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FILM
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Welcome to the new and improved Yes List, now called Culture Beast! Each Friday, we’ll deliver five recommendations for the weekend—and beyond. This week: films to see over the Memorial Day weekend, unseen Cindy Sherman and more!
  • SEE: ‘Battle Royale,’ the original— and grittier—‘Hunger Games.’
  • SKIP: ‘Men in Black 3,’ the sequel that no one wanted.
  • SEE: ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.’ Judi Dench and Maggie Smith don’t disappoint.
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MUSIC
The Spectacular Regina Spektor
The quirky singer-songwriter is back with her sixth album, 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats.' She talks to Jesse Ellison about returning to Russia and her obsession with ‘The West Wing.'
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ART
Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Cindy Sherman
Hurry up, her MoMA retrospective closes on June 11. The Daily Beast’s Blake Gopnik on the early self-portraits the exhibit didn’t show.
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"The L.A. Phil's spin on Don Giovanni would make Marina Abramovic proud…"

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BOOKS
This Week's Hot Reads
From HHhH, a Holocaust novel about the impossibility of writing a Holocaust novel, to a memoir without a trace of self-aggrandizement by priest and politician Bob Massie.
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THEATER
Julie Taymor Roars Again
As the Tony Awards approach on June 10, the woman behind ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Spider-Man’ dishes to Jacob Bernstein about two of Broadway’s hottest shows.
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In response to America's Public Library Crisis:

I truly hope that the world does not discard paper books for electronic reading. There is nothing like (and I KNOW most book lovers would agree) opening a book, feeling the pages, and settling down for a good read.

- sapphire storm

In response to Never-Before-Seen Cindy Sherman:

A great deal of art that comes out of academia can be characterized as esoteric nonsense. There are just a select few that can actually earn a living making art. Cindy appears to be one.

- Eunice
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