been very different' 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

In lieu of that fictional sequel, consider revisiting this original installment in the series, in which Marty’s greatest worry is whether he can save himself from being stranded in the past. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Brave New World’ and ‘Little Voice’ 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, the fictional plumber gains hooves and quadruples in size. Mario Can’t Be Super Without Psychedelic Power-Ups 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Each shake takes inspiration from the fictional witch sisters. Carvel's 'Hocus Pocus' milkshakes are here to help you count down to Halloween 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hugnet’s guide centers on a fictional town in Brittany called Trébaumec, whose name is a French pun that roughly translates as “good-looking guy.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mackenzie and his crew made their way through the hordes of drunken fans and the muddy tents, unassumingly inserting the fictional characters in the midst of real-life musicians and revelers. Movie Review: ?Tonight You?re Mine,? Directed by David Mackenzie 2012-05-10T23:01:42Z

In a bid to raise awareness of the issue, Schwimmer decided to make a fictional film tackling the subject. Trust issues 2011-07-08T07:24:09Z

The novel is the third in a series of six set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire, and depicts a tumultuous engagement. Julian Fellowes to Adopt Trollope Novel for TV 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

That show tended to lean into melodrama in the fictional high school where it was set, making Gripp think to herself, “They’d be fired; they’d be fired; that kid would be suspended.” Broken Lights, No Glue: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Has Teachers Talking 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

True stories that resemble fictional ones have a feel of mythicism to them, a blurring of the line between reality and legend that allows us to amplify our humble times into something worthy of fable. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

I wonder whether it’s just that his vision of victims is stuck in the fictional “Special Victims Unit” of NBC’s prime-time lineup. Perspective | Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

A: I was already thinking about doing something about a fictional contemporary dictator when the graphic novel crossed my radar. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

You can drop in on fictional characters trapped in isolated houses in out-of-the-way places. Review | You’re not alone: Thrillers and mysteries that also feature characters stuck in isolation 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

There are statues of three female fictional characters: Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose and William Shakespeare’s Juliet, who appears with Romeo. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

These fictional parties usually have a dramatic as well as a social function. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z

One figure, “The Captain,” scowling and with legs spread, is inspired by Marcus Garvey or the fictional Emperor Jones, both ambitious liberation fighters turned autocratic. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

A fictional version of the fund will be featured in the last season of the show. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ offers fans a way to give back 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

From Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, fictional orphans are lonely, misunderstood, often small and markedly different from the people who raise them, and all haunted by the question: Why? Books of The Times: ‘Y’ by Marjorie Celona 2013-01-09T19:43:08Z

And if they had had Twitter in those fictional kingdoms once upon a time, there probably would have been a lot of tweets like these: Why Benedict Cumberbatch's Engagement Is All About Us 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Burnett said all the business people being portrayed on reality shows might help counter the persistent image on fictional television of the executive as a villain, though Mr. Cuban didn’t entirely agree. Enough Wallowing, Reality TV Is Ready for Entrepreneurship 2011-03-28T01:29:28Z

The review is written as a mock letter to a fictional friend, Ossip. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

Plus they’re likely to tease what will happen to ever-pivoting fictional startup Pied Piper now that it’s a video chat company. The Comic-Con TV Shows We’re Most Excited About 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

I switched on the small television and settled in for a late night of sitcom-watching, pretending the fictional families portrayed on the screen were my reality. My mother, the drug addict 2014-03-31T23:00:00Z

Marks has his sights on buying UBA, the fictional TV network featured on the show. "The Morning Show" Season 3 confronts Jan. 6 and "the lies we tell ourselves" 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

As fictional characters go, Reacher is a little underspecified, which makes readers feel so proprietary about him: in our own heads, we help create the character. Tom Cruise as Lee Child’s Fictional Hero in ‘Jack Reacher’ 2012-12-07T13:00:00Z

Like their fictional counterparts, nonfiction films tend to obey conventions of genre, and in recent years most of them have followed a handful of familiar models. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

Castle Rock, Maine, is the fictional town that figured in King’s “The Dead Zone,” “Needful Things,” and dozens of other durable freakouts. “Castle Rock,” Reviewed: A Grab Bag of Stephen King Tropes Is Freshest When It Confronts the Real World 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Or: the real filmmaker retreats into his art, whereas his fictional counterpart is bold enough to make a scene, hurt some feelings and possibly risk his own comfort and career. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Even superficial examination of this film reveals myriad flaws, despite a compelling performance by Jeremy Irons as a fictional writer in a book also called “The Words.” Movie Review: ‘The Words,’ With Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Bradley Cooper 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z

What does his story say about the role movies and other fictional tales play in determining the course of our lives? How Twin Peaks led a fan into and out of trouble 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Don McKellar directed this comedy, set in the fictional town of Tickle Head. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z

Streep did in fact grow up in Summit, New Jersey, just five miles up the road from Brenda’s fictional house in Short Hills. Death and the Maiden: Meryl Streep’s Tribute to Philip Roth 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

In the latest season of the delightfully smart and progressive Netflix YA series, the members of the fictional Baby-Sitters Club are starting seventh and eighth grade, and are already active online. The dark side of child influencers examined on Netflix's "Baby-Sitters Club" 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

What I'm saying is that the fictional character Hannah would never get all that attention in the real world and no one would care if she's narcissistic or not simply because she is unattractive. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

He has pointed his erudition and imagination toward concrete advice on building sentences, using adjectives and structuring fictional works. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the challenge of depicting prominent public figures inhibited Mr. McCann’s ability to reimagine these chapters in their lives; perhaps his desire to place their actions within a fictional matrix posed narrative obstacles. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z

Even today, he sometimes is asked for autographs by adults still charmed by his endearing fictional doppelganger. His namesake had a terrible, horrible day, but Alexander Viorst is doing just fine

Named after the fictional child phantom, it’s a friendly alternative to ghosting. Ghosting, Caspering and six new dating terms you've never heard of 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

But Chizmar’s voice and sensibility dovetail neatly with King’s own distinctive style, and the book ultimately reads like a newly discovered chapter in King’s constantly evolving fictional universe. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

As Chastain observes, the one woman statue is of “a fictional character that a man wrote.” Jessica Chastain calls out New York City government: Why no woman statue in Central Park? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The fictional San Francisco radio station PARS-FM, where much of “Radio Dreams” is set, is a study in gray and yellow. Review: ‘Radio Dreams’ Builds a Spiritual Home for Stateless Souls 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Not content with the prospect of trying to prove the president mentally unfit or pressing for impeachment, the book’s fictional aides opt for another course of action: murder. Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

He creates stories from the ground up, fictional worlds, and then designs the equipment necessary to film them in 3D. Uncovering the "Secrets of the Whales," from beluga baby names to fascinating seafood preferences 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

This leads him to the town of Maardam — the fictional setting of all the stories in Nesser’s trilogy — where he also undertakes a translation of a final opus by a writer who’s committed suicide. ‘Intrigo: Death of an Author’ Review: Many Mysteries, Fewer Thrills 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

With “Hang the Moon,” which will be published on March 28, she is moving deeper into fictional territory. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

But then again, I'll never understand the fixation with a fictional teenage girl's facial structure, either. "The Last of Us" could change how Hollywood does video games, but hateful gamers make it difficult 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Diller created an indelible persona with her distinctive braying laugh, a cigarette holder, teased hair, outlandish costumes and a fictional lout of a husband she called Fang. Pioneering comedian Phyllis Diller dies at age 95 2012-08-20T19:49:12Z

Though fictional, this town reflects certain aspects of New England — like the plaques on older houses and patrician dropped “r”s — with absolute, flinty accuracy. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Rather than simply release movie trailers and posters advertising the film, the latest Hunger Games entry is releasing propaganda for the film’s fictional dictatorship, Panem. 'The Hunger Games' Releases Propaganda Trailer, Posters For 'Mockingjay' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

This story is fictional, the plot of a movie developed by students at the Ghetto Film School in the South Bronx, in a yearlong collaboration with the Frick. Young Moviemakers Meet Old Masters at the Frick 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

That’s the fictional part, in which the film’s real-life orphans play warriors of the spirit on a mythic journey in the natural world. Movie Review: Cambodian Orphans Star in ‘Still I Strive’ 2014-05-09T01:04:31Z

The character was on a mission to update his party, in part by urging elected officials, including his fictional party leader, not to wear ties. Trump vs. the Disappearing Tie 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The battle lines were then drawn between those who sneered at the naivete of readers who count fictional characters among their “friends,” and others who insisted that such sneering was elitist. Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

It brought with it the kind of diehard, narrow-minded nerdery that postulated a Stormtrooper shouldn’t be played by a black man because this fictional fighting force were all cloned from one, lighter-skinned, human descendant. John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame | Observer profile 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

“He said, ‘I caught Walter!’ ” recalling the fictional trout from “On Golden Pond.” Alaska’s Bristol Bay region is rightly renowned as a fishing Mecca 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

While the characters were fictional, Mr. Coles said he had been motivated to write the novel after Trayvon Martin, 17, was killed in Florida. Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

He created a fictional Minnesota town, Lake Wobegon, which featured in the show. 'Prairie Home Companion' renamed after Garrison Keillor's firing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

