“This feeling of being at the mercy of incomprehensible forces is an old one in art. For 19th-century painters of the sublime like J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, nature was humanity’s foil. … , A.I. fits the bill nicely.” - The New York Times
Honestly: “Every jury decision is a copout. All juries are horse-trading and compromising and collectively accepting second-choice movies that no one objects to from film-makers whose prestige they all endorse.” - The Guardian (UK)
“'Moving the equipment with just Kat and an intern is the last thing that would expect Kat to try to do,’ the report stated.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)
Is this a sign of things to come for next weekend’s big Primetime Emmys night? (Alert: The Pitt won an ensemble casting award, and best guest actor as well.) - The Hollywood Reporter
"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish-Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in mid-May 1940 to escape the Nazis, but died after falling through an open hatch into the hold of the SS Bodegraven, the ship carrying him to the UK.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The film's star, Karim Daoud Anaya, posed with a plastic bag, dripping in fake blood, containing a camera and a Palestinian keffiyeh. Other members of the cast and crew held up Palestinian flags and messages reading 'Stop the genocide' at the premiere.” - CBC
Roy: “‘What have we done to democracy? What happens when it’s been used up and emptied of meaning, and every institution has been turned against you? But … you have the most incredible people fighting back too.”- Irish Times (Archive Today)
Carrie Underwood, winner of American Idol in 2005, has sung the musical opener for every game of Sunday Night Football for 12 years. “Underwood gamely sings each version before her, giving NBC options when it edits the song into the version that makes the television broadcast.” - The New York Times
The reverse of the probable portrait of the Earl of Southampton, a representation of a playing card heart, is defaced with a spade, or a spear. And that brings “thoughts of Shakespeare, whose coat of arms, drawn up c1602, incorporated a spear as a pun.” - The Guardian (UK)
Pennsylvania’s first drive-in was also the second one in the country as a whole. And now it’s on its fourth set of owners, who say they’ve made it work. - The Seattle Times
“The biggest question in the room, more relevant than ever in Germany and cities across Europe, is how to create affordable, quality housing.” - The Guardian (UK)
“One former instructor told The Washington Post that the decision appears to have been rooted in avoiding an ‘uncomfortable’ relationship between West Point leadership and the White House. That was not the official reason provided by the alumni association.” - Daily Beast
Truly, says another indie bookstore in town, what were they thinking?! And on the venerable store's Instagram sort-of apology, the comments are, hm, not super favorable. - KATU (Portland)
