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| As the Olympics kick off tonight, Catherine Arnold, author of The Sexual History of London, tells Kevin Canfield that the host of this year’s games has a randy past—and how the city became a hub for Olympian acts of fornication in the first half of the 20th century. |
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| Go ahead, be a kid for a day. MoMA’s “Century of the Child,” a new exhibit opening today, takes us inside Barbie’s Dream House and looks back at our 20th century toy story. |
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| From Francis Coppola’s finest to a Real Housewife’s entrée, celebrities’ labels are everywhere. Rebeccca Dana taste tests two star-backed pinot grigios at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. |
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| In theaters Friday, Alison Klayman’s new documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, captures Ai’s evolution as China’s creative darling—the man who helped design Beijing’s Olympic stadium—into its most famous dissident. A riveting glimpse of Chinese tyranny and the people who fight back. |
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