The top fictional character included in the kids’ stories last year was the U.K.’s own James Bond, but Superman and Batman topped the list this year, knocking agent 007 down to the No. 10 spot. And the Winner of the Child-Author's Competition Is … Lego, Universal Pictures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Then we played Top Ten Hits, this "pseudo-compilation album" and "retrospective requiem of all pop albums ever made" featuring 10 fictional bands, and guess what? New band of the day – Prince Rama (No 1,337) 2012-08-23T15:42:26Z

It feels like the ultimate expression of the belief, in an age of endless revivals and cinematic-universe expansions, that no fan’s curiosity about any corner of a fictional world should ever go unsatisfied. ‘Better Call Saul’ Is Great TV. Well, Part of It Is. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Consider the matter of the world's greatest fictional movie titles. Titles that take 2011-02-10T20:35:47Z

The fake documentary is airing on BAN, the fictional Black cable network from a season one killer that was equally a tribute to classic sketch comedies like "In Living Color" and a parody of BET. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Not so much a sitcom as a chat show set in a fictional family's house. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z

But he is preparing a fictional short film, using untrained actors, and he has been collecting footage to make a definitive first-hand documentary of the uprising. Lights, camera, revolution: the birth of Libyan cinema after Gaddafi's fall 2012-10-01T18:01:01Z

Mary Shelley It's been a while since Shared Experience, writer Helen Edmundson and director Polly Teale have come up with one of their award-winning shows, usually focused on a woman – fictional or real – in literature. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-08T23:05:29Z

Ellroy blended the facts of the case with fictional police officers and his own theories, which resulted in his 1987 breakout novel. James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Star Trek is a fictional universe that’s based almost entirely on optimism; it’s threaded throughout the concept. Is Star Trek Into Darkness Too Dark? 2013-05-17T22:17:31Z

She regularly hosted a “Sex and the City” Hotspots Tour, with destinations including the stoop of the Perry Street brownstone where the fictional Carrie Bradshaw lived and where tourists would constantly stop for selfies. One Love, Two Steps 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Stars Hollow, the fictional home of Gilmore Girls, the noughties TV series about a mother and daughter, is a quiet, eccentric town where nothing bad happens. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in the famed fantasy trilogy set in the fictional land of Middle-earth. 'Game of Thrones' actors among Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' cast 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

And no binding narrative emerges from the individual or collective interviews — rather than the unpersuasive fictional one. Review: 'The Thin Place' at Intiman ruminates on religion, lost and found 2010-05-24T23:08:00Z

Or, for a darker view of the future, there is Damien Hirst, who has taken over almost every room of the Borghese Gallery with a show of counterfeit antiquities from a fictional shipwreck. Alone in the Temporary New Ruins of Rome 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Plus it’s interesting to see how writers and actors conjure the real historical figures who begin to populate the fictional world as Jake makes his way toward Dallas. Review: In ‘11.22.63,’ an Appointment in Dallas 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

That volume was a fictional wizarding-school textbook; the film takes its supposed author, Newt Scamander, sends him back many years to when he was a young man, and transports him to America. J.K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Even so, there is a frisson whenever a fictional relationship spills off the edges of the screen like ale into an overfilled tankard. Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford: does it matter if movie romances are real? 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

“Black Panther” reimagines the classic comic book series about two cousins fighting for the throne of a fictional African superpower. If You Think the Oscars Have Gotten More Political, Here’s Why You’re Right 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

While documentaries easily shift perspective, moving from one witness to the next, the scope of the movement has, so far, thwarted most fictional storytellers. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

Her characters Ro and Benji are fictional, but Li drew on her feelings about her friendship with Katia to develop the close friendship in her book. A friendship is at the heart of ‘Clues to the Universe’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

But then he was back to his old fictional self again when he crossed paths with Jason. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Shrek Forever After'? Try other franchises' so-called 'final chapters' 2010-05-20T18:48:00Z

What wasn’t fictional was the national debate that the storyline sparked. Murphy Brown is coming back to TV: why America needs her more than ever 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

The character Reagan spoke of was found to be fictional years later according to Opposing Views. Trump's white male supporters may lose their food stamps 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

"The Collectors" saw the Danish and Nordic pavilions transformed into the residences of fictional art collectors, creating compelling stage sets populated with disturbing traces of the absent protagonists' lives. Elmgreen and Dragset plan mischief for V&A 2013-01-17T15:18:21Z

If you like bleak ensemble dramas, try “Blackstone,” a Canadian import set on a fictional First Nation reserve. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Her point is that even in a fictional setting, created from our collective 21st-century imagination, we seem – subconsciously or otherwise – to believe a 17% female representation is the natural state of affairs. Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Movie being promoted: V For Vendetta, a film best-known for its array of horrific accents and the fictional breakfast dish eggy in a basket. Gerard Butler's Pentagon briefing and other grandiose film campaigns 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

People often asked Ms. Davis for child-rearing advice, she said, because of Alice’s perceived wisdom when counseling the young, fictional Bradys. Ann B. Davis, 88, Dies; Comic Actress Played Maid on ‘Brady Bunch’ 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s quite a skill to make boring fictional characters interesting, but the Grossmith brothers do just this with Charles Pooter and his family, who reside in north London. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

"HACKS," described as a working title for the show, is being written by Guy Jenkin, co-creator of comedy series "Drop the Dead Donkey" set in the fictional offices of a TV news company. UK TV channel plans phone hacking comedy 2011-08-26T13:43:53Z

But some are happy to court the public's association them with the most popular of their fictional personas. "Hawkeye" reminds us why Jeremy Renner's archer is the least Avenger 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Pulitzer Prize-winner Vogel includes racism and prejudice, yet also goodness and tolerance, as a talented ensemble of 11 nimbly sings, dances and enacts multiple characters both historical and fictional. Review: 'A Civil War Christmas' is sweeping tale 2012-12-05T03:46:05Z

If HBO’s legal analysis is correct, then why did so many past works such as Any Given Sunday and The Replacements use fictional team names and logos? HBO's Ballers: Touchdown or Legal Fumble? 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The film's distributor, Summit Entertainment, issued its own statement on Tuesday reiterating the movie's claim that it is a "fictional account" about soldiers in the battlefield. "Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars 2010-03-03T12:33:00Z

Full of carefully researched detail, David is at once the tale of a fictional character, the story of a work of genius and an evocation of a particularly compelling moment in Italy's past. David by Mary Hoffman ? review 2011-07-29T21:55:01Z

The movie stars Kevin Costner as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver Jr., who races the clock to maneuver for the best players while dealing with upheaval in his personal life. 'Captain America' soars above 'Rio 2' birds to win box office 2014-04-13T20:11:41Z

The fictional marriage is dying and possibly already dead. Hey, Are You Looking at Me? Good. Now, Buzz Off. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

She dished out insults to her fictional husband, Fang, the same way that borscht belt comics mocked their wives. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z

Foxx, 45, who plays fictional President James Sawyer, said the role was a welcome change from his last one in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western about slave revenge "Django Unchained." Director Emmerich brings 'White House Down' with terrorism plot 2013-06-25T13:18:18Z

The Sony comedy thought to be at the center of the attack depicts a fictional assassination attempt on Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea. Sony insider -- not North Korea -- likely involved in hack, experts say 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Just like in the US, we are not seeing fictional female power brokers in popular films,” Smith said. Women scarce in films abroad, USC study finds 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

I think the central problem of the “Hunger Games” fictional universe is closely related to the sheer ingenuity of its construction. Katniss meets the new boss: The Tea Party, the Bolsheviks and the “Hunger Games” finale 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

We're not allowed to give undue prominence to any brands, so our graphics artist creates packaging for familiar products like baked beans and cornflakes with fictional names. TV's unsung heroes 2010-10-01T23:03:00Z

The talk between the duo sometimes evokes a surreal or absurdist reality; sometimes it morphs into reenacted historical episodes that may be fictional. Making a statement by putting a stamp on his art 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Jimmy is a fictional character and has no existence outside a few novels and a short story. Q&A: Roddy Doyle, author of ‘The Commitments,’ ‘The Guts’ 2014-02-08T00:56:37Z

The walls showcase colorful cereal boxes, plus some fictional "serial killers" rendered in cereal, while the shelves house various pieces of memorabilia from the 1980s and '90s. Can London's Cereal Killer Cafe provide the killer cereal? 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

I guess that's crossing the line, even when we're talking about massively irritating fictional characters, and given my last name it might get taken the wrong way. "One Day": A gimmicky, misbegotten love story 2011-08-18T17:19:00Z

Maybe greater confinement fueled our wanderlust or led us to seek comfort in nostalgia, to indulge in the wish fulfillment and possibility offered by the seemingly infinitely flexible fictional device that is time travel. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

Yet six fictional years after she flew to Reno with him, Betty lives in a fog of ennui, defined by her role as a wife and mother but yearning for more. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Vila-Matas is not above chewing up bits of the master, from the Dublin landmarks Joyce celebrated, to the various fictional techniques in Ulysses, to choice morsels of the work itself. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas - review 2012-06-15T21:55:05Z

His real-life son Mandela plays his fictional son, who is also one of his students. Movie Review: ?We the Party,? Directed by Mario Van Peebles 2012-04-06T00:32:21Z

