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boston

Leonard Nimoy takes a virtual star turn in the West End

BOSTON – Last year's passing of Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" TV series and movies, delivered a blow to "trekkies" worldwide. A year later, Nimoy's memory will be honored during Jewish American Heritage Month at the West End

public health

Critics protest ‘Me Before You’ as a pro-euthanasia message

Warning: This article contains spoilers BOSTON – This summer's romance flick "Me Before You" has a dark twist that has some calling for its targeted audience to boycott the Warner Bros. film.

New Jersey

Jarmusch, Driver bewitch Cannes with poetic ‘Paterson’

CANNES, France (AP) — Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama "Paterson" at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film's gentle and quirky rhythms. In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry inspired by

gender discrimination

Feds eye gender-discrimination evidence in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union says federal officials are investigating whether gender discrimination exists in Hollywood. Attorney Melissa Goodman said Wednesday the wide-ranging investigation into the industry's hiring practice is being conducted by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the

hillary clinton

Friends, family say final farewells to Nancy Reagan

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Mourners from the top ranks of Washington and Hollywood paid final tribute to Nancy Reagan on Friday, recalling at her funeral how the former first lady and her husband made up "two halves of a circle," with a legendary love that seemed to inspire

Cambridge

Harvard grads will hear from Hollywood great Spielberg

CAMBRIDGE – Call it a case of the Ivy League going Hollywood. Harvard University will feature Academy Award-winning film director Steven Spielberg as its commencement speaker on May 26, the Cambridge school said Thursday. He'll be the star of the school's 365th graduation exercise.

Massachusetts

Film workers defend state tax credit Baker would cut

BOSTON – Film industry workers flooded a State House hearing Tuesday to defend a tax credit they say has fueled job growth by making the state a regular destination for large and small productions and enabled industry workers to stay in Massachusetts rather than pursuing opportunities in New York or Los

Massachusetts

Critics say cut film tax credit as costs erase gains

BOSTON – They can bring Hollywood A-listers like Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, put Boston and other Bay State communities on the silver screen and pump millions of dollars into the local economy, but critics say the cost of film tax credits makes them a bad deal for Massachusetts. "Every