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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....
The EU Strongly Suggests The US Join Its Fight To Regulate AI
Here's the issue with a lack of US regulation: "If the EU’s forthcoming AI Act isn’t matched with US rules for AI, it will be more...
The Years When The US Thought The Swastika Was A Fashion Symbol
We're not talking about the Bund or other Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. - of course they liked it. But its use "was widespread...
Director Shekhar Kapur Says Some Diverse Casts Are Driven By Guilt
Kapur thinks that series like Bridgerton have casts possibly more diverse than historical record because there's guilt over actors not getting work. Instead, he...
Jane Birkin, ‘French Icon,’ Actor, Musician, And Eponymous Bag Inventor, 76
Birkin "helped define chic female sexuality of the 1970s as an actress in arty and erotic European movies and in her relationship — equal...
Why Are Music Memoirs Big Business Right Now?
There's one very good reason: In 2012, publisher Faber committed to "campaigns that applied lessons learned from record labels, a faster-moving industry – creating...
Is There Any Privacy-Protecting Way To Use New AI Tools?
Maybe, but probably not. "It's worth putting some guardrails in place right at the start of your journey with these tools, or indeed deciding...
The Historic – And Wide-Ranging – Disruptions Of The Hollywood Strikes
For the producers, "There isn’t a leader or leaders who have volunteered to handle this and to be the focal point of the discussion....
Painting Through Unimaginable Grief
Luella Bartley, famous British designer whose oldest, artist child died two years ago at age 18: "I wouldn’t say that I have acceptance, but...
The Writers And Actors Are Striking For All Of Us
"Almost nobody is immune to the risk that A.I. could devalue their economic position, even though A.I. will also have widespread benefits." - The...
How Director Agnes Varda Turned Her Photographs Into Films
Varda was a photographer first, and for her first film, La Pointe Courte, "she really worked on the photos – it was more than...
Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life In Europe During The War, Has Died At...
Minco "described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II, based on her own experiences." Her first book, Het...
Why Does It Matter Than 90 Percent Of Historic Video Games Are Impossible To...
It's our history. And right now, for a definition of "classic" that means before 2010 (!), "the availability of classic games is only slightly better than the...
The English Is Coming
Never fear, Europe. Though the language itself seems to have invaded every corner of France, an announced focus on English this summer at the...
Octavia Butler’s Seemingly Prophetic Parable Of The Sower Is Now An Opera
The book, published 30 years ago, is a classic that took on new relevance during recent events. Co-writer Toshi Reagon: "Singing this story evokes...
Private Museum In India Fires Curator Over Anti-Modi Personal Social Media Post
"Sandip K. Luis, the former curatorial research and publications manager at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in Noida, was formally terminated from...
