You'd be very, very wrong. "Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor and its executive producer and showrunner, said clothing was at the foundation of the show’s premise." - The New York Times
Greta Gerwig: Gosling thought "he would have a dance duet with his mink and that the mink would be fighting him and then love him and then fight him again, eventually defeat him, and that he would be birthed anew out of the mink." - MSN (The Hollywood Reporter)
"It's really common to see violent scenes, ... but as soon as sex comes up, that becomes a really big complicated issue, whereas we're so desensitized to everything else." - CBC
In the 1980s, Steve Potash wanted law books and forms available on computers - so he digitized them himself. Thus was OverDrive, which now has 92,000 libraries and schools as customers, born. - MSN (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Remy Golan, an art history professor whose review for Brooklyn Rail was tanked by Koons, says, "I thought it was pathetic. ... Supposedly these journals are about opinion, about free speech, so where’s the free speech?" - The New York Times
VHS tapes are back, baby. And DVDs, Blu-Rays, cassette tapes, essentially anything that a streaming corporation can't surveill - or suddenly yank away. - Washington Post
No, not its mojo dojo casa house - though it's likely the Barbie movie will eventually stream there because studios have started offering older shows to the OG streamer again. Why? "They missed the money too much." - The New York Times
"About a week before her death, Debever disappeared from her home and left a note. On the day she died, France 2 television broadcast a documentary containing several claims against Depardieu of sexual misconduct." - BBC
"At the barbecue restaurant, like someone biting an old nickel, Mr. Donahue checked the banking app on his phone to make sure the money had been deposited." - The New York Times
"Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy." - Houston Chronicle
"Brilliant art cannot make up for a catastrophic year for our most cherished institution. ... We need people in charge who are visionary and strong-minded, as well as in possession of a moral compass." - Yahoo News (The Telegraph)
Molnar "has been called the godmother of generative art for her ... digital work, which started with the hulking computers of the 1960s and evolved through the current age of NFTs." - The New York Times
"The Clarion is essentially software which can mimic the sound of any instrument you desire and works on technology including iPads." That might sound suspect, but one designer says it's "software in the same way that a violin is made of wood." - BBC
Jason Jacoby Lee, who is non-verbal but recently learned to communicate through pointing to letters on a board, says of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, for instance: "It is painful to watch." - Teen Vogue
"Progress is neither inevitable nor consistent. The theatrical climate has become as unpredictable as our ailing planet’s weather. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the artistic gains that were made. No one knows where any of this is heading." - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
