Funny Girl

dvr this Turner Classic Movies Saturday, June 7 2:15 p.m. If you are one of the few people still watching Glee, you’ll know that Rachel (Lea Michelle) has inexplicably been cast as the lead in a Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the musical that made Barbra Streisand a Broadway star and then a movie star….

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Blue Jasmine

dvd of the week In Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen has provided Cate Blanchett, arguably the greatest actress of her generation, her greatest role – a woman destroyed by her own pretensions. The film’s comedy is in the nervous discomfort of class warfare, the clueless vapidity of the rich and capitalistic. It is Allen going to…

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Treasury notice advances federal tax equality for same-sex married couples

From the U.S. Department of the Treasury: The Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor last June, invalidating a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, has given rise to crucial protections to same-sex married couples nationwide. In August, Treasury and IRS helped to clarify the federal tax implications of Windsor by determining that…

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