With emotions high on both sides of the field, Connecticut secured its first victory since the death of Jasper Howard and the Irish lost a second consecutive senior day game.

Notre Dame’s Loss Leaves Charlie Weis Hanging by a Thread

“Pirate Latitudes” has unremarkable ambitions, standard genre flourishes and the stiff, uncomfortable tone of early work.

Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger

Patricia Racette, a versatile, dramatically astute performer, tackled all the heroines of Puccini’s three one-act operas.

Desperate Woman Times 3

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” sold a supernatural $140.7 million in tickets over the weekend in North American theaters.

‘Twilight’ Dawns Bright at the Box Office

New releases from Rihanna, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Shakira, Susan Boyle and Leona Lewis.

New CDs

Robert Longbottom’s revival of “Dreamgirls” is a bluntly drawn, pastels-saturated production.

Hopeful Divas Back Where It All Began

An answer in the Social Q’s column last Sunday misspelled the given name of a character in the TV show “Dynasty.” She is Krystle Carrington, not Crystal.

Corrections

A picture caption last Sunday with the Generation B column, about Sara Davis Buechner, a transgender pianist, misidentified her current hometown. It is Vancouver, British Columbia; it is no longer the Bronx.

This program creates a moment-by-moment account of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy from numerous film and photographic sources.

In Small Details, a Day That Stunned the Nation

Based on the first episode of “Find My Family,” soul means tears.

Reuniting Lost Relations, Leaving Time for Tears

Items from Elvis Presley and the Beatles were on the block, but Michael Jackson was the star of a New York auction on Saturday.

Michael Jackson’s Glove, Saint Laurent’s Umbrella Stand

Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television are teaming up with the author Stephen King to produce a limited series for cable based on Mr. King’s latest novel, “Under the Dome,” Variety reported.

Dreamworks Looks ‘Under the Dome’

Jennifer Hudson has been cast in the title role of “Winnie,” a film about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, Variety reported.

Winnie Mandela, by Jennifer Hudson

According to Variety, Peter Iliff has been hired to write a live-action film based on “American Gladiators.”

Footnote

Forbes has compiled a list of the 10 most overpaid Hollywood stars in the last five years, and the winner (or loser) is the comic actor Will Ferrell.

Will Ferrell Tops Most Overpaid List

According to The Guardian, representatives from Oxfam, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association met to create a plan to help redirect business back to local secondhand booksellers.

Oxfam and Booksellers Agree to Plan

A Long Island mall appearance by the 15-year-old pop singer Justin Bieber ended in minor injuries and one arrest after fans became unruly, The Associated Press reported.

Justin Bieber Fans in Melee at a Mall

An article last Sunday about H. Rodgin Cohen, the chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, who played a significant role in the Wall Street bailout, referred imprecisely to the proximity of Minneapolis to Grand Rapids, Minn., where Mr. Cohen and his wife, Barbara, were married. Her hometown, Grand Rapids, is about 200 miles by car, so it would not be considered “not far” from Minneapolis.

Postscript

A double-overtime loss to Connecticut dropped Notre Dame to 6-5 this season and 35-26 in five seasons under Charlie Weis.

Weis Says His Firing Would Be Understandable

Within a week, the actors Jessica Hecht and Santino Fontana went from closing “Brighton Beach Memoirs” to landing parts in “A View From the Bridge.”

Refugees From a Flop, Broadway Bound Again

The singer Ann Hampton Callaway brought the house to its feet as the New York Pops orchestra celebrated the centennial of the songwriter Johnny Mercer.

Those Amorous Lyrics, Borrowed From the Birds

The Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval performed Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer.”

The John Henry Who Might Have Been

Everything the organist Cameron Carpenter did during his concert was meant to show his audience exactly what he was up to, without compromising the serious music he played.

November 22, 2009

Headlines from November 22, 2009

Notre Dame’s Loss Leaves Charlie Weis Hanging by a Thread

Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger

Desperate Woman Times 3

‘Twilight’ Dawns Bright at the Box Office

New CDs

Billboard 200

Play On

Michael Jackson's This Is It (Soundtrack)

My Christmas

Glee: Season One: The Music Volume 1

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Historical Context for November 22, 2009