Mr. Wardle brings you into this grabber of a story effortlessly with a lively, nimble mix of archival imagery, contemporary interviews and some unnecessary fictional re-creations. Review: The Surreal, Heartbreaking Case of ‘Three Identical Strangers’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

He brings the same relaxed professionalism to this fictional Charlie as he did to his last one, even as the Anger Management character comes with far more layers. Charlie Sheen's comeback sitcom Anger Management makes tepid debut 2012-06-29T14:39:03Z

These days, the question of who should be allowed to tell a story, whether fictional or fact-based, seems to hang in the air around many a work of literature. After Hurricane Katrina, How Do You Return Home When Home No Longer Exists? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Set in a fictional working-class Texas town, “Friday Night Lights” made it its business to upend the snooty presumptions of coastal provincialism. Critic?s Notebook: Down South, Where the Stereotypes Bloom 2011-07-21T22:20:50Z

“For me, the films that appear to be less fictional are just doing a better job of hiding their fictional aspects,” Greene said during a recent conversation about “Kate Plays Christine.” Documentaries like ‘Casting JonBenet’ mix fact and fiction. That just makes them more honest. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

“Utøya” is a dramatization of the 2011 terrorist attack on the eponymous Norwegian island and tracks the journey of a fictional protagonist from the moments just before the siege to its conclusion. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

When fueled by enduring political or psychological currents like nationalism and racism, such fictional narratives become the justification for war and genocide and other historical crimes. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Yet she contemptuously dismisses as hypocritical both fictional and real parents who treat league tables and Ofsted reports with caution and actively choose to send their children to local schools. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

All this connects cleverly to the fictional lives of Don, his glamorous ex-wife, Betty, his girlfriends and colleagues. Arty gift books on Stephen Sondheim, Apollo Theater, 'Mad Men' and more 2010-12-18T01:22:14Z

In both cases, the characters were the first African American and female president in the fictional US that 24 inhabited. Good news for Clinton: new season of Homeland features a female president 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

In many ways, Vince Gilligan and his creative team share a predicament with their fictional construct, and both run the risk of believing in their own press. “Breaking Bad,” Season five, episode one: The end begins 2012-07-16T11:15:00Z

In the insular world of comic books, “stories that matter” translates into “stories that appear to alter the status quo of an entire fictional universe or, at the very least, an important character’s place therein.” It’s Time We Realized That Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Is Not a TV Version of The Avengers 2013-10-15T20:16:52Z

It's insane to think of these fictional giants as actual people. Mark Doten's 'The Infernal' a darkly twisted take on Iraq war 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

No, yes it's definitely the quarantine . . . but I've reached that point on the extended social distancing spectrum where I've realized how much I've missed the zany exploits of fictional rich, entitled people. HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, Mr. Morellet turned his longtime hobby — drawing maps of fictional places — into a full-time art form. Up Close: Now Re-Mapping His Life 2011-05-18T18:00:47Z

The doors on the “set” lead to the actual lobby, where there’s a working popcorn machine and restrooms for the real and fictional movie “theaters.” How Long Is ‘The Flick’? It Depends on the Seats 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“It made me want to write a fictional letter from a Senegalese soldier.” He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

The crime shakes Nothar Park, a fictional Dominican enclave in Upper Manhattan. ‘Washed Out, White Out’: A Gentrification Story 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Lucky us” ends with a description of a photograph of the novel’s fictional family. Inspiration Information: Lucky Us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

"Between Shades of Gray" is a fictional story inspired by actual accounts and experiences of prisoners. Dark time in Lithuania told in `Shades of Gray' 2011-04-07T19:44:14Z

Enter the fictional Ms. Phelps with a plan to stock her team with misfits and over-the-hill veterans so that fans would stay away and trigger an attendance clause that would let her relocate to Miami. Margaret Whitton, ‘Major League’ Actress, Dies at 67 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ferver pointed out that “M3GAN,” like so many fictional portrayals of feminized androids, reflects our misogyny as much as the dangers of killer robots. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

We forgave the one in the White House and worshiped several of the fictional versions on TV and in the movie theater. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

A film titled Spike Island is now in production, built around a fictional band who make their way to the event without tickets, and have some kind of epiphany. Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z

Each narrator works on the fictional “Dublin Murder Squad,” and they appear in other books as partners or other minor characters. Murder, She Wrote 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Regalbuto sees the reboot as the chance for these fictional characters to say the things “that people want to say and haven’t been — a lot of things come out and cut through the baloney.” ‘Murphy Brown’ once sparked a feud with Dan Quayle. Now the reboot is courting one with Trump. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on an Amsterdam street in 2004 by a Dutch Muslim angered by his film "Submission," a fictional study of abused Muslim women. Threat to Letterman on Muslim forum 2011-08-17T22:29:08Z

He wasn’t the subject of a documentary, he was an artistic participant in a fictional world we were creating. Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane on 'Nerding Up' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

As Betty became a household name, the fictional cook and homemaker received so many letters that other employees had to be trained to reproduce that familiar signature. Betty Crocker turns 100 – why generations of American women connected with a fictional character 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

With real life horrors happening in the world, are there benefits to exploring fictional horrors? The Shyamalan Secret to Being Scary? It’s in the Blood 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Over more than three decades, the Italian cartoonist who goes by the single name Igort has written and drawn fictional, historical, biographical and experimental books, relatively few of which have been translated into English. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Frenchman’s Bend is fictional, described as an ugly park with “brown dirt and weeds too dumb to die and scraps of paper and brightly colored plastic bags, trash flitting across the scrub.” Book World: ‘Murder, D.C.’ by Neely Tucker 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Calvino was, of course, a Venetian, and the fantastical cities the novelist imagined in Invisible Cities were a homage to Venice itself; the least likely of all cities, fictional or real. Venice Biennale: castles in?the air 2010-08-30T20:31:00Z

One hesitates to graft biographical material on to a fictional work, especially considering that this book was written after the second world war. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov – review 2013-06-18T15:57:28Z

In a way we’re back to “The Big Broadcast,” with Crosby playing a fictional version of himself. DVDs: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know 2010-12-25T03:53:01Z

When you write about a fictional oppressed race of white people from the position of your present-day white privilege and do not acknowledge it, the results are messy. Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends 2012-08-27T13:00:01Z

Off the Shelf | ‘The Painted Word’ The Unknown Hipster, a blog started by the clever illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme, documents the fictional adventures of a shameless gate-crasher within international art and fashion circles. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

The resulting conversation touched on Díaz’s concern with race, his debt to the writings of women of color, and his fictional explorations of psychic and emotional decolonization. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z

Faced with complaints that his depiction of the factory workers as dark-skinned pygmies from Africa was racist, he changed the workers into Oompa Loompas, small people from a fictional country called Loompaland. As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

For years before he even began writing his novel, he painstakingly collected the banal and innocent objects that would pass through his fictional lovers’ hands. | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z

"Act of Valor": This fictional feature stars active-duty Navy SEALs on a rescue mission. Weekend Preview: family-fun fest, record and CD show 2012-02-22T22:48:10Z

Crafting "Dopesick" into an intriguing fictional narrative is no simple task, which is why the job fell to Strong, the guy who gave us "Recount" and later on, "Empire." "Dopesick" is an ineffective prescription for telling the story of the opioid crisis 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The BBC's coverage of the Games progressed rather more serenely than the fictional counterpart, catapulting one of its presenters, Clare Balding, into the television big league. Bafta nominations: three for Olympics – but four for Twenty Twelve 2013-04-09T20:43:43Z

At other times the detail feels too intricate: icicles hanging outside the young Bellow’s hospital window have fictional counterparts in “Herzog”. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

I found that so much of my taste derives from escapism and fictional universes. Porter Robinson Releases ‘Worlds,’ His First Album 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s what allows you to distinguish good behavior from bad, to orient yourself in a fictional world’s moral universe. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

The fictional changes on the show mirror the real changes in the industry, Witherspoon said. ‘The Morning Show’ Remakes Itself. Again. 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The story and characters are fictional but Keshavarz, who wrote and directed the film, said they are based on real-life experiences among her friends. "Circumstance" sheds light on gay life in Iran 2011-08-24T12:33:38Z

Now she lives on a boat in the Anglo-Scottish Republic, moonlighting as her fictional twin brother, who is a private investigator and also her chaperon. Best new science fiction and steampunk

Real conspiracies and fictional conspiracy theories have blended into a Mike Kelley-approved mélange, and everything really does seem connected. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

To commemorate the publication of "Mockingbird," the university is establishing the Harper Lee Prize of Legal Literature for fictional books that show the positive effects attorneys can have on society. Holder: 'Mockingbird' has lessons for terror fight 2010-09-21T23:02:00Z

Lions Gate also created a Capitol Couture website, an online magazine set in the fictional world of Panem, that showcased the styles explored in the film, from the Districts to the Capitol. 'Hunger Games' designer finds high-fashion muse in Katniss Everdeen 2013-11-25T23:36:54Z

In many ways, the lack of diversity in the depiction of eating disorders mirrors the lack of fictional characters of color who struggle with their mental health. Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. 'Roseanne' star says revived show reflects Trump's America 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

