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Garth Brooks, Arsenio Hall and more big entertainment comebacks of 2013

Originally published: December 12, 2013 5:39 PMUpdated: December 24, 2013 10:42 AM

Photo credit: AP | Garth Brooks performs at the 42nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. (June 16, 2011)

MOVIES

Bruce Dern. After 50 years of supporting roles, this familiar character actor is suddenly an A-list star. For his lead performance as an aging father in Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," Dern won best actor at Cannes and has been strolling various red carpets ever since. It's clearly an Oscar campaign, and a win would be the first for the 77-year-old. He was nominated once, for 1978's "Coming Home."

Jared Leto. The actor-rocker has recently turned down roles to focus on his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars. This year, however, he returned to the screen in a big way with "Dallas Buyers Club." Leto's portrayal of Rayon, a transgender woman living with AIDS during the mid-1980s, is rightly being hailed as one of the year's best performances. So, what about the band? As it happens, their tour schedule has a conspicuous lull around March 2, Oscar Sunday.

Robert Redford. The 77-year-old didn't just carry a movie this year, he did so single-handedly: He's the only actor in "All Is Lost," a drama about a sailor stranded in the Indian Ocean. The result has been glowing reviews and strong Oscar buzz. Redford won a statue for directing 1980's "Ordinary People," but an acting nomination would be his first since 1974, when he was up for "The Sting."

-- RAFER GUZMN

POP MUSIC

David Bowie. Everything about Bowie's impressive year was done in secret. His album "The Next Day," his first in a decade, was recorded in private, hush-hush sessions and released with little warning and no fanfare. Following Bowie's heart attack in 2004, it wasn't clear whether he would ever record again, much less create something so impressively forward-looking and memorable.

Nile Rodgers. The legendary Chic mastermind and guitarist bounced back from a battle with prostate cancer in 2010 as funky and fine as ever. He was the driving force for Daft Punk's global smash "Get Lucky" and the standout track "Lose Yourself to Dance." He set up shop in the Hamptons this summer to work with the hottest EDM artists, including Avicii and David Guetta, on their songs and on some previously unreleased Chic material. This comeback is far from over.

Garth Brooks. He is certainly a man of his word. Brooks announced in 2001 that he was going to put music on hold to raise his daughters after he divorced their mom. With his youngest daughter set to graduate from high school, Brooks is ready to return to music. He unveiled his well-crafted one-man show, "Blame It All on My Roots," in Las Vegas and in a CBS special, as well as a new boxed set.

-- GLENN GAMBOA

TV

Arsenio Hall. Gone almost two decades, the late-night host who changed late night TV -- then pretty much disappeared -- returned this year to try to reorder the landscape once again. Whether he ultimately succeeds still remains unknown, but he returned with his charm intact, and even managed to put on a show that reminded some fans why they liked him so much in the first place.

"Homeland." Hey, it didn't go anywhere so how can it "come back"? In fact, "Homeland" crash-landed after a soaring first season. Needed (badly) was a new direction, a reason for being, and a gritty new story line that returned the show to its scarily plausible roots. The third season hasn't been perfect by any means, but there have been enough good episodes to re-reinforce "must-see" status.

"All My Children" and "One Life to Live." It's up to fans to decide whether their historic revival on Hulu was worth all the trouble, but the revival remains indisputably historic. Beloved soaps simply don't return after cancellation, but these did. Unfortunately, their first season on Hulu may also be their last. Their production company has yet to confirm reports that the revival is kaput, undone by labor disputes and other cost issues.

-- VERNE GAY

THEATER

Julie Taymor. After the horror show that became "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," the visionary director-designer answered with a deliriously beautiful, deeply magical staging of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the remarkable new Brooklyn home for Theatre for a New Audience. She is the real thing.

Cicely Tyson. In her first time on Broadway in 30 years, she was amazing -- radiant, shrewd, utterly natural -- in the revival of Horton Foote's wistful seriocomedy. Was she 79 or 88 when the play opened last spring? The artist isn't saying.

Laurie Metcalf. OK, she wasn't exactly invisible as Roseanne Barr's sister on TV. But this magnificent actress, a young star at Steppenwolf Theatre in the '70s, came back to New York theater -- big time -- as an unraveling scientist in "The Other Place" and the unpredictable wife of a politician in a sex scandal in "Domesticated."

