Pastore once said, “It’s easier for me to play a tough guy than it is to play the good guy. … I grew up in a tough neighborhood. I didn’t study the classics. I’m a street actor. A lot of my training was on the set.” - The New York Times
This guy started practicing Spider-moves and parkour as a kid, hoping he’d one day get to do stunts for Spider-Man movies … and that has paid off in a big way. - BBC
“‘We’d always been very wary of working together because we’d quite like to stay together,’ says Sharp wryly. She looks at her partner of 13 years. ‘You don’t generally like to work with others.’” - The Guardian (UK)
“The logic is simple: two cartographers might easily draw the same real town, but two cartographers can’t independently dream up the same fake one. So if a rival’s map contains the same invented place, it all but proves they copied the map.” - Open Culture
First of all, let academics write reviews of things they know about - whether you agree with their reviews or not, it jump-starts the discussion. - Vulture
Perhaps the bike-loving, gardening, SCUBA-diving actor is having what might be called another moment, a few years after Past Lives garnered her some attention. - The New York Times
Try one of Andrew Sean Greer’s comic novel recommendations, even though he says, “nobody knows what a comic novel is. And once you start discussing it, all the fun runs out.” - The Guardian (UK)
Current bills "would extend the civil statute of limitations for criminal sexual conduct claims, create a one-year revival window for lawsuits that are currently time-barred and eliminate the civil statute of limitations when a criminal case results in a conviction.” - Detroit Free Press
It’s a weird reversal of most of recent history. "Angst over the increasing prevalence of ‘dramedies’ has long been a part of the conversation, but usually on the comedy side of the debate” (See: The Bear). - Vulture
It was a strongly worded review, and Joyce Carol Oates, for one, isn’t having it. "Oates said she would have expected a translator, whose role she described as having subjectivity, to be more tolerant.” - The New York Times
"Life of M is a narrative hall of mirrors that only a fool would confuse with a thinly veiled roman à clef about a celebrity. To my mind, only one true mystery remains: Was Portman in on it?” - Slate
“Of almost 1,500 monuments in London, more than a fifth dedicated to named men and only 4% dedicated to women, half as many as those that celebrated animals. And of all the public sculptures in London, only 13% were created by women.” - The Guardian (UK)
"During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accounts and accumulated over 143,000 likes.” Whoops. However: “The leak is unlikely to slow down the box office juggernaut, which is already shattering records.” - The Verge
"Hockney used visibly different etching techniques in different territories of the image—soft mats of color for the window blind, meticulous linear hatching for the floor, and splotchy, translucent color for the surrounding wall.” - The Atlantic