“Sweet America” and “When I Dream of Heaven,” both published in 2000, are fictional accounts of Italian immigrants in New York in the 1890s. Steven Kroll, an Author of Children?s Books, Dies at 69 2011-03-15T05:19:44Z

The soap, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is among the longest-running programs on British television. British soap opera star denies child sex charges 2013-05-02T15:49:07Z

Is it re-accumulating in the art, like the fictional dolphins and swans returning to Venice? Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s this aspect of her novel — in which actual kidnapping victims and their families intersect with fictional victims — that some readers may find discomfiting. Review | In her novel ‘When the Stars Go Dark,’ Paula McLain draws on abuse cases, including her own 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

In these photographs, the sky appears in dreamy pastel hues, thanks to photo editing, replicating the sense of “fictional reality” the authors say permeates their journeys through the city as foreign visitors. Review | A rare glimpse of North Korea 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The fictional child’s father is a former boy-band singer who lives off the grid on a canal boat — which, Ryan stressed, her ex does not. A Sitcom for Families With ‘Funny Shapes’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Each franchise is actually quite similar in its fictional setting. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z

What fictional characters would you like to see join the scene? 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Vanessa's Sin and Obsession 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

He’s the fictional guide to LOS Kids, the new series for children ages 3 through 7 from the Little Orchestra Society. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The town in the shocker “Bacurau” is fictional, a bit magical, at once ordinary and otherworldly. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

And there will be those whose fictional tastes demand a more generous squeeze of lemon. The Flask by Nicky Singer - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z

She eschews the black leather edginess or evening wear elegance of the traditional fictional assassin for bright colors, wild prints, fun outfits that often read as young. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

It also shows that fictional role models can have cultural impacts both good and bad. The missing ingredient in fighting climate change: positive fictional role models 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

“The borders between documentary, fictional and experimental films are very blurred for me,” said Huang Weikai, 38, who trained as a landscape painter before turning to cinema. Indie Films From a Land Short on Independence 2011-02-17T22:07:59Z

Pospisil asked the fictional Kelly if she ever wondered what her public silence following her own harassment incidents meant to the women who came after her. Megyn Kelly says she did ‘twirl’ before Roger Ailes, too 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Maybe Hudson, somewhere within his heart, actually felt less empowered than the imaginary rival he spun into reality, a fictional creation whose Chinese name would deliver him places his own could not. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Girl With a Pearl Earring looks gorgeous, and does a fine job of historical accuracy round the edges of its fictional plot – but it's a bit too much like watching paint dry. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

And in accordance with the national ethos, all fictional storytelling — whether on the page, the stage or the screen — is outlawed. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The other meta-narrative hanging over “Charm City” was “The Wire,” David Simon’s acclaimed fictional television series about Baltimore. A film about the police and the ‘policed’ in Baltimore makes a run for the Oscars 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Standing out gloriously even from this colorful cast is Queen Elizabeth, by far Holden’s most winning fictional creation in these pages. Review | Wendy Holden’s ‘The Royal Governess’ is spirited entertainment that revisits Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

She shows up in fictional Chance Harbor, Wash., after a family tragedy with no knowledge of her bewitching abilities. The CW invites you into its 'Secret Circle' 2011-09-15T19:10:04Z

There were ups and downs among the fictional offerings, in competition and out. A Sundance Festival Sampler 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

For Roberts’ first meeting with her new fictional child, she invited him to move into a guest bedroom in her home in California and come along to her kids’ soccer games. 'I wish I had her cheeks': Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges on their family affair 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

For many, the name Oxford conjures up images of its venerable university and fictional super-sleuth Inspector Morse. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

So I spoke to hundreds of women of all ages and races, and wrote a series of fictional monologues inspired by the things I heard. How we made: The Vagina Monologues 2013-02-04T17:48:44Z

“No,” Roth’s fictional avatar argues in “Operation Shylock,” “a man’s character isn’t his fate; a man’s fate is the joke that his life plays on his character.” Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

These are two things that can be frightening and bewildering — especially when mixed — both in our own world and in Stephen King’s fictional ones. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Independent Lens’ and ‘Night Court’ 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

The man appears to have less self-awareness than the fictional male models of “Zoolander.” Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb 2012-08-06T21:30:00Z

“It’s a fictional film, but what it’s based on happens all the time.” The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

At the same time, factual and fictional narratives, and the distance between them, has become one of the key issues of the age. John Kerry: 'People want a future. The orange menace is not providing that' 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Connell's fictional characters never seem to really know themselves or those closest to them. Evan S Connell obituary 2013-01-14T17:21:15Z

The fictional Daybreak is also relevant to its real-life British namesake in another way. Mourning television: Mark Lawson 2011-01-19T22:00:02Z

The show is about the adventures of a fictional counterterrorism unit called Section 20: sweaty operatives in the field directed from one of those cool-blue, all-seeing fantasy war rooms half a world away in London. | ?Strike Back?: In Between the Terrorist Threats, Plenty of Time for Hanky-Panky 2011-08-11T22:13:27Z

Though the community centre has a central role in Portlandia – as a fictional feminist bookshop run by two humourless ideologues – it has a real mission in the community. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

In "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie tells the fictional story of two Indian actors, linked when they both miraculously survive a mid-air plane bombing caused by hijacking. The long controversy around Salman Rushdie, and his refusal to stop speaking up 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

When these two start brainstorming, cruises into the high gear of the savviest old Hollywood comedies. bears another similarity to The Social Network: it's largely fictional. Moneyball: Brad Pitt Legs Out a Triple 2011-10-06T18:50:00Z

Yet fans of the show -- which Thomas pitched as "teen noir" -- loved its sharp banter and the dark atmosphere of a corrupt California town, the fictional Neptune. With help from thousands, 'Veronica Mars' reborn 2014-03-13T13:37:28Z

It is unclear how long the pandemic will infect the Conners’ fictional town of Lanford, Ill., just as it is uncertain how long masks and social distancing will remain the norm in America. The Conners Return to Confront the Coronavirus 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

When we are making these fictional characters are we inspiring empathy in them? Author Gabriel Bump: "We might be moving towards worse racial issues" 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

It has been a surreal experience reading a novel about a fictional pandemic in the midst of a real one. An Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel That’s Guaranteed to Terrify 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

But Schulman cunningly constructs her controversy – fictional, though with well-judged shadows of some factual scandals – to make easy moralising hard for readers. This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - review 2012-02-10T22:55:01Z

I got the idea to tell a fictional version of how the United States and Korea might stumble into war when The Washington Post asked me to write a piece about that. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Emily’s parents, who work at the fictional plant in Vermont’s rural Northeast Kingdom, are both killed in the explosion. A troubled teen in flight from a nuclear meltdown 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

It takes place in the fictional world of Westeros, following more than two dozen regular characters amid a war for dominion between noble houses. Desire, ice, and fire: 'Game of Thrones' returns for fourth season 2014-03-28T19:51:15Z

A meandering tale of post-9/11 New York, Reena Spaulings follows its fictional title character, a museum guard turned supermodel, everywhere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to a banging fashion party. Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' 2013-03-24T21:00:01Z

Rodriguez will be heard if not seen on it, narrating stories based on fictional novels written by her “Jane the Virgin” character. ‘Jane the Virgin’ creator says finale should bring closure 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

This town influenced his creation of the fictional town. Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry 2012-08-16T16:15:10Z

Canine companions of customers are greeted at the shop entrance with a jar of treats, and animals of the fictional variety are otherwise omnipresent in the 200-square-foot shop. Bookworms, and Book Dogs and Book Cats and Book Rabbits 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

In this latter guise, the film is a curious artifact, weaving archival footage of the community’s heyday into a fictional account of its recent demise. ‘Gagarine’ Review: Head in the Clouds 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Set in the fictional town of Fortitude on a Norwegian Arctic island, it’s for those who like a hothouse atmosphere and some science-fiction flourishes with their murder mystery. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The first footage of Elizabeth Hurley playing a fictional British Queen have been released by US cable network E!. Elizabeth Hurley plays British royal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But the historical Hadrian’s Wall was likely something quite different from its icy fictional counterpart. The Walls Before Trump’s Wall 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Jason Alexander, who played the fictional version of David as George Costanza on “Seinfeld”, took to Twitter earlier this month to express his distress. Larry David's "Fish in the Dark" Breaking Records On Primary and Secondary Ticket Markets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The film will follow a modern New York woman who is transported back in time into the fictional world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Portlandia star takes up Austen film 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ask most black people if they need a premium-cable show depicting a fictional supremacist nation to help forward the debate on race relations. After Charlottesville, HBO doubles down on “Confederate” 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

“There are stigmas around representing female issues and experiences in the context of a fictional narrative film.” ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the historical record is more imaginative than the fictional story represented onscreen. ‘My Policeman’ Review: Two Love Affairs, Equally Tragic 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

In one of my favorite episodes of “The West Wing,” Abigail Bartlet, a trained surgeon and the fictional first lady, speaks with a White House attorney about a looming scandal. Perspective | The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

And fictional characters don’t need to sober up because fiction does not require redemption — they can just perish. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

