“Hussey won the best new actress Golden Globe for her part as Juliet, but decades later she sued Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse as she was aged just 15 when she filmed the movie's nude scene.” - BBC
“There is less time for impulsiveness and joy, and the bar that Andrews sets as Maria or Mary Poppins can feel unattainable when you’re stuck checking your kid’s head for lice.” - HuffPost
Critics might never see them, and certainly never review them, but “these films are often huge successes for streaming services like Prime Video and Netflix — the Kissing Booth and Through My Window movies have been reliable staples of Netflix’s top ten. They’re popular in theaters, too.” - Vulture
Butler, who became fascinated by portraits of Rodin’s wife Rose, “was determined to tell not just Rose’s story but those of the muses and partners of Rodin’s contemporaries, the painters Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet.” - The New York Times
For the teens at the time, "The thought was mostly like, this will be a fun little experiment. We'll learn some stuff. Maybe we'll bring the game back online for a couple months.” Now Toontown Rewritten has 2 million registered users. Will Disney try to shut it down? - Wired
Jessica Lange isn’t playing Chekhov, exactly, but in (HBO) MAX's The Great Lillian Hall, she is playing an actor who’s in Cherry Orchard - and losing her memory. - Washington Post
That’s partially due to Spotify - but the service only pays authors when listeners finish a book, so despite the increase in listenership, it may end up devaluing the product. - The Guardian (UK)
“Starting at the strip club in Midtown and wending around the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, past the Parkview Diner, Coney Island and Brighton Beach en route to the mansion in Mill Basin that played Ivan’s home, you get a survey of high and low.” - The New York Times
"The shuttering of Indian Time closes the final chapter on a legacy of journalism in this Haudenosaunee community, which sits 120 kilometres west of Montreal, stretching back to the 1960s that at one time produced one of the most influential Indigenous publications on the continent.” - CBC
“Whatever you do when you read fiction is commit a small act of empathy. You know, you think about situations that are not like your own. You think about people whose lives are not like your own. And that, I think, is an incredibly useful exercise.” - The Atlantic
Sacre bleu! What is happening? A French artist won "a competition to replace the existing six windows installed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1844 – even though the windows were not damaged in the 2019 fire.” - The Guardian (UK)
Carmen Souza, a Cape Verdean musician, realized that certain words she knew from her childhood derived from British sailors and merchants who "came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil,” and “built roads and bridges and developed the natural ports.” - BBC
“For decades, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System have overcome similar threats. But this year, 'the attention and intensity’ of the calls to defund public media seem greater.” - Seattle Times (NYT)
“His music speaks to something timeless: the longing for connection, and the pain at not finding it. He gives voice, and then consolation, to that part of us that feels alone in the world even when surrounded by people who care for us.” - The New York Times
