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• What’s on Monday

  Television highlights.        

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• ‘Fruitvale’ Actors Discuss the Impact of Producer Forest Whitaker (VIDEO)

  Michael B. Jordan and “Fruitvale Station” director talk about the impact and mentorship of producer Forest Whitaker at the Variety Studio in Cannes.

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• MSN to Bankroll ‘Micro-Episodic’ Online Video Series

  Taking short-form video to the extremes of brevity, MSN is holding a worldwide competition that will award the winner $75,000 to produce an original Internet series comprising 12 roughly one-minute...

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• Music Review: James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall

  James Levine, who has defined the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years, returned Sunday after two years to lead the Met Orchestra at a packed Carnegie Hall.       &...

• Disney, NBCUniversal and Paramount Plan Bold Studio Expansions

  Given the more generous subsidies offered in other states and countries, major studios including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Disney all have large-scale, long-term expansion plans.   &...

• Electric Daisy Carnival

  Scenes from the electronic dance music festival at Citi Field in Queens.        

• Arts, Briefly: Pearl Theater Company Unveils Schedule

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• ArtsBeat: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Is No. 1 at the Box Office

  James T. Kirk and crew were No. 1 in the United States and Canada, taking in about $70.6 million over the weekend.        

• Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

  Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst and documentary producer, is using Kickstarter to raise funds for a film about a man whose severed leg was the subject of a legal custody battle.  ...

• Book review: ‘Minotaur,’ by Benjamin Tammuz

  When this tale of obsessive love was originally published in English in 1981, Graham Greene called it “the best novel of the year.” The author, Benjamin Tammuz , lived in Israel, where...

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