Dave Eggers
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NY Times Contributor Blasts Trump’s White House as ‘Almost Completely Devoid of Culture’
Novelist Dave Eggers on Saturday took the Trump White House task on a new front: the unprecedented absence of, and hostility to, culture and the arts. “This White House has been, and is likely to remain, home to the first presidency in American history that is almost completely devoid of culture,” Eggers wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times that quickly gained traction on social media. Eggers noted that unlike under previous presidents, the Trump White House had sponsored no musical concert
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'The Circle' Review: Take My Privacy, Please
Emma Watson and Tom Hanks in 'The Circle,' a shrewdly ominous corporate thriller about the death of privacy fingers the proper culprits — namely, us
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'A Hologram for the King' Review: Perfectly Cast Tom Hanks Faces Irrelevance in Dave Eggers Dramedy
The movie gets off to a bright, bitter start with a fantasy sequence set to Talking Heads’ anti-ode to middle-class angst, “Once in a Lifetime,” and Hanks’ down-on-his luck Alan Clay wondering “How did I get here?” “Here” being divorced, broke and heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to oversee a presentation of a whiz-bang teleconferencing system. The pitch is make-or-break for Alan, who got the consulting gig not for his skills but because of a vague social connection to the royal family. Hanks
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Tom Hanks Takes a Fall in Exclusive Clip From ‘A Hologram for the King’
Exclusive clip from upcoming film written and directed by Tom Tykwer from the novel by Dave Eggers, starring Oscar winner as a struggling American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia for a crucial pitch that may help him regain his financial footing.
