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Actor Guy Pearce did not hold back when dissing a star who criticized his soap-opera past, saying he “wanted to punch her.” ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Meet Grammy-winning Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel, affectionately known as ‘The Dude’, who is soon to be music director of America’s oldest symphony orchestra.