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How Hollywood’s Backlots Stayed Full Even During The First Year Of The Pandemic
How? Safety, actually: "Producers sought out more controlled environments for outdoor shooting. Even with a 87-day shutdown, the number of shoot days on backlots...
What If Shakespeare Had A Sister – Or If Anne Hathaway Wrote Plays?
The novel Brother of the More Famous Jack has just been reissued - and "The title alone deserves a party. It puts its finger...
Fabio’s Legacy Is Controversial
A new movie revives the (surprisingly intense) discussion. "Isabelle Popp ... proposed a 'words to Fabio' standard for mainstream romance coverage that boils...
Margaret McGowan Invented The History Of Early Dance
McGowan, who has died at 90, "created a new international area of academic study, now known as early dance, and received national honors in...
Stephen Sondheim, Movie Artist
The composer changed musicals, yes, and he was generous with his work, allowing others to adapt it to the screen. Sometimes that worked well...
This Verified Twitter User’s Name Is Will Smith
But he's not actor Will Smith. After the slap, "Will Smith — a podcaster, gamer and PR guy for indie game studio Stray Bombay who lives...
A 19-Year-Old Wins Britain’s National Poetry Competition
Eric Yip is the youngest winner ever - and he's an engineering student. And "Yip, who cites Ocean Vuong as a writer who made...
How Amazon Workers In New York Won Their Union Election
The lead organizer started a new union from scratch, and raised money through GoFundMe. "It looked like a quixotic venture," to vastly undersell the...
Turns Out The SAT Might Not Be The Problem In College Admissions
The test is still a problem, but not having it as a factor in admissions only harmed lower-income students in college admissions. How? "The...
The Grammys Were Supposed To Be A Return To Normal
But then the Oscars happened. - Los Angeles Times
The Ballet That Almost Didn’t Happen
Music rights were the issue for Christopher Bruce's Rooster, a ballet set to the music of the Rolling Stones. They were cool with the...
Production Companies Have Paused Some Will Smith Projects, But What About His Family?
This seems transparently foolish. After all, it wasn't Jada Pinkett Smith or their adult children up there smacking Chris Rock. Yet: "Public relations specialists...
The Shocking Costs, And Deep Censorship, Of Trying To Read Books While In Prison
First, physical books get banned for transparently hysterical "reasons." Then e-readers might be provided for free - with content that is outrageously expensive. But...
The Past Can Sometimes Be The Past
That is, if you do enough digging - and enough reckoning, as Maud Newton, author of the memoir Ancestor Trouble, well knows. - The...
A Producer Whose Broadway Empire Imploded Seeks A Successful Return
Producer Garth Drabinsky not only lost his company but was jailed in Canada for fraud. He's not involved in the new show financially, but...
Letting Public Art Degrade Is A Mental Health Issue
Seriously, communities need to maintain public art - at least public art that's not intended to fall apart. - Hyperallergic
What’s The Deal With The Mid-Century Modern Obsession?
"In a noisy, high-tech society, it’s no wonder they’re all the craze, but it appears mid-century modernism’s cultish popularity has all but blinded us...
The Oral History Of Blue Man Group
"That this undeniably unusual show found an audience when it launched ... made a certain kind of sense for the era. But its lasting...
Let The Streamer Floodgates Open
And yet: "After years of Netflix and Amazon trying to produce and acquire their way to the top—despite the Hollywood old-schoolers who looked down...
How CODA Came From Way Behind To Win The Oscars
Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a...
What It Took To Produce The Oscars This Year, By The Numbers
Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full....
That Familiar Video Game Jump Sound Dates To The 1970s
Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by...
Sadly, Halle Barry’s Win Changed Nothing For Black Women At The Oscars
"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove...
You Know Which Russian Composer Isn’t Suffering In The West?
Tchaikovsky. Just look at the Met's revival of Eugene Onegin. - The New York Times
William Morris’s Farmhouse Is Restored And Reopening, After Millions Of Pounds And Many Years
Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and...