He had no desire to make “Pitch” without the league’s approval — a fictional ball team was not going to work when verisimilitude was so important to the show’s world. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Her devotion to a fictional charity called the Negro League serves her need to establish a beachhead in Harlem society and provides her reputational window dressing. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

As one of those parents, I don't recognise the fictional picture she paints in To Miss With Love. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

It may lose something without flying broomsticks; never mind that it's a fictional sport, created by J.K. An A-list guide to C2E2, which opens Friday 2011-03-16T00:39:04Z

The royal couple set off on a series of visits to mining and industrial areas, including Yorkshire, home to the fictional Downton Abbey. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

He fashioned the fictional Green Town after his Illinois hometown. Key dates in the life and work of Ray Bradbury 2012-06-06T18:58:09Z

Still, literary rock stars – and by this I mean major fictional protagonists – seem relatively few and far between, given how saturated our culture is by popular music. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z

From the real Texas locations in “Boyhood” to the fictional European ones in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the nominees traverse a good amount of physical territory as well. 8 Trips Inspired by Oscar-Nominated Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

One of the highlights of the premiere is the unveiling of a privately funded replacement for the lost trimaran, a sleek, black, science fictionally striking vessel named Gojira, after the original Japanese name for Godzilla. The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z

The switch in singers, which some later recognized as an inspiration for “Dreamgirls,” the fictional musical and film, came at a critical moment for the Supremes. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

A fully inhabited fictional creation of the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones, this sultry Amazon is the headliner of “Radiate,” a concert and motivational happening directed by Kym Moore at Soho Rep. | 'Jomama Jones: Radiate': On Hiatus From the Swiss Goats 2011-01-06T22:31:33Z

When I saw “Leopoldstadt” in London, I wondered how Viennese audiences would react to Stoppard’s fictional exploration of their history and culture. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Her images are accompanied by imagined narrative vignettes for each property, where fictional occupants speak to one another. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Brutal, disturbing, fictional terrorism has been a staple of prime time for years — specifically, since Sept. 11, which spurred a broad, public discussion about violence in popular culture. When TV Turns Itself Off 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

One glance at the installation of about 50 of his mainly fictional portraits on the New Museum’s fourth floor tells you otherwise. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z

While the crime plots may not necessarily be distinct from those faced by fictional British detectives, the sense of unfamiliarity offered up by tales from continental climes adds a sense of freshness. The Returned: how British TV viewers came to lose their fear of subtitles 2013-06-07T12:00:00Z

The aluminum buildings, some replicas and some purely fictional, look futuristic with their perfect edges and tiny lights. Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Clowns both real and fictional are household names and are deeply – if frequently regrettably – memorable. 10 Most Notable – and Often Creepy – Clowns in Pop Culture 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

One safe way to deal with the “I thought I knew you”s of real life was to argue about which lever your fictional TV kin would have pulled. It Was ‘Roseanne’ vs. ‘Roseanne,’ in a Polarizing Revival 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

In the rare fighting franchise that does focus on characters and their fictional world, like Mortal Kombat, the player certainly doesn’t need to pay attention to such frippery to succeed. Video Game Review: Fear Not: Your Chosen Heroes Are Fighting for You 2011-03-06T20:17:02Z

Over the years, Mr. West turned his hand to a wide variety of subjects, both fictional and nonfictional, a distinction he eventually grew weary of. Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Is it a merely a less than subtle ironic comment on the paradox of asking viewers to invest themselves in contrived fictional entertainments? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

It follows three fictional Seattle Magazine editors on an odyssey filmed in and around Seattle. SIFF: Seating not guaranteed at 'Safety Not Guaranteed' 2012-05-24T20:02:23Z

“Billy the Kid” became a calling card for directors looking to imbue their fictional projects with deep vérité. Jennifer Venditti Will See You Now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

So in their honour, join us as we look at some of television's finest parents; fictional family leaders for whom we'd happily clean our rooms. Six to watch: TV's best parents 2012-05-21T15:35:15Z

While Harris unpacks the reasoning behind this — which included Britain’s military unpreparedness and the British public’s strong opposition to another war — he also sets two fictional characters at work behind the scenes. Review | A black man shot by a white police officer tells his shocking story in ‘No Justice’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s not offensive when a fictional character tosses around homophobic slurs. Review: Louis C.K.'s Surprise TV Show 'Horace and Pete' Hits a Bum Note 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Originally conceived as a Navy-backed recruiting film, "Act of Valor" evolved over time into a full-length independent fictional action feature starring active-duty Navy SEALs. 'Act of Valor': Thriller calls on real-life Navy SEALs to save the day 2012-02-22T17:53:04Z

The result was a soundtrack that not only perfectly suited the fictional band but matched the explosion of that mall-punk sound that was enormously popular at the time of the movie's release. The 22 Best Movie Soundtracks of the 2000s 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

By this time, a former reality-show host was president, her fictional Brandon Stokes seemed less absurd and many, many people cared about the Supreme Court. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

But more important, its content marks a transition in cultural mores, as it is a sympathetic fictional portrait, created by a woman, of a man who has been charged with #MeToo violations. Review | A new novel explores the nuance of #MeToo accusations. Are we ready for that? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

While Wakanda may be fictional, the film’s costume designer Ruth E. Carter drew from real people and places, traveling across Africa to study the patterns, bead work and silhouettes of various tribes and peoples. Marvel takes New York fashionistas to Black Panther’s Wakanda 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

But both of those attributes apply to this French series, about a fictional Paris orchestra. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Philharmonia’ and Vanessa Hudgens 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The collection that follows contains five fictional characters and five real ones. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

It was shot in five consecutive days of one-take filming sessions and its central character is a fictional amalgam based on real testimony. Utøya survivor: Anders Breivik massacre films 'don't tell full story' 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Yet, about 10 years in, fictional podcasts are still finding their footing as a form. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The period drama, beginning Friday, follows the early days of the Miramar Playa hotel, a fictional composite of the giant Jewish-owned hotels that sprung up in South Florida in the 1950s. ?Magic City,? Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach 2012-03-30T21:10:08Z

The series was set in the fictional Hazzard County in the rural South and revolved around the "Duke boys," whose fast-driving ways put them at the center of numerous adventures and run-ins with the law. 'Dukes of Hazzard' drive into the holidays with Christmas album 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

She’s fictional, of course—a mythical grande dame, conjured as a creative concept for Peninsula hotels from Hong Kong to Manila. Jiayang Fan: Rooftop Cocktails at Salon de Ning, in Midtown 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

In his senior year at Princeton University, he wrote a show about a fictional castrato, unlocking $35,000 from college funds. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Other works included a trilogy set in fictional Washburn, Ohio; the memoir “The Family Heart”; and the cookbook “A Southern Thanksgiving.” Robb Forman Dew, prize-winning novelist, dead at 73 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

A statement, flashed up on screen before the film begins, announces the film's fictional credentials, though conceding it is inspired by Strauss-Kahn. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

After becoming president of France, the  fictional Islamist institutes Sharia law and many French people eagerly convert to Islam to get by. Houellebecq Speaks Out About Novel on Heels of Charlie Hebdo Attack 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

But what Linney is being asked to do here is to embody not only a fictional person but also the literary voice that shaped that person. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

While she travels extensively and speaks to everyone, she stresses that her monologues are fictional but based on reality, sidestepping the mess that monologist Mike Daisey faced when he admitted to making up conversations. Eve Ensler on a new play and beating cancer 2012-11-21T14:27:08Z

TV shows about TV shows often give you only a taste of what their fictional creations are like. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

A viewer can’t help but realize what a hot zone the West Wing, fictional or otherwise, can become, especially in Sorkin’s universe, where close and confidential talking-while-walking became its own kind of intimate choreography. Review | The last thing America needs right now is more ‘West Wing’ 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

In it she drew additional inspiration from Hodgson’s brooding science fictional quest-romance “The Night Land,” the last published of his four novels. Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

It inspired Montgomery to write the fictional story of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old, redheaded orphan mistakenly sent to Green Gables, a farm whose elderly owners wanted a boy to help with chores. ‘Anne of Green Gables’ is very much alive in Canada 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

On “The Knick,” the doctors and nurses at the Knickerbocker, a fictional hospital in Lower Manhattan, are mavericks, struggling to save lives by gaslight. 'The Knick,' a Cinemax Medical Drama Set in 1900 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Following a funeral, the fictional family gathers in the Hope Place house where the five siblings once lived. Telling Liverpool's story on stage 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Jacobs is not, of course, talking about the fictional heroine of “Grease,” the Broadway musical, the 1978 movie, perhaps one of the single most profitable entertainment products ever to originate from Chicago. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z

His latest work, “In A Wild Swan and Other Tales,” is a collection that includes mythic characters and talismans in fictional worlds. Spare Times for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

That story line, so full of possibilities, has threaded through fictional works of all kinds for centuries. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The ranch, a special event and conference center since 1991, was the fictional homestead of the Ewings in the original show, and a number of scenes from the new “Dallas” have been shot there, too. Texas Monthly: ‘Dallas,’ Now on TNT, Is Really Filmed in Dallas This Time 2012-07-22T04:41:23Z

The play is absolutely fictional and admittedly "preposterous." Michael Urie superb in charming 'Buyer & Cellar' 2013-04-04T00:04:08Z

