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The Actor Awards Showed That An Awards Presentation Could Actually Be Kind Of Fun
“Because it streamed on Netflix, there was no bleeping of F-bombs. Winners were not played off by an orchestra. The banter was not as...
A Conspiracy Theory That A Jim Carrey Doppelganger Picked Up His Honorary Cesar Is...
This is where we are with the internet now: The man in charge of the Césars (the “French Oscars”) had to say, "“From the...
SNL Took A Great Moment, Tossed In Some Athletes, And Made It All Intensely...
"It does not take a communications professional, though I am one, to recognize this for what it is.” - Slate (Yahoo!)
Why Did Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Suddenly Appear On Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy?
Turns out the youth are going to be putting on this play for … pretty much ever? “Our Town just sort of felt like...
Dakota And Elle Fanning Started Out As Child Stars In Hollywood
But the sisters are following in the footsteps of leaders like Reese Weatherspoon and Viola Davis, becoming producers who have more control over their...
Native Artist Hand-Stitches ‘Bead Bomb’ Projects Onto Utility Poles In LA
”At the edge of a Home Depot parking lot where federal immigration agents have violently detained vendors and others,” a utility pole “carries a band of color with...
In A Time Of Lies, Sudden Wars, And AI Hallucinations, We Desperately Need Live...
“The performing arts, with their warm embrace of subjectivity, might not seem the most likely corrective amid this crisis. But they have much to...
What’s On The Line As Warner Bros Accepts Paramount’s Bid
Oh: “The push into artificial intelligence by Oracle creates a thirst for more insight into how people view news and entertainment and what products...
Epstein Was Asked, Briefly, To Finance A Dick Cavett Biography
Luckily for Cavett, "the documentary was never made because WNET completed a background check on Mr. Epstein and decided it did not want him...
Baz Luhrmann Can’t Stop Making Movies About Elvis Presley
Luhrmann’s new Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert “is far from the conventional concert movie its title implies,” thanks to a 40-minute never before released...
New York Gets A New Culture Czar At A Fraught Economic Moment
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Diya Vij a "visionary and deeply thoughtful leader who understands that art is not ornamental to this city — it...
The Writers Guild Awards Are Cancelled Thanks To A Staff Strike
Sure, there may be an “alternative celebration” later, but basically, “with 115 Writers Guild of America staffers still on strike after months of...
In South Florida, Two Public Media Giants Are Battling It Out In Court
It’s South Florida Public Media Group versus a South Florida NPR school board affiliate, playing out both at the FCC and in the Miami-Dade...
Who’s Going To Pay Out For The Kevin Spacey Cancellation And Implosion Of House...
“The question at the center of the case: What actually killed Spacey’s appearance from the sixth season of the show? … A win for...
Benjamin Millepied’s New, Mixed-Genre Romeo And Juliet Comes To The Armory
The choreographer: “You fall in love with characters that you see live in the flesh, in front of your eyes. … But then when...
The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More
The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar...
A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago...
Klaus Mäkelä is "stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to...
The Vatican Has Removed ‘A Chalky White Film Of Salt’ Coating The Last Judgement
That is to say, people’s sweat had gotten all over Michelangelo’s masterpiece, and now it’s being cleaned off while the sweat accumulates on a...
The Debate Over What To Do With Portland’s Earthquake-Unsafe 3,000-Seat Theatre
Protesters have begun telling the city council exactly what they think of the idea to abandon the big theatre. “If you don’t renovate the...
The Library Of Congress Has Found The Likely First Depiction Of A Robot On...
“The 45-second-long, one-reel short Gugusse et l'Automate – Gugusse and the Automaton – was made nearly 130 years ago. But the subject matter still feels timely.”...
When The Reviewer Isn’t Sure If The Play Is Great Or Terrible
"There is a way to describe this show that will make it seem, at worst, exactly like every cliché of venturing into Brooklyn to...
Millions Of People Are Hooked On ‘Microdramas,’ With Episodes That Last About One Minute
On a K-microdrama set, “filming was moving at breakneck speed. Everything was shot in vertical mode, and nothing was subtle.” - BBC
How The BAFTAs And The BBC Absolutely Bungled Their Response To A Racist Slur
“Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be...
The Los Angeles Olympics Logo Needs To Settle Itself Down
“If you're going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around,...
Neil Sedaka, Composer And Songwriter Of So Many Pop Hits, Has Died At 86
Sedaka “went from classical music prodigy to precocious songwriter to teenage idol to pop music fixture in a celebrated career that spanned seven decades.”...
