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Why The NYT Really Sued OpenAI
The New York Times is "spending a fortune creating what’s unfortunately now called content - the articles, investigative pieces, analysis, puzzles, recipes, product recommendations...
Hollywood Is Still A Boys’ Club
At least in the director's seat, it's the old Ken Mojo Dojo Casa House all over again. - HuffPost
The Inevitable Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse Slasher Movie Is On Its Way
You see, "while modern Mickey is known for his charming personality, Steamboat Willie Mickey was more menacing with his propensity to use his fellow animals as...
A New Gilbert And Sullivan Opera?
In Britain, the call has gone out for everyone to check attics, garrets, and old bookshelves: "The original score of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia...
Elvis Costello Saw A Depressing Movie, So He Made A Musical From It, Of...
Cold War (the 2018 movie, and the new musical) "is a microcosm of the tragedy of a Poland wallowing in hardship and paranoia." -...
The Golden Globes Became Too Big To Fail
"At a time when the film industry is still struggling with deep existential anxieties, ... for many in Hollywood the impetus to look past...
The Man Who Made ‘Seven Brides For Seven Brothers’ 100 Percent Less Rapey Would...
"David Landay, the only one of the 1982 show’s four writers who is alive, added a prologue and revised the plot so that the...
How Close Will This Year’s Hollywood Get To Pre-Pandemic Levels?
It seems odd to think that in a year with two massive strikes and 20 fewer movies released than in 2019, the industry might...
Can Users Solve The Review Bombing Issues On Goodreads?
Amazon certainly doesn't seem to want to solve the issue by, say, verifying review writers. Now it's asking Goodreads users, along with a team...
Looking Back On The Wildest Art Stories Of 2023
Van Gogh wasn't cooking with onions, the British Museum wasn't keeping good track of its items, and then, you know, Michelangelo's David wasn't actually...
The Quiets Are Winning TV, Again
Who could have predicted that on Netflix, Ginny & Georgia's numbers would be so far ahead of The Witcher - or The Crown? (Anyone...
Seems Like The New Yorker’s Takedown Of Hasan Minhaj Helped His Career Out
"More art than ever leans on the trust and authenticity of journalism, so it’s good for performers to think about the peculiar bargain they...
The Purest Reflection Of Messy Existence
"If you want to know who someone truly is—what they eat, what books they read, what movies they watch, or how furious they get inside...
We May Be Losing The Cultural Language Of Disney
Disney turned 100 in 2023 (as you've no doubt heard ad nauseam). Its founder's "legacy was the production of a modern shared language, a...
Gaming Giant Activision Blizzard Owes Millions After Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
The California "Civil Rights Department sued the Santa Monica-based Call of Duty maker in 2021, alleging that women at the company were regularly subjected...
Queen Eliezabeth II Was One Of The More Boring Monarchs Ever
So how in the world did The Crown make for years of compelling viewing? - Boston Globe
Iconic Chicago Sculptor Richard Hunt Has Died At 88
Hunt was the first Black artist with a solo retrospective at New York's MoMA, and he "recently completed a model for a monument to...
The Rare Pandemic Moment When The U.S. Government Was Generous To The Arts
At the Alley Theatre in Houston, "when the PPP money was announced, which was just within about a couple of weeks of laying everybody...
New SAG-AFTRA Contract Should Help Actors With Hair, Skin Needs
If a production "fails to hire a stylist who can do the job in-house, the actor must be reimbursed for paying qualified personnel for...
You Might Think There Aren’t Wardrobe Supervisors For The Reality Show Survivor
You'd be very, very wrong. "Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor and its executive producer and showrunner, said clothing was at the foundation of...
Apparently, Ryan Gosling Wanted To Dance A Duet With Ken’s Mink Coat In Barbie
Greta Gerwig: Gosling thought "he would have a dance duet with his mink and that the mink would be fighting him and then love...
Can The Film Poor Things Overcome – Or Change – Gen Z’s Apparent Aversion...
"It's really common to see violent scenes, ... but as soon as sex comes up, that becomes a really big complicated issue, whereas we're...
The Ohio Guy Who Made The Library E-Book App
In the 1980s, Steve Potash wanted law books and forms available on computers - so he digitized them himself. Thus was OverDrive, which now...
That Time Jeff Koons Killed A Critic’s Review
Remy Golan, an art history professor whose review for Brooklyn Rail was tanked by Koons, says, "I thought it was pathetic. ... Supposedly these...
The Return Of Physical Media
VHS tapes are back, baby. And DVDs, Blu-Rays, cassette tapes, essentially anything that a streaming corporation can't surveill - or suddenly yank away. ...
