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Two mummified bodies, well preserved and intact, were identified by Swiss forensic specialist as that of a husband and wife who disappeared nearly 75 years ago after telling their children they were going to feed the animals.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, LOS ANGELES, CA, June 12, 2014 – The American Film Institute (AFI) conferred Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees honoris causa upon screenwriter Robert Towne and actress Cicely Tyson, during the AFI Conservatory 2014 commencement of 127 graduates at Hollywood's historic TCL Chinese Theatre.
President Obama, as per protocol, made a congratulatory telephone call and agreed to meet with President Elect Trump in the Oval office. The meeting, visually uneasy, was void of fanfare and limited to the mandates critical to the transition of power.
The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center (OHMTEC) announced a major gift from the Miranda Family Fund to support the nonprofit's effort to purchase, restore and preserve Oscar Hammerstein II's former home and Highland Farm creative epicenter.
Japanese government officials are admitting for the first time the radioactive leak in the crippled Fukushima plant is causing contaminated water to pour into the Pacific Ocean at an alarming rate.

Dear Ms. A Revolution in Print, from HBO Documentary films, presents the story behind the movement which spawned a societal upheaval in how women experience their worlds, and caused a cataclysmic divide as change often does.
Emerging R&B girl group, The Shindellas, will serve as direct support for the entirety of October London's forthcoming "The Rebirth of Marvin" tour with newly confirmed dates at Seattle's Showbox, Los Angeles' The Fonda, and Nashville's Marathon Music Works.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Academy) are pleased to present Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film.
Abingdon Theatre Company (Chad Austin, Artistic Director) has announced casting for their 3rd annual Virtual Festival of Short Plays; a festival set to shed light on stories written by BIPOC playwrights via Abingdon's YouTube channel.
PIG, from Neon, presents the story of separation, attachment, love, and discovering the sensory combination that bridges the distance of time with the intimacy of cuisine, enticing buried memories, those which transcend boundaries and dissolve barriers, to surface.
The Fall of the American Empire, from Sony Pictures Classics, brings to the screen a smart, riveting, pulsating film resonating with sarcasm and indictments on society, and presenting fate intersect the ultimate test of good and evil.