The thing that I kept tripping on was, I didn’t want to do fictional news. ArtsBeat: Back to You: Aaron Sorkin Returns to Television With 'The Newsroom' 2012-06-06T13:24:54Z

The characters and stories on “Halt” are fictional but run alongside the early histories of companies like Hewlett-Packard, Apple and IBM, which was a major presence in each of the show’s first two seasons. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Clears Its Cache for Season 3 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Guests can book a stay at the neighboring Bumpus House – the fictional home to the Parkers’ "hillbilly" neighbors. 'A Christmas Story' House available for overnight Christmas stays 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

According to the murder mystery formula, when the detective solves the case, it’s over; our contract with this fictional world ends when we get the bad guy. At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

My fictional hometowns are no better or worse than the real one. Richard Russo's 'Elsewhere': unraveling the mystery of a troubled mother 2012-11-07T22:04:05Z

She was first noticed in the ’70s thanks to her “Untitled Film Stills,” fictional portraits inspired by movies and girlie magazines. Arts & Leisure: MoMA to Showcase Cindy Sherman?s New and Old Characters 2012-02-16T12:00:00Z

I slipped it into my pocket and, just like that, I was someone else — an actor playing a fictional version of me. The House Where My Husband Doesn’t Exist 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

"Clearly this depicts one particular dancer's story in one particular fictional company," Portman says in the film's defence. Black Swan set to soar 2011-01-14T09:51:08Z

At first, he said, his idea was to construct a fictional story using that material as background, but as he delved further into archives of interviews at the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere, his thinking changed. James de Jongh, Who Put Stories of Slavery Onstage, Dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Martin about fictional, medieval families fighting for control of a mythical land. 'Game of Thrones' most popular series in HBO history 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

She wasn’t interested in the truth of the case so much as deeper truths about human nature — and she made her movie using elements from traditionally fictional films. Documentaries like ‘Casting JonBenet’ mix fact and fiction. That just makes them more honest. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The stage is the fictional News of the Week magazine in late 1969, where young female researchers fetch coffee and do the reporting legwork for male writers. Review: In ‘Good Girls Revolt,’ the ‘Nasty Women’ of the 1960s Fight Job Discrimination 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

While Nanjiani's endorsement of No Nut November is fictional, the trend itself remains real. "Big Mouth" tackles the shame and dangers of No Nut November 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

And when that happens, the fictional boundaries break down. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The show is set in the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview in Eagle State. VIDEO: Huffman the Desperate housewife 2011-06-14T11:05:19Z

It stars Ralph Fiennes channeling Noël Coward, if Coward were a concierge, and is the first film in which Mr. Anderson has set one of his painstakingly selected fictional tableaus against the backdrop of history. Europe’s Painful Past Colors a Film Festival 2014-02-09T22:03:12Z

Carlos Gamerro: 'I wanted to recreate in this fictional world the different levels on which this war existed.' Falklands war novel by leading Argentinian author comes to Edinburgh 2012-08-22T14:43:01Z

He wonders about the stories and legends of his small town, which exists in the fictional nation of Santa Maria, “somewhere in the Américas.” In an Enchanted World, Echoes of Today’s Political Dramas 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

For all the brilliance of Jim Fletcher's embodiment of the self-created Gatsby, the mere act of impersonation robs him of some of the elusiveness that makes him a great fictional character. Gatz – review 2012-06-14T06:00:06Z

It is that panorama that some compare with Jane Austen’s description of the fictional Pemberley, home of Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice.” In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Almost 60 years after he was first found at a London railway station, Paddington Bear is back on the streets of the capital - in the form of 50 statues of the fictional bear. Paddington Bear trail around London 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

From the fictional TV drama Threads to the real-life events at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the terror of a nuclear disaster permeated life in the 1980s. Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z

Because she was so sensationalized in the popular press, Restell became the figure on which fictional accounts of female abortionists were based. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

You may use either fictional or real people, and the Empress tends to favor subjects who’ve been in the news recently, though she’s made many exceptions for the oldies. Style Invitational: ’Hew ready? Verse for the rhythm-deaf 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Some of these new ones are too, but not all: A high percentage flatter their fictional sitters. Cindy Sherman’s Divas, Poised for a Final Close-Up 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

He had trouble securing a road atlas to create his fictional journey — prison officials weren’t thrilled about distributing maps. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Such writers take on faith that, if you’re able to lose yourself in fictional others, any additional storytelling obligations will naturally fall in line or become irrelevant. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Sarah Lund: 'the finest fictional feminist icon ever created'. The Killing III: was this really a fitting end for Sarah Lund? 2012-12-17T10:00:00Z

The crowd is now largely tourists inspired by the venue’s regular appearances on “Nashville,” where the fictional country stars extol the venue’s intimacy. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Today programme feature is part of a series of special programmes on the station exploring fictional characters. French revives Vicar of Dibley on R4 2014-03-06T17:23:32Z

"The Lost Boys" is about a family of three who relocates to the fictional town of Santa Carla and runs into a vampire-motorcycle gang. Halloween countdown: The best vampire horror movies 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

What remains is the impulse to tell the story of a fictional version of this place, of the hustlers, gangsters and losers who live like coyotes on the edge of this town. ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

She began gathering articles and sociological data and decided to write a fictional biography of an average Korean woman, following her from birth to the present. The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

If you don't know , it's Korine's fictional documentary about a subculture of lurking perverts in Nashville, Tennessee who get their kicks from, well, humping trash. Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers soundtrack is a load of rubbish 2010-07-07T16:00:00Z

The fictional ’93 Cornell graduate announced during “The Office” finale last year that he landed his dream job working at Cornell’s admissions office. Ed Helms speaks at Cornell, his “Office” character’s alma mater 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Radiance” tells the fictional story of two friends who return to their home village after a brutal civil war. Tales of shipwreck, war and nightclub dancers all at the National Book Festival

So at Hamiltonian he’s assembled actual photographs, ambiguous artifacts and a fictional organizational chart to illustrate his choice. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

"The Good Fight" plays personal arcs in concert with themes bedeviling the larger world, one in which the Kings' fictional firm and in its people exist. "The Good Fight" makes the Kafka-esque dream of a People's Court a reality 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Reisner, the viewer, is white, the fictional suicide a young black man, the contrast no doubt deliberate. In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

With the exception of A Light Between Oceans, which depicts a fictional Australian island, all of these projects use Tasmania as a central plot element. How Tasmania became the gothic muse of Australian film and TV 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s incredibly fun to weave historical and cultural figures into a fictional narrative for some reason. “It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback”: Novelist John Wray on “The Lost Time Accidents” as science fiction, romance and seedy Third Reich thriller 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

There are lots of elaborately done maps of grandly imagined fictional places, like Middle-earth. A literary map to end all literary maps 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The story is fictional, but Mr. Jude said he drew on the historical record. ‘Aferim!,’ an Oscar Contender, Explores the Enslavement of the Roma 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

He encourages children to include fictional, famous and historical figures, along with friends and family. 9 ways parents can help bullied kids learn resilience 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a political drama based loosely on historical events, and its approach to them is cagily defined in an opening voice-over, which affirms that the film’s details are fictional. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

But fictional serial killers are usually more pretentious than frightening, perpetually quoting Milton or arranging their victims in poses designed to evoke the martyrdom of St Sebastian. Charlie Brooker 2010-07-11T23:04:00Z

The bond between standup comedy and fictional films, whether comedic or dramatic, is suggested in a movie where one might not expect to find it. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Walkers is the show's term for zombies, a word that doesn't exist in their fictional world. The Walking Dead cast dish on season three: 'It's a clash of two camps' 2012-10-14T14:18:40Z

But Marks’ play, which takes sharp turns into inky-dark territory, is implausible on several counts as a fictional documentary. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z

And Cars Land, a 12-acre area based on the Pixar movie "Cars," opens Friday with three new rides and a re-creation of the fictional town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. Disney unveils theme park redo with Cars Land 2012-06-13T06:16:04Z

The political situation in the fictional African nation of Wakanda is complicated enough. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Review: Women on the Home Front 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Michael Winter’s “The Big Why” is a fictional account of Rockwell Kent’s time in Brigus at the beginning of the 20th century. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The film is set in a fictional Eastern European country called Zubrowka. Europe’s Painful Past Colors a Film Festival 2014-02-09T22:03:12Z

We already know that this a fictional universe, there is no reason to go layering fiction on top of fiction. Boardwalk Empire and Sons of Anarchy face challenge of finding a fitting finale 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Scarlet, the fictional fashion glossy at the heart of Freeform’s new series “The Bold Type” might best be described as Teen Vogue in the streets and Cosmopolitan in the sheets. In “The Bold Type,” fluffy female empowerment is always in fashion 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

And that kind of restraint makes it all the more tempting to create fictional versions who are as corrupt and conniving in public office as their male counterparts. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z

However Leigh said the process of making it was "no different" than making his fictional dramas Naked, Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies. Mike Leigh tipped for Turner prizes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Polgar — who became a grandmaster at age 15 in 1991, 30 years after Beth’s fictional rise — says her male competitors would disparage or mock her. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

