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So, Is Greta Gerwig A Sell-out With Barbie?
"With Gerwig, there was always the sense that independent cinema meant a great deal to her, and so fans have felt disappointed. ... Gerwig...
Can A Male Soprano Bring New Audiences To Opera?
That's Samuel Mariño's goal, anyway. "I really love this music," says the 29-year-old soprano, who's appearing at Glyndebourne in Handel's Semele, "and I think...
Want To Read Banned Books In Your Area?
An app is coming to your rescue (surely it will be banned soon as well). Digital Public Library of America officials say they use...
The ‘Garden-Variety Shit Show’ Of Flooding At Hamptons Art Fair
One gallerist said that "the tents were built over ground-level plywood rather than on above-ground risers, like one would see at other art fairs....
Is There A Power Broker In Hollywood Who Can End The Strikes?
Not really. "The studios that now must figure out how to appease actors and writers are wildly different in size and have diverging priorities....
And What Are Social Media Influencers Supposed To Do Around The Strikes?
"SAG-AFTRA has published guidelines for how influencers should operate during the strike, calling on them to not promote struck companies or content unless obligated to do...
So During The Strikes, What’s The Deal With Celebrity Podcasts?
Looks like no one fully knows. "The actors hosting podcasts that recap the TV shows It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, One Tree Hill and...
Is The Entertainment Industry Collapsing, Or Simply Going Through A Remodel?
"Netflix and all these other streaming services debuted in an environment where shareholders were encouraging them to spend money for growth. Interest rates were...
Met Trustee’s Lawyer Claims She Didn’t Knowingly Buy Looted Art
"Since February, the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has returned 29 antiquities from White collection’s to Greece, 12 to Turkey, four to Iraq, two to China and...
Tony Bennett Had A Preternatural Gift Of Coming Back Into Style, Again And Again
Had Bennett listened to "outside noise instead of his gut, he would’ve missed out on his greatest hits, an enormous second life in his...
In Portland, A Massive Shakeup For Arts Funding Presages Potential Chaos
Portland is taking a huge pot of money from a regional arts council - as "the tri-county area is in the midst of developing...
This Is Probably The Last Happy Hollywood Weekend For A While
"In the past few weeks, as the 'Barbenheimer' hype grew, so did the animosity between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
Barbie Drives A High Weekend Box Office
"Barbie has gone boom. The film was a gambit by Mattel to enter the filmmaking space, costing $145 million to produce, not to mention more...
Most People Have No Clue About The ‘Right’ Way To Perform Karaoke
No groups on stage. No quiet, shy performances. And never, ever cut someone off in the middle of a song. - Slate
The Camelot Star Transmitting Shakespeare Skills Between The Acts
"The earliest of Matthews’s Shakespeare workshops for fellow cast members was in 2001, for ... Romeo and Juliet in Los Angeles. He also held...
The Studios Are Doing It To Themselves
As Bob Iger seems to blame Disney+ for blockbusters' lack of, uh, busting in recent months, "Who knew that convincing audiences they no longer...
Librarians Can Do Anything, Even Get Barack Obama On TikTok
This week, Kankakee Public Library's TikTok features the former president "drinking out of a library-branded mug and leafing through a paperback. It’s the first...
Orange Is The New Black Actor Kimiko Glenn Talks About All The Second Jobs...
The actors weren't - and aren't - getting paid a ton. Glenn: Some of the other actors "were fucking famous as shit, like internationally...
Trying To Teach A Post-2001 Generation About The Trauma Of The Towers
"Their generation has come-of-age in a pandemic that killed millions of people and laid bare incredible systemic inequities. ... Many of my students don’t know...
When A Reporter Falls In Love With A Musical
A French musical based on a Hugo novel, but still. "A song debating the merits of the printing press at the top of Act II after...
Sounds Like Portland Might Want To Build A New Hall Elsewhere And Demolish The...
The options for renovating Portland's not-at-all-earthquake-safe, landmark-in-downtown big hall aren't great. Now, the city is checking out ideas for a new site, "which would...
Don’t Mistake These Strikes As A Whine From The Privileged
No indeed: We're all essentially the background actors. "If a digital replica of you — without your bothersome need for money and the time...
More Than 100 Tourists Get Stuck At Agatha Christie’s Home
Does it sound like a Christie plot? "That joke was not lost on the nerve-rattled people left with nothing to do but wander around...
Colson Whitehead On Writing A Trilogy, But Hedging His Bets
"If you do two, you might as well do three! But when Harlem Shuffle came out I didn’t say it was the first in a trilogy,...
Wait, Another Napoleon Movie?
Why, and why now? After all, "no figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies. ... Every generation gets a Napoleon....
