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Glenn Close received her eighth Academy Award nomination Monday, for best supporting actress as Mamaw Vance, the foul-mouthed, chain-smoking Middletown...

Ron Howard's new Pavarotti film fails to make us feel much for its subject, and does little to bolster the magical, complicated art called opera.

When Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007, I cried. He wasn’t a relative. My name would have meant nothing to him. I had seen him many times, but from a great…