He also consulted another fictional lawyer when queried about his role in the forthcoming "Star Trek" sequel from filmmaker J.J. `Sherlock' star defends TV show's nude scene 2012-01-06T12:01:04Z

But on the podcast he finally voted in favor of his fictional stuntman. Quentin Tarantino doubles down on Bruce Lee shade and uses foul language to tell critics off 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yet despite being fictional contrivances, they exude poetic effects, as if a spiritual persona in the artist were striving to overcome his secularist prejudices. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

As Pünd, McMullan tried to avoid “mannerisms and props” that “might be a bit close to another well-known fictional detective of the period,” he said. ‘It’s a Labyrinth’: A Meta Detective Story Comes to the Screen 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

A fictional tale that draws from real life, it takes place in the Andean plateau — the Altiplano — an arid, mountainous strip with altitudes nearing 14,000 feet above sea level that runs through western Bolivia. ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Fine literature tends to explore the messy ambiguities of existence, and stump speeches — both real and fictional — want no part of ambiguity. Review: ‘Now and Again’: A vibrant novel about the Iraq War and the homefront 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The premise of "The Handmaid's Tale," itself, portraying a surveillance state that eliminates reproductive rights as a dystopian fictional world rather than a modern reality, may inadvertently reinforce this gaslighting. Arc of “The Handmaid’s Tale” mirrors struggle for reproductive rights 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Crazy Ira and the Douche: Two of the biggest fictional tools on television. These Are the 25 Best Minor Characters on 'Parks and Recreation' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

To be a defence lawyer called Harry Potter and to host a three-part BBC series on the law is to invite comparisons to the wizard drama of his fictional counterpart. In praise of … people like Harry Potter 2012-06-21T22:30:54Z

Now, the museum said, it will display a spacecraft that has flown only onscreen, in an entirely fictional galaxy where good and evil seem locked in eternal battle. Coming Soon to a Hallowed Hall of Spaceflight: An X-Wing Fighter 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Like many of Macdonald’s fictional anecdotes, this one transforms a believable framework into farce. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

"Huge" features seven male and female teens and their emotional journeys at the fictional weight loss Camp Victory. "Huge" marks advance for fat acceptance in Hollywood 2010-06-30T01:59:00Z

Gentrification horror and sociopolitical satire play out with sharpness in this visually brilliant thriller set in a fictional Chicago South Side community. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

And while fictional depictions of humanity are meant primarily as entertainments, they can also be educational tools. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

“But the principal interest of ‘The Book of All Books’ lies not in its fictional embellishments but in the stories themselves,” Stephen Greenblatt writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Or that none of it matters because he's just a fictional dog. The dreams in Inception look fantastic. But what would Leonardo DiCaprio make of these? 2010-07-09T23:10:00Z

It invites residents to send “cease and exist” letters from the fictional law firm of William, Carlos & Williams to friends, relatives or politicians leading unpoetic lives. Poetry Everywhere, and They Mean Everywhere, in Miami Festival 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

He likely envisions himself as a Cory Ellison, the handsome president of the fictional network news division on "The Morning Show." Canceling CNN's Jeff Zucker show – an ignominious career of ruining networks & developing characters 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Not for nothing is Darren Lemming, the fictional center fielder of a team called the Empires, also at the center of “Take Me Out,” Richard Greenberg’s gay fantasia on the national pastime. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Inventing fictional critics sounds extreme, but creating characters and identities is central to Ms. Leeson’s work, as is considering the effects of technology on women’s bodies and psyches. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

When Sayers later married, the union was not as harmonious as the one she would invent for her fictional characters. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Sitting in cafes, going book clubs. Browsing in a bookstore in fictional world,” she says. Murder, but gentler: ‘Cozy’ mysteries a pandemic-era balm 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

He wanted to know exactly how many crickets both you and another character ate, apiece, because how else could he be certain who actually won an imaginary contest in your fictional movie? Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z

The actress tends to hide the books she’s reading on set: in the bag her character is holding or under a couch cushion in her fictional home. Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals First Book Acquisition, and Her A.L.A. Book Club Pick 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Of course, she is based on a real person, but Nolan's treatment of her and her tragic death is the same as if she were fictional. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. McConnell, the author of “Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad!,” plays a fictional version of herself in this cooking show, which also has spooky puppets. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Romanoffs’ and ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

In a 1969 Los Angeles Times interview, she lamented that the “permissive generation” of the 1960s wasn’t getting the old-fashioned parenting that the fictional Andy Hardy got. ‘Gone With the Wind’ Actress Ann Rutherford Dies at 94 2012-06-13T13:31:01Z

Fiction is not supposed to be an op-ed disguised as a fictional story. The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Subsequent books brought in all kinds of real and fictional characters, with Newman plunging his fangs into punk, the first world war, and supercool 50s Rome. Deathless prose: the vampire novel of the century 2012-02-10T11:25:52Z

The series has followed Bojack, an anthropomorphic horse voiced by Will Arnett, as he navigates a fictional version of Hollywood, where he lives as a has-been 1990s sitcom star. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bojack Horseman’ and ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

And yet fictional heroes need redeeming qualities, which is why Mr. Cronenberg wanted Robert Pattinson as the star of his film. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z

As a metaphor for our online behavior, however, the rabbit hole has an advantage those other fictional portals lack: it conveys a sense of time spent in transit. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

This time, Yates turns his wizardry to a fictional species of digitally rendered gorillas — called here, as in Burroughs, the Mangani — who raised the orphaned Tarzan from infancy. ‘The Legend of Tarzan’: Updated ape-man adventure is a jungle of film styles 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

But the remarkable, disappointing fact is that his fictional Shostakovich is not his own invention. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

It contains every fictional element and effect I’m leery of — unicorns, for example. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

You cross a boundary between a commonplace reality and a tight, compacted fictional space. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z

And despite missing out on the award in previous years, the 68-year-old finally triumphed this week with his 11th fictional novel, The Finkler Question. Q&A: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question 2010-10-15T16:25:00Z

And, as he’s done before, Morrow crossbreeds his fictional characters with real-life figures, from Gregor Mendel and Alfred Russel Wallace to Rosalind Franklin. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It laid bare the layers of fame: the fictional character, the actor, the persona the actor sells to the press and the image the press presents to the public. Her Books Show the Lifestyles of the Fictional and Famous. She’s Poised for Some Fame of Her Own. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

It all seemed to happen in a fictional world. 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Joe: Why must every fictional date between youngish people in urban areas include an art opening? 'Girls' Recap: An Awkward Date Night for Hannah 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

In these stories, Bolaño’s fictional double returns to Chile after the 1973 coup, a poet reckons with the coup’s aftermath and a 17-year-old is recruited to a clandestine surrealist art group in French Guiana. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Through the novel’s protagonist, Scooter, his fictional alter ego, Mr. Murray evoked an unharrowed childhood enriched by music, legends, jiving and jesting, and the fancy talk of pulpit orators and storefront storytellers. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

How much more interesting if the Academy had given the Oscar to another nominee, Dexter Gordon, for his portrayal of the fictional jazz sax legend Dale Turner in Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“If we’re talking about fictional stories - and if they’re so-called universal stories - they can be played by any race,” says Free, 45. ‘The Fantasticks’ breaks a color barrier 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

But the fictional Veridian Dynamics, creator of products like "weaponized pumpkins" and dabbler in questionable human experiments, is no Sterling Cooper. Comfort food for your eyes: Here are 7 easily bingeable sitcoms you haven't seen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

They're also having a hoot with building out this fictional African nation's story and convincingly linking it to the real world, guaranteeing the laughs come from a real and solid place. "Coming 2 America" takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ivey has built her narrative around a combination of fictional diary entries, mostly written by Col. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

That may be a hopeless task, but his case is compelling: The stories we tell are made up, and we can't be quite sure we are not fictional characters. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

The Potter mania hasn’t faded quickly, especially with Warner Bros. adapting Rowling’s fictional encyclopedia “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and the Universal Studios Potter attractions. Quidditch players are leaving Harry Potter behind as they aim for athletic credibility

In its spring women’s collection, Balenciaga offered shirts printed with fictional good-news stories in a bit of pointed irony, and Balmain riffed on the subject in PVC. When Your Jeans Become a #MeToo Talking Point 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Given the surge in popularity for such documentaries in recent years, and with their conservation messaging growing more urgent, it follows that the messaging within Disney's fictional animal tales should probably harmonize with reality. Disney's defiant, talking-gorilla movie offers kid-friendly lessons in civil disobedience 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

Although the movie took some fictional liberties, its story and its message kept a firm grip on what we mean when we say someone or something has the right stuff. Review | Whatever ‘The Right Stuff’ is, this Disney Plus adaptation could use more of it 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

But it is based on author Amos Kenan’s miniature masterpiece of the same name, a surrealist, nightmarish odyssey set in a near-future Israel that ends with a grand science fictional twist. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

"Ghoul" trails the fictional American crew of an ill-conceived television pilot about 20th century cannibalism. 'Ghoul' an inept 'Blair Witch' wannabe 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

A series of stage and screen roles followed until she landed in the fictional Cabot Cove, the coastal Maine setting for “Murder, She Wrote.” Angela Lansbury’s road, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to Noël Coward 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Which fictional character utters this line and in what novel? Quiz: Bastille in literature 2010-07-14T10:23:00Z

But Twain’s fictional children were victims and villains, sanctified by their unruliness, blasphemy and self-sufficiency — and openly contemptuous of becoming “sivilized,” as Huck might say, let alone suffering the indignities of standardized education. ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Now you could argue that the eye color of a fictional human is a minor detail whereas fidelity to the skin color of a fictional elf is essential. Guess Who’s Coming to Mordor 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

“You’ve Been Trumped” lards in excerpts from Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film, “Local Hero,” in which the residents of a fictional Scottish coastal town foil the attempts of a Texas oil baron to build a refinery. Movie Review: ‘You’ve Been Trumped,’ an Unflattering Documentary 2012-08-02T14:29:16Z

At any moment the story might leap into an animated sequence or flash between a fictional version of a figure and the real person's face. HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” knows how to put on a show 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Pattern Recognition,” the first book in the series, was written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and Gibson’s abandonment of the fictional future seemed driven by something like confusion, or even despair. William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

As with the stage, the audience in a game occupies the same three-dimensional space as the fictional inhabitants, Mr. Gaynor noted. Video Game Review: In Gone Home, a Family Mystery Unfolds 2013-08-18T22:04:16Z

Some of it takes place, as we now learn with hindsight, in what were practically idyllic times for the Sinaloa cartel, a real-life cartel run by the fictional Barrera, regardless of his situation vis-à-vis imprisonment. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Woody Allen modeled his fictional film festival after it in “Stardust Memories.” Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90 2012-08-07T16:35:14Z

I think fictional construction is at the root of our search for truthfulness. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

This message emerged even in the family pictures, which showed her children posing moodily in fictional tableaux, often in proximity to damage and death. Review | Sally Mann: A great artist who loves tumbling into trouble 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

I much prefer these fictional female creatures, who are cruelly groomed to laboratory perfection, and, instead of taking Instagrams, they kill. “Morgan,” “The Girls,” and the Beautiful Cyborg 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

His radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” launched in 1974, stitched together old-timey jingles for fictional brands of biscuits and acoustic performances by guest musicians. Garrison Keillor, founder of ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ fired after allegations of improper behavior 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The main departure from the real-life case is the show’s fictional meeting between the two main characters, a psychological stare-down centered on the desire to get a confession out of Mr. Kaczynski. Will Shark Lovers Love ‘Unabomber’? Asking for a Cable Network. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s as though the show, produced in a world fighting a real pandemic, has no grasp yet on how the story of its fictional epidemic should conclude. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Gimlet Media, the podcasting startup based in Brooklyn, tapped the valve of radio drama in 2016 with Homecoming, the fictional thriller podcast brought to life by Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac and David Schwimmer. In the golden age of television, can narrative podcasts compete? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

She found the proof, she said, in the novel “Atticus Pünd Takes the Case,” the third in a series by the late novelist Alan Conway and, it seems, a coded fictional reinterpretation of the crime. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lee’s most radical move in “Chi-Raq,” which he wrote with Kevin Willmott, is to transport a classical Greek play to a Chicago that is highly fictional and painfully real, geographically specific and unmistakably metaphoric. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

But more than that, puppets are just fictional characters like any others. Are Ernie and Bert gay? Who gets to say? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Titled Rigoletto in Mantua, the two-day live performance will be broadcast from the locations around the Italian city that formed the opera's fictional setting. Verdi's Rigoletto given 'cinematic' makeover for BBC 2010-07-25T17:34:00Z

To those of us who confuse her fictional selves with the reality, it is apparently a shock to discover that she is actually an extremely focused and productive adult rather than a shrieking shopaholic. Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

To say that he “is just white” because that’s the way fictional pictures of him have mostly appeared is to say that your pictures and traditions are solely legitimate, authentic, the cultural default. May All Your Christmases Be White: Fox News Reports Santa Claus Is Real, and a White Man 2013-12-12T19:14:10Z

The most obvious example of this is a fictional cleric called Mullah Nasruddeen. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z

DAYTON, Ohio — A convict-journalist's prison memoir and a fictional epic woven from the Korean War are this year's winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Chang-Rae Lee, Wilbert Rideau win Ohio book prize 2011-09-26T18:57:07Z

The 16th-century novelist Miguel de Cervantes framed his fictional story of the knight-errant Don Quixote as the translation of a recovered Arabic manuscript. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Are we to assume that, at least in the fictional world, you and Rufus are now back together? ArtsBeat: Lisa Loeb Explains Her Cameo on the 'Gossip Girl' Finale 2012-12-18T19:18:47Z

It is the most believable fictionalized story about people who spend their lives carefully presenting to the world a fictional version of themselves. A matter of character: How "The Crown" squares Charles with our longstanding villain edit 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

What distinguishes “The Imposter,” despite my misgivings about its cheap film-noir fictional elements, is that it makes clear that not all mysteries yield answers, even in the movies. He fooled a missing teenager’s family — or did he? 2012-07-17T21:15:00Z

Pretty Little Liars is about teens in the fictional town of Rosewood, Penn., whose best friend was murdered. ABC Family Says Pretty Little Liars Spinoff a Go 2013-03-26T16:44:12Z

In the fictional “The Night Of,” as in those stories, someone dies, and someone goes to trial, but the biggest suspect is the notion of egalitarian justice. Review: ‘The Night Of’ Takes a Cab Ride to Hell 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

To do this in the context of a fictional small town, Pine Valley, required central characters who would, like the matriarch Ruth, embody stable values. Mary Fickett, a Pillar of ?All My Children,? Dies at 83 2011-09-12T23:58:43Z

Shannon will next be playing a star personality on a fictional home-shopping network in the Showtime comedy “I Love That For You,” which has its premiere April 29. The Unsinkable Molly Shannon 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

He was employed at a Goliath — Kirkland & Ellis — for two years, although that firm, he insisted, didn’t engage in the sort of dirty dealings and chicanery that his fictional one routinely does. Billy Bob Thornton Plays a Lawyer in ‘Goliath.’ A Drunkard, Too. 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

On “Perfect Strangers,” which I adored as a girl, Balki Bartokomous was a childlike sheepherder who arrived to Chicago from a strange land, the fictional island of Mypos, where telephones and indoor plumbing were scarce. ’90s Sitcoms Shaped Me as an Immigrant Child. What if They Hadn’t? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In the first episode, aired on Sunday, Baron Cohen posed as an Israeli anti-terror expert who asked two U.S. congressmen to support his fictional Israeli program “Kinderguardians” to teach kindergartners how to use guns. U.S. politician denounces as 'sick fraud' Baron Cohen TV guns prank 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

This adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” stars Bill Murray as a fictional television network head — and a somewhat modernized Scrooge. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Bad Santa’ and ‘A Madea Christmas’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

This is a gigantic fable of genuine truths held together by a connective tissue of tender exchange between fictional friends, lovers, parents and children. The Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

He’s an introspective teenager who becomes something of a symbol in the fictional West Texas town of Bliss after a school shooting leaves him in a persistent vegetative state. Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps this explains why Hollywood has jumped forward to acceptance, greenlighting films which use 9/11 as a dramatic device in fictional narratives capable of having the happy ending real life can't always provide. Is Hollywood finally over 9/11? 2010-03-30T09:02:00Z

As an undergraduate, Bardugo was a member of Wolf’s Head, to whose members she has awarded the fictional specialty of therianthropy — the ability to change from human to animal form. A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Characters die early and often, whether or not we’ve been given the dramatic buildup we expect from fictional shows. Review: ‘Saints & Strangers,’ a Thanksgiving Story Told in a Native Tongue 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

But perhaps all of these arguments are moot because Agrabah is a fictional country, created by a team of white writers and producers in the 90s. The fairest of them all? Two cheers for Aladdin's browner Princess Jasmine 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

This is the perfect example of reading way too much into a fictional piece of art. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The story takes place in a fictional Tahiti-like South Pacific Polynesian island Please get your cultures straight. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Middle-aged readers often tend to scorn this sort of hothouse fictional narcissism. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

This story of four teens mooning around the fictional Massachusetts town of Capeside, falling in and out of love with each other while speaking in exceptionally long sentences, was both highly self-conscious and highly affecting. Your next box set: Dawson's Creek 2011-01-21T07:59:00Z

How is creating a fictional narrative arc possible in conjunction with another mind? J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian had two identities. It took two authors to tell her story. 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The ending leaves open the possibility that this is the beginning of a beautiful fictional friendship. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Am I a fictional character?” someone demands, late in the film, as literature and life blur at the edges. ‘In the House’: Truth and fiction mingle in François Ozon’s latest 2013-05-16T19:33:42Z

It was actually perfect as the third book is my favourite book and Sirius Black is the first fictional character to have my heart. Pottermore: your experiences 2011-08-16T14:51:48Z

Nature films, “edited in ways to show a largely fictional narrative for the sake of dramatic impact,” antagonize Packer. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mbue’s sweeping fable, charting the struggle between a fictional African village and an American oil company, was one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Stipe and Martin had previously collaborated on a poetry compilation, The Haiku Year, and the latter later confirmed that the novel was indeed a fictional delineation of their relationship. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z