“I am just about to drive to East Germany to get a set that used to belong to Deutsche Reichsbahn, the GDR train service. These filters often sound wonderful, and I have quite the collection now.” - The Verge
Hayley Kiyoko was “resolute that a film version should hit on ‘all the classic tropes’ that she had watched in straight coming-of-age stories and also reflect her own experiences as a closeted teenager.” The film world was slow, so she simply wrote a book. - The New York Times
“Queenie is not polished, nor noble or aspirational. She makes bad choices repeatedly, has terrible sex, and sends regrettable messages. She is self-sabotaging and self-involved. Readers either adore her or cannot stand her.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The American art world that Church entered in the 1840s was more an aspiration than an entity. Great painting, everybody knew, was Europe’s bailiwick. American collectors bought European art, and many talented American painters hightailed it to Europe at the first opportunity.” - The Atlantic
“Snow Story Productions CEO Austin Herring said the big hits in microdramas were ‘borderline unwatchable’ when he entered the field in 2024, where salacious and soap opera-level storytelling were the norm. But he remained committed to elevating the production standard.” - TheWrap (MSN)
Oh God, indeed: "A family of Latter-Day Saints heads up Angel Studios, and a fair share of its titles across both television and film spaces are right-leaning media with Christian values.” - Salon
McDermid wasn’t a fan of the idea. “The books she wrote in the 1980s and 1990s featured characters in law enforcement who used racial and homophobic slurs to reflect attitudes that were prevalent at the time,” and she argued that most of those should remain. - The Guardian (UK)
Edward Norton: “We have extrajudicial assaults on Americans and humans going on on a daily basis now. And it’s not OK. … We cannot act like this is not happening.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
Matt Damon says action movies used to have three acts, but now, “They’re like, ‘Can we get a big one in the first five minutes? We want people to stay. And it wouldn’t be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four times in the dialogue.’” - Variety
No doubt we should believe that leadership just as much as we’d believe any questionable partner. “Opera leaders had said that it was an amicable split, and made no mention of the political turmoil causing many artists to cancel their Kennedy Center engagements." - Variety
A budget on the brink is ending his contract two years earlier than planned. "They really tried to make it work. ...But it was just not the artistic vision that I agreed to. I would just feel like kind of a lame duck artistic director.” - The New York Times
Here’s the reality for people in the U.S.: “Life in a single-occupant vehicle has its perks, like singing along to music or listening to podcasts uninterrupted. It also has its pains, like separation from other humans and mental deterioration.” - Fast Company
“Some artists are … making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re considering why these tiny dancers bring us such joy, and what lessons they might have for grown-ups.” - The New York Times
