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Darlings of New York’s late-1970s music scene, David Byrne and his bandmates started as a defiantly simple act and gradually took on a lusher sound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The actors have been together for a decade after reportedly meeting on the set of film Kill Your Darlings in 2013.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2023

Darlings get killed left and right when movies are made, not because the scenes aren’t good, but because their service to the story is weak or has been achieved elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

Some of the best of this material is collected in a piercing book titled “Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

He threw off, carelessly, "I hear you go a good deal to the Darlings'!"

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil