Shannon Robinson

Shannon Robinson divides her time between New York City and Connecticut. She is at work on a novel.

Actress Dame Maggie Smith in 2015

LOSS OF A LEGEND

Acting Icon Dame Maggie Smith Has Died at 89

The two-time Oscar winner had a long and distinguished career on stage and on screen, but “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey” made her uneasily famous.

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Tributes Pour in as Game Show King Bob Barker Dies at 99

The host of “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right” didn’t invent the game show, but he was surely the genre’s king, a small-screen mainstay for half a century.

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An upclose still of Gene Hackman in the film The French Connection.

WHAT IN POUGHKEEPSIE?

Why ‘The French Connection’ Still Gets Under Our Skin

Released in 1971, the late William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning masterpiece has lost none of its power to make us squirm.

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Tony Bennett.

Tony Bennett’s Voice Made People Smile for Half a Century

Whether he went solo or shared a spotlight with singers half his age, the indefatigable and self-effacing singer always put the song first.

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Once and Forever I Will Always Be an Olivia Newton-John Fan

Godspeed, Livvy, the object of our hopeless devotion.

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