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And Now To Explain Why So Many People Have Walked Off Work
In a word, money. In a few words, "the advent of streaming has led to significantly lower residuals, according to SAG-AFTRA." - Washington Post
A Rebellion Against AI Stealing Content
Fan fiction writers, "social media companies such as Reddit and Twitter, news organizations including The New York Times and NBC News, authors such as...
Meanwhile, Netflix Says Its Password Crackdown Is Working
Prognosticators of doom were not correct. "Instead of the company shedding users, Netflix’s new subscriber count grew 236% between May 21 and June 18...
Let’s Be Clear About What Hollywood Actors Are Allowed To Do Right Now
It's not a lot. While the strike lasts, "actors cannot act, sing, dance, perform stunts, pilot on-camera aircraft, puppeteer or do performance capture and motion capture...
What’s At Stake For So-Called ‘Background’ Actors?
"'I am sure that the feeling is unanimous among background actors that being scanned and having our likeness used in perpetuity for a one-time...
The Smithsonian Suddenly Cancels Asian American Literature Festival
"The 2023 iteration was expected to draw thousands of attendees to Washington in early August. But just weeks before writers from across the world...
Don’t Settle, Hollywood Actors Urge Canadians
"Stars including Elliot Page, Martin Short and Tatiana Maslany are among the 74 Canadian actors who signed a July 10 open letter calling for...
Just Stop Oil Protesters Interrupt First Night Of Proms In London
"The duo mounted the stage and briefly unfurled an orange banner on Friday. They were met with boos and jeers from some members...
Drunk Shakespeare, But Make It Union
"'We have had so many conversations with our upper management about the issues we are trying to fix, and once it became clear that...
How ‘In Cold Blood’ Destroyed Truman Capote
"Overnight, Capote catapulted from a mere darling of the literary world to a full-fledged global celebrity on a par with the likes of rockstars...
Shedding New Light On The Troubles
"A quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement drew a line under the Troubles, a documentary series has scraped away the familiar narratives and...
Theatres Are Now Trying To Tempt New Audiences With Virtual Reality
"To watch a show the customer has to insert their phone into the VR device. Once the phone is place, the users strap the...
How Tracy Chapman Made Country Music History
"More than three decades after Chapman’s 'Fast Car' dropped, ... drove to the top of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart" as a Luke Combs...
Half Of Britain’s Empire Cinema Chain Shutter, With 150 Jobs Lost And Cities Losing...
"Staff apparently turned up for work at branches on Friday to find notes on windows explaining they were closing down." This leaves Sunderland (yes,...
How Do You Invent A Language That Half A Million People Want To Learn...
"You learn to say 'The woman is sweating' before that most basic greeting, 'Hello.' An incongruously cheerful cartoon asks you to translate 'All men...
A Library Book Comes Back 119 Years Late
Good thing fines are mostly a thing of the past, eh? "This came back in extremely good condition. ... Someone obviously kept this on...
The Repurposed Burlap Coffee Bags Of Henry V
The set designer for the production at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: "It just immediately added a layer that I don't think...
A Thumbs-Up Emoji Can Be A Contract, Court Says
"The ruling shows how ingrained emojis are in modern culture, also that so much of our daily communication happens via text. The playful symbols...
The Set Used For The Banshees Of Inisherin Is Now A Real Pub, Open...
"The film set pub lay for a year-and-a-half in a yard on Achill Island - and when Luke offered to buy it from...
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Poet And Activist, Dead At 76
Pratt, originally from Alabama, "moved between the worlds of literature, scholarship and activism over nearly five decades as the LGBTQ+ community achieved gains such...
Netflix Gets Deeper Into Europe With Deal In Germany
The deal gives the streamer access to upcoming films "involving Jella Haase, Peter Saarsgard, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens,...
A Trial May Determine Which Of Aretha Franklin’s Handwritten Wills Is Valid
Shall it be the will in the cupboard, or the will from the sofa cushions? "I think they all wish this had been settled...
Puritanical British Transport Bans Theatre Ad Featuring Wedding Cake
Just what we need: More joyless, foolish bureaucrats quashing theatrical productions. "The interactive show is set at an Italian-American wedding, with a three-course meal,...
A Documentary Of Wham In East Asia, Squelched
To watch If You Were There, director Lindsay Anderson's cut of a documentary about Wham! in China, you have to go to a university...
How ‘Fiddler’ Helped Usher In The 1960s’ Jewish Pride Movement
"In the early 1960s, the Jewish American soul was tied in knots. On the one hand, Jews knew they were outsiders. ... On the...
