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Let’s End The ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Curse Now
“Taking home one of the industry’s most prestigious awards might seem to indicate that an actress is one worth paying attention to, making it...
Britain Released An Official Photo Of Kate As Proof Of Life – Then The...
Speculation has been absolutely rife online about Catherine, Princess of Wales, and the photo was supposed to calm it down. But "at closer inspection,...
When This French Actress Had Trouble Landing Roles, She Made Her Own Play, And...
"The production is testament to Blanc’s ability to forge a lasting career in a performance landscape that has often felt hostile to her. …...
Oregon Finally Passed Some Arts Funding, But Left A Major Museum And Most Smaller...
The state legislature hadn’t funded the arts at all during its regular session in 2023, so “news was both good and bad Thursday ......
Songwriters Are Terrified Of AI
And rightly so. "Any person could put into an AI programme something like ‘I want a song 100 BPM that sounds like a cross...
The Polarizing Movie That Paved The Way For Barbie-Mania
“Before the buzzy movie debuted, paparazzi photos of the costumed stars began leaking from the location shoot. When the premiere rolled around, it was...
Revered Editor And Writer William Whitworth Has Died At 87
Whitworth "wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker ... and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor...
With Contract Negotiations Coming Up, Jimmy Kimmel Brought Crew Members To The Oscars Stage
After honoring and thanking the crew members, "Kimmel turned to leave the crew members with a final promise. 'Thank you for standing with us,'...
The Thing New Actors Misunderstand About The Job
Acting coach Howard Fine says that acting is “incredibly tough,” and if it’s not your passion, you better step away. - Slate
How Far Can A Writer Push Fiction’s Boundaries?
Kathryn Scanlon, winner of the Gordon Burn prize, says, "I love that you could come to this book and not really know what it...
Past Lives Conveys So Much About The Immigrant Experience
"Like Nora, I had lofty dreams and thought of America as my salvation of sorts. The place where I could achieve things I’d never...
Roku Is Now Locking Up TVs For People Who Don’t Want To Agree To...
To opt out, “users must send a letter to Roku's general counsel in California mentioning: 'the name of each person opting out and contact...
Live Updates From The Oscars
As they happen! - Los Angeles Times
Screenwriter Accuses Alexander Payne Of Plagiarizing Script Of The Holdovers
Luca screenwriter Simon Stephenson wrote that "the evidence The Holdovers screenplay has been plagiarised line-by-line from Frisco is genuinely overwhelming – anybody who looks at even...
Why Are Oscar Voters About To Award The Wrong Song From Barbie?
"Only one song from Barbie was a cultural sensation, a TikTok masterpiece, a showstopping earworm—and it’s the other nominated song, the one that’s probably going to lose on...
After The Activision Blizzard’s Merger With Microsoft, Workers Form Gaming’s Largest-Yet Union
Quality assurance workers for Activision, who play games constantly to find and report bugs, or problems, say they’re often the lowest-paid workers in the...
In Florida, Two Young Boys Are Arrested For Creating Deepfake Nudes Of Classmates
To blame? AI (and some very poor teenage decision-making). "As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents...
The ‘Invisible’ Art Of Film Editing, And The Women Who Have Long Ruled That...
In the early days of Hollywood, “because many people saw film editing – or cutting, as it was called then – as unglamorous, secretarial...
Akira Toriyama, Creator Of The Hugely Popular Comic And Anime Dragon Ball, Has Died...
Dragon Ball got its start in 1984, and “to many fans, Son Goku's journey from a kid who fumbles his martial arts training to...
Artist Ricky Sencion Celebrates The Pink Sheep Of Los Angeles
Sencion "posted his first sheep on the streets of L.A. in March 2013. , the artist has amassed an inventory of thousands of his...
Performance Space New York Goes With A Triple-Leader Model
In a performance arts space, why not have three women with an equal vote making major decisions - and figuring out how to fund...
The Year In Movies Was Surprising, Tough, And Unpredictable; Long May That Last
However … "The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures." - Washington Post
Radio Hosts Are Another Profession On The Brink
As if radio work isn’t troubled enough, here comes artificial intelligence. - CBC
Writers Stuck In A Rut Should Go Pick Up A Camera
What kind of camera doesn’t matter, but thinking about everything from framing devices to length of exposure surely can kick the writing gears back...
The Oscars Weren’t Always About Fashion
As a matter of fact, the whole fashion discussion was cooked up by Hollywood’s PR people to get television on board - and hiring...
