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Okay, Who At Netflix Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn “Squid Game”...
Granted, the losers in the reality-show version won't be killed, but still. In his announcement, the suit who greenlit this thanked the original series's...
The Washington Post Now Has A Hollywood Deal
"The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties culled from The...
Kevin Spacey Arraigned In UK On Four Charges Of Sexual Assault
"The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked...
Director Of Paris Opera Ballet Resigns Following Years Of Criticism
Aurélie Dupont, who is 49 and has been at the company since the age of 10, was appointed hastily following the resignation of Benjamin...
A Zen Priest Wins The 2022 Women’s Prize For Fiction
The novel has the rather Zen title The Book of Form and Emptiness, and its author is American-Canadian novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who,...
James Baldwin On Fire Island
He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959)...
Russia’s Cultural Brain Drain, In The Words Of The Brains Who Have Drained
Actress Renata Litvinova: "I suddenly realized that maybe I'm never going back." Director Kirill Serebrennikov: "I continue to allow myself the illusion that my...
How Did Stanley Kubrick Ever Get Away With Making A Hollywood Movie Out Of...
"Forced to excise or elide some of the book's thorniest elements for the sake of (the film's) being allowed to exist at all, ......
Is It Telling, In This Age Of Mistrust, That Tom Hanks Is Playing A...
"At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department." Hanks discusses finding...
Discovery Of 13,000 Ancient Artifacts Sheds Light On Lost Culture Of Sanxingdui
The find, which includes bronze, jade, gold, and ivory pieces, many intact, is at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province. The site was the...
How Pixar Grew From A Little Experimental Studio Into A Global Gold Standard For...
"Going back to its earliest days, Pixar was always a place where some minds succeeded by solving intractable problems with vim and whimsy, and...
Voguing — Dance, Subculture, Liberation Movement
The hybrid of dance, costuming, satirical mimicry and other ingredients that has provided community to several generations of Black and Hispanic queer people is...
Talking About “The Book Of Mormon” With Three Guys Who’ve Been In Its Cast...
Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale ("all the old white guys"), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) "joined a reporter at the theater...
After 110 Years, “Poetry” Magazine Has Its First Black Editor
In a Q&A, Adrian Matejka, a multiple award-winner who holds an endowed chair at Indiana University and was the state's poet laureate from 2018-19,...
Norway’s New National Museum Looks Like A High-Tech Fortress. What Is It Protecting?
"This is a building that says 'No': after years of delays, here is a complex of enormous hard-edged boxes clad in dark gray slate...
The Head Of London’s Royal Opera Writes About Race, Representation, Black- And Yellowface, And...
Oliver Mears: "Notwithstanding their subject matter, these operas are masterpieces. Instead of cancelling them we should find creative ways to live with them. ......
How Do Black Baltimoreans Feel About “The Wire” 20 Years On?
Photographer and writer Gioncarlo Valentine: "I was curious about how the community felt. Who liked it, and why? What has it been like for...
The Two Nights That Transformed Flamenco Music, 100 Years Ago
By 1922, the powerful cante jondo ("deep song") of tradition had been cutesified into the cante chico heard in cafés — and a group...
How Many Languages Should A Young Child Be Able To Pick Up?
A child in a multilingual environment? A fair number, with no particular firm ceiling, but not, say, three dozen; there are limits. This makes...
Derek Jarman’s Only Short Story Has Been Published After 51 Years
The late filmmaker (Sebastiane, Caravaggio, The Last of England) wrote "Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping" in 1971 but never had it...
Six Months Ago, Afghan Music Students Fled To Safety In Portugal. What Happens To...
In December, 300 students and teachers from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music who had escaped the Taliban government arrived in Lisbon. After half...
MAMGA! (Make America’s Malls Great Again)
With Rick Caruso, developer of upscale "lifestyle centers" (that is, malls without roofs), being one of the finalists for mayor of Los Angeles, Carolina...
Alexei Ratmansky Says The Invasion Of Ukraine Has Changed Him
Says the choreographer, who grew up in the country and has family there, "When I am in the studio, I am fully focused on...
An Irish-Language Film Has Become An Unlikely Hit In The British Isles
The Quiet Girl (original title An Cailín Ciúin) "has astonished the industry by quadrupling the previous record for an Irish language film, and by...
After 25 Years, The Director Of DC’s Arena Stage Will Retire
"Molly Smith, ... a champion of American plays and the force behind a glittering transformation of (Arena's) Washington complex, announced that she will leave...