-- LINDA WINER

BOOKS

Stephen King. He's baa-ack. Well, not really King, who hasn't left for one minute, but Danny Torrance, the 5-year-old psychic in "The Shining," the 1977 novel that established his creator's career. In "Dr. Sleep," Dan has grown up tormented and been driven to drink by his telepathic abilities. Fortunately, a cult of wannabe immortals and a magical child show up to make him relevant again. Take that, child-abusing demons.

Elizabeth Gilbert. Though Gilbert's "Eat Pray Love" sold millions of copies and practically started a cult, it caused her to be dismissed as a serious writer and overwhelmed all memory of her earlier books. "The Signature Of All Things" reintroduced her to serious readers as a novelist with an ambitious and delightfully written saga of a 19th century woman biologist whose scientific and personal explorations illuminate all the big ideas of that era.

Robert Galbraith. His mystery "The Cuckoo's Calling," in which a washed-up cop investigates the suicide of a supermodel, was a critical success from the start, but the reading public didn't lose its head until the big reveal ... Mr. Galbraith was actually Ms. Rowling! J.K. Rowling, that is. From an 8,500-copy stallout to international bestseller lists overnight -- now that's a comeback.

-- MARION WINIK

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Session With Students in Kabul

MIDDLEBURY Farahnaz Afaq, a Westover senior and the schools first student from Afghanistan, connected two groups of students half a world away from one another in a Skype session on November 8 with the help of Westovers Interim Director of Global Programs Kate Taylor.

Ms. Afaq came to Westover this fall after spending two years at a British school.

Previously, she had been a student at the School of Leadership, Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan.

SOLA was founded by American educator Ted Achilles as a boarding school to provide Afghan girls with greater opportunities for education.

You have to study at SOLA for at least a year, and then they will find a school or university abroad where you can go and continue your studies. Ms. Afaq explained she studied at SOLA for a year and a half before continuing her education in Britain.

Fifteen students and three faculty members joined in the half hour Skype session with about 20 SOLA students in Kabul.

I thought it would be a good idea to connect Afghan girls with Westover students, Ms. Afaq explained.

Their life experiences and their stories are completely different from one another. Most students here know very little about Afghanistan many of them have only heard the name of the country in the news and that is it.

After the Skype session, Ms. Afaqs impression is that Westover students were rather shocked by the stories the SOLA students shared with them.

The Westover students were asking them what they did for fun, what kind of sports they played, things like that, she recalled.

The responses from the SOLA students gave the American students a new perspective.

Ms. Afaq commented, I think they found out how lucky they are. They heard stories from the Afghan students that showed that in Afghanistan they had to be more serious about life and about what they had to go through to get a better education.

Westover students dont have to think so much about security, about food, about how they are going to get the supplies they need at school. They learned that for some of the girls to get an education there it is a matter or life or death.

Dhalia Tejada, a Westover junior who was one of the students at the Skype session, said the exchange reminded her of how privileged girls in America are to have access to satisfactory schooling.

During the session, she added, the SOLA students encouraged their Westover counterparts not to think of their culture as a culture of terrorism. They also wanted to tell us how beautiful Afghanistan was, and that it is not just a war zone as the media portrays it to be.

Ms. Afaq and Ms. Taylor hope to have future Skype sessions later in the school year, perhaps with students in Somalia.

In addition to future Skype sessions and possible school trips to attend culture fairs around the area, Ms. Afaq will also offer a Chapel Talk about Islam.

She has established a new Westover club with Ms. Taylor, the International Student Alliance, as a way of supporting all of Westovers international students and offering another venue for them to share and learn about the students diverse cultures, experiences, and backgrounds.

At the schools C.O.L.O.R.E.S. Festival, an annual fall cultural fair that features food, performances, and other activities organized by Westovers student clubs, the International Student Alliance club offered visitors to their table henna tattoos and recreated aspects of the Hindu Holi Festival of Colors, which includes participants tossing brightly colored powders into the air and over each other.

Ms. Taylor praised Ms. Afaqs efforts, Shes trying for both breadth and depth, covering a number of cultures in an authentic way.

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