Anyone learning that a play's final-scene rallying cry is "Death to literalism" may start preparing himself for an evening of high seriousness. The sweet surprise of John Kolvenbach's play "Love Song" is its gentle touch. Instead of hitting auds over the head with earnest metaphysical musings, Kolvenbach works up his ideas of realism and reality, habit and hope, into a quirky romantic comedy. Anyone learning that a play’s final-scene rallying cry is “Death to literalism” may start preparing himself for an evening of high seriousness.

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WhenJohn Carpenter’s Halloween quietly opened in Kansas City on October 25, 1978, it did not seem like the kind of movie anyone would speak kindly of — or think about at all, really — 40 years later. A low-budget horror thriller aimed primarily at secondary markets and drive-ins; even its director harbored no illusions of its being art. “That’s a programmed movie,” he told Film Comment’s Todd McCarthy. “It’s an old county-fair haunted-house movie.

For some reason, Libra season seems to have more celebrity birthdays than any of the other astrological signs. Of course, we're not complaining, as they're famously known for their beautiful aesthetics and flirtatious personalities. We've already seen people like Cardi B and Shenseea celebrate in style, and now, it's time for one of our favourite rap divas to step into mommy mode for her little one's fourth birthday. Yung Miami's daughter, Summer Miami, is officially another year older, and the City Girl made sure to go all out with her co-parent Southside to make the little one feel special.

TMZ.com Gervonta Davis just scored a big win in court -- he avoided a jail sentence in his hit-and-run case ... getting hit with three months of house arrest instead. The star boxer learned his fate inside of a Baltimore courtroom minutes ago ... less than three months after he cut a plea deal with prosecutors in the case. As part of the agreement he made with officials back on Feb.

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Jim Parks at the County Ground, Hove. Photograph: Bill Smith/Popperfoto/Bob Thomas Sports Photography/Getty ImagesJim Parks at the County Ground, Hove. Photograph: Bill Smith/Popperfoto/Bob Thomas Sports Photography/Getty ImagesEngland cricket teamObituaryJim Parks obituarySussex wicketkeeper-batsman whose selection for the England Test team was a new departure for international cricketThe selection of Jim Parks to play his second Test match for England in 1960 marked the beginning of a trend towards the pre-eminence of wicketkeeper-batsmen in international cricket.

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The president of a regional bank in China has been suspended after a video was circulated in which an official at a special training session went down a row of eight employees to deliver a hard spanking as punishment for poor performance. A second executive has also reportedly been suspended. In theory, the incident might sound like a parody of a corporate motivational session. But as the video shows, the reality was severe: a man wielding a section of wood repeatedly went up and down a row of male and female bank employees, striking them across their backsides for "