“Publishers are investing in colorful patterned edges, metallic foil covers, reversible jackets, elaborate artwork on the endpapers, ribbon bookmarks and bonus content.” - The New York Times
“TikTok faces a ban if its parent company, ByteDance, does not follow a new federal law that requires it to be sold to a non-Chinese company by Jan. 19, the day before” the presidential inauguration. - Salon
“Holocaust scholar Richard Plant said 'begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.’ With its graphic account of privation, suffering and death in French and German concentration camps, Mr. Plant warned, it was ‘not meant for the squeamish.’” - The New York Times
And by that, the Nickel Boys actor means, “If I hadn’t been able to filter my insistence on justice, and the rage that I feel because of the lack of it, through , I would have had a more dangerous life.” - The Guardian (UK)
“As Bollywood struggled to find its footing, smaller films by Indian women that told nuanced stories made headlines in the country and across the world.” - BBC
“I watch every night before I go to bed. I love Godard and Fellini and Herzog and Cassavetes. And Gena Rowlands — she’s my favorite actress.” - The New York Times
“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
