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How The Trans Fantasia Batman Movie, AKA The People’s Joker, Came About
“‘It started as a joke,’ says Vera Drew. ‘I just took it a little too far.’” - The Guardian (UK)
Directors And Producers Guilds Make Anora The New Oscars Frontrunner
“More than a month after Anora lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden Globes, the Sean Baker-directed comedy took top honors...
How Dancer Syreeta Hector Kept Her Ballet Dream Alive During COVID-19
“She was committed to keeping the project alive, so she rented a shipping container and used it as a rehearsal space, continuing to improve...
Tom Robbins, Author Of Novels Including Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Has Died At...
“With their meandering plots, pop-philosophical asides and frequent jabs at social convention and organized religion, Mr. Robbins’s books were the perfect accompaniment to acid...
As Predicted By The New York Times, Netflix Has Deep-Sixed Its Documentary On Prince...
"The nine-hour, bombshell documentary was in development at Netflix for five years before the streamer reportedly pulled the plug in a deal with the...
Our Condiments Are About To Change Radically, But Can The United States Handle It?
“Regardless of what the one percent are slathering on toast points in their backseats, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years writing...
That Time Hemingway And Ford Madox Ford Started A Paris Literary Journal
“The original name of the magazine was to be the Paris Review. The name was switched because the first serial advertisement was from Compagnie...
Barbara Kingsolver Took Her Profits From The Massive Hit Demon Copperhead And Built A...
In the novel, Demon and his people experience a full range of opioid addictions. With the money she made from her Pulitzer prize-winning (and...
Meta’s War On Leakers
“Employees are on edge about Zuckerberg’s next round of ‘low-performer’ layoffs that are arriving on Monday. And many are still reeling from his politically-charged changes to...
Three Men Convicted In Ring Of Multiple Museum Thefts
“For two decades, a crew from Lackawanna County in Pennsylvania traveled to a dozen small museums across the country, where its ringleader smashed through...
As The New Conductor Of Cologne’s WDR Funkhaus Orchestra Settles In, He Still Worries...
“Celebrating his new job over pints in a Cologne Irish pub, orchestra members told Brophy that his confident versatility was why they chose him.”...
Like Everyone Else, Sigourney Weaver Fell For Baby Yoda
And that’s why she’s in the new movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. Baby Yoda isn’t so young anymore: “He’s grown up a little bit...
This Strad Sold For Millions, Though Less Than The Auction House Had Expected
The Joachim-Ma Strad from 1714 “was most notable for having been played for decades by Joseph Joachim, one of the most famous violinists of...
Denzel Washington Can Be A Rather Tough Interview
He drops gems anyway. About his wife, who competed for the Cliburn: "Acting just sort of chose me, and I got going. But she’s...
How Bridget Jones Outlasted The Critics
What happens when Lizzie loses her Darcy: “How will the last cockeyed optimist in popular culture deal with such desolation? Widowhood is no laughing...
We’re Living In The Horror Comedy
No wonder the genre is so popular right now. - Vulture
Canadian Government Strips Buffy Sainte-Marie Of Order Of Canada
“The announcement comes more than a year after an investigation from CBC's The Fifth Estate reported that her claims of Indigenous ancestry were inconsistent with publicly available...
Want To Write A Prize-Winning Novel?
One path, according to novelist Eimear McBride: Go to drama school, and study method acting. - The Guardian (UK)
Mort Kunstler, Whose Epic War Paintings Were Meticulously Researched, Has Died At 97
“Künstler developed a sense of dramatic realism early in the 1950s as an illustrator for pulp novels and men’s adventure magazines,” which carried over...
The Campaign For Emila Perez Was Historically Amazing, Until The Star’s Old Tweets Turned...
Karla Sofía Gascón was a frontrunner for Best Actress, but “recently resurfaced racist, anti-Muslim and openly anti-diversity tweets have upended the Oscar campaign not...
In England’s Midlands, A Plan To Tear Down A Brutalist Building Is Met With...
Art students at the University of Wolverhampton aren’t happy with the plan. “Yes, it can get a bit cold in the winter and some...
At A Fire-Postponed Critics Choice, Demi Moore, Then Anora, Are Surprise Winners
Because of the fires, “Voting had already concluded on Jan. 10, meaning the weeks that followed — marked by major events including the announcement...
Out Of The Forty Lowest-Ranked Films On Rotten Tomatoes, What’s The Best?
And the real time roll-out of Idiocracy meets Handmaid’s Tale, how does the reviewer survive? - The Guardian (UK)
How We All Became Both Fans And Creators Of Documentaries
“All of our feeds are at their core tremendously banal: They’re just windows into what people do with themselves all day, repeated over and...
How Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Came About, And Created The American Dream
“Obviously, they wanted films to make money. They were not public servants. They wanted a profit. But they really believed that film could create...
