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The Publishing World Is Drowning In Books
"What a remarkable change it would be if corporations would allow their employees to do the best job they can with each book that...
The Physics Of Running On Top Of A Moving Train
Basically, “Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself.” But let’s talk physics, including “fake...
Hollywood Writers End Their Rollercoaster Of A Year With Very Late Awards Show
Don’t the Writers Guild Awards usually happen before the Oscars? Sure, but not every year includes a monthslong historic strike. - Variety
The Most Scathing Diss Track Of 2024 Is About Detroit Architecture
"Last week, the city of Detroit installed a budget-looking sign on I-94 that spells out its name in mint-green lettering reminiscent of chewing-gum packaging....
Disastrous Decisions In The UK As Birmingham Council Slashes All Arts Funding
Birmingham is a bellwether for the UK. Nothing “could be more emblematic of the way that Britain currently devalues life: when we only focus...
Quiet On Set Reveals The Devastation Of American Childhoods
The abuse child actors dealt with destroyed their childhoods and families - and people watching it are grappling with their childhood memories as well....
You Can Reenact Lincoln’s Assassination In Many Theatres, But Not The One Where It...
“You know, at Ford’s we have an obligation. We have an obligation to the facts. We have an obligation to truth, we have an...
The Actor Who Wanted More Role Offers Than Sex Worker Or Recent Immigrant
Jing Lusi says that just after she graduated with a law degree, her "early days of auditions were tough. There were limited roles...
Barbie Unleashed A Veritable Avalanche
And that avalanche is made up of toy movies, with Margot Robbie at the head of at least one of them - a movie...
The Library Storm In Alabama Is Probably Coming For Your Librarians As Well
"Believe me, when they get the LGBTQ books out of there, then it'll be the books on the Civil War because white people are...
Artist Faith Ringgold, Who Wove Black History Into Quilts And Books, Has Died At...
“For more than a half-century, Ms. Ringgold explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media, among them...
Clara Bow’s Film Premieres, 101 Years After It Was Made And Lost
"Film-maker Gary Huggins inadvertently snapped up a slice of lost silent film history at an auction in a car park in Omaha, Nebraska, that...
Eleanor Coppola, Who Made The Documentary About Her Husband’s Apocalypse Now, Has Died At...
Eleanor was "a writer and film director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously...
Please Stop Calling The Whitney Biennial ‘Safe,’ People
“It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it every two years, as if the museum has ever intentionally sought controversy or...
Why, And To Where, Did The Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert Bus Disappear?
“For years, no one has known where the bus used in Stephan Elliott’s film went. Not long after the 38-day shoot finished in 1993,...
The Long-Hidden Sexual Assault Scandal At The New York Phil
Even now, "some employees, particularly female employees, continue to feel unsafe. A current member of the orchestra told me about an incident this past...
How Longtime Fans Feel About Sex And The City On Netflix
Look … even superfans know that “the test of time is a hard one to pass, and the show’s record is far from perfect....
DC’s Trivia Scene Is Facing A Cheating Scandal
"Don’t use Shazam on your Apple Watch to figure out the songs on the music round. … Don’t throw your arm up in the...
Why Is Civil War So Evasive About The Nature Of Its Civil War, And...
"Garland sets so far apart from the fray that their objectivity starts to look like incuriosity. Journalists, at least the old-fashioned kind, are...
The Joys And Hazards Of Replacing Dudamel In Los Angeles
"What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first...
The Film Composer Who Helped ‘Drive My Car’ Win An Oscar Is Driven By...
Eiko Ishibashi says that in scoring Ryûsuke Hamagachi’s new film, she felt his raw emotion - “anger that felt directed towards the way humans...
What Beatrix Potter Did With All Of Her ‘Peter Rabbit’ Money
She bought land - and sheep. So many sheep. Honestly, #goals. - Washington Post
Artist Mary Miss Sues To Stop The Des Moines Art Center’s Planned Destruction Of...
"Seeking a temporary restraining order to preserve , Miss alleges that the Center both failed to consult her before determining that the installation wasn’t...
It’s True: Writing Can Be, Well, Therapeutic
"Reader and writer, therapist and client, come together to conjure something in a mysterious symbiosis that will help make sense of the experience of...
The States Driving Hollywood Incentives Ever Higher
“As Oklahoma poured more and more funding into its rebate program, major productions came to collect. The incentives helped attract Killers of the Flower Moon, an Oscar...