Oscar race is long, arduous but it's clear ‘Hamnet' has legs

I was too young to enjoy the "golden age of travel." But if Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy really wants to return to the days when air travel was a ring-a-ding-ding good time, don't the airlines have to do their part too? Maybe the cramped cabins, inedible meals and endless delays are making us all a little cranky. And maybe the incivility and disrespect that Duffy's boss displays on a daily basis has a way of coarsening the way people behave in public.

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If a return to a “golden age of travel” means bringing back piano bars on airplanes, however, I'll dust off my fedora and be first in line to pack up and fly away. I'm Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times and host of The Envelope newsletter, wondering how you survived this past weekend. Maybe you stayed local and went to see “Hamnet”? Let's talk. ‘Hamnet’ has its critics, but audiences are behind it

Steven Spielberg introduced “Hamnet” at the movie's Academy Museum premiere a couple of weeks ago, saying that director Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell’s 2020 novel about William Shakespeare's family life were “made for each other.”