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Most American citizens learned about Manual George Santos’s sample of extraordinary fabrications in a Contemporary York Instances document after he won election to Congress, however a local newspaper known as the North Shore Chief had sounded the alarm months earlier. The Contemporary Yorker workers creator Clare Malone took a visit to Lengthy Island to learn the intention the memoir started. “We heard memoir after memoir after memoir about him doing peculiar issues,” the Chief’s publisher, Grant Lally, says. “Santos would deliver one lie to one particular person, one other lie to one other particular person, and we would hear from both of these folk, [and] compare notes.” Plus, the workers creator Michael Schulman discusses why the Academy Awards dwell relevant; and we visit the ninety-four-twelve months-used Broadway composer Charles Strouse, who is making ready his archive for the Library of Congress. Strouse’s song for “Annie” made it the gateway drug into musical theatre for generations of children.

A Native Paper First Sounded the Terror on George Santos. No person Listened

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Clare Malone speaks with the publisher and the managing editor of the North Shore Chiefthe local newspaper that first uncovered George Santos’s lies. Why used to be he elected anyway?

Earn the Oscars Constantly Received It Immoral?

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The employees creator Michael Schulman talks concerning the history detailed in his new e-book, “Oscar Wars,” and why the awards dwell relevant in an generation of declining theatre attendance.

The Composer Charles Strouse on “Annie,” and Working with Jay-Z

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At age ninety-four, Strouse is compiling his archives to donate to the Library of Congress. The producer Jeffrey Masters joins him at dwelling to replicate on his existence and occupation.

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