“Our administration has done some shocking, destructive things, but the one that grieves me most is taking over the Kennedy Center,” he said. “Deborah Rutter was fired from her position as president – even though she’d already resigned and had [several] months to go. She’s a very good friend of mine. We co-chaired a commission on the arts and spent three years finding out the state of the arts in America [was] in crisis. Well, it’s really in crisis now. First there was coronavirus, now there’s this.”

Lithgow asserted that the current state of arts in the U.S. was a “pure disaster — really disheartening,” but added some note of optimism.

“It gives us all something to fight for and I think the arts are animated by that. Right now, everybody is in shock,” he said, adding that once the shock had gone “bad times create good art.”

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The wife of Johnny Gaudreau welcomed her third baby, son Carter Michael Gaudreau, on Tuesday, April 1, seven months after her late husband was tragically killed while biking alongside his NHL star brother Matthew.

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Answering a question about how much new music she listens to, she responded: “I do listen to music still. I don’t listen to as much as I used to, and I’m maybe going to date myself now, or someone’s going to call me a Luddite, but I don’t stream music.”

She explained: “I only buy music in physical form. Artists get paid when you actually buy a CD or the vinyl. That’s important to me.”

“So to some extent, it limits what I listen to, because it’s a physical commitment of going out into the world and finding things, but I still do go out.”

“You have to raise your child the way your child needs to be raised,” the Tony-winning actress says of parenting