“One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people so many classics were written about or too often ignored.” See, for example, Cats: The Jellicle Ball. - The New York Times
“What is becoming clear now is that the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be incommensurable. Rather, it is a struggle over how art and human labor are valued—and who has the power to make that appraisal.” - The Atlantic (MSN)
“ The devastation was immense. The spire had gone, its collapse having destroyed part of the vaults at the crossing of the transept. ... The task of rebuilding Notre Dame was herculean.” - The Guardian (UK)
Millennials and Gen Z are taking over now. "The KHive has ditched the bee and gone coconuts now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 election and endorsed Kamala Harris. What’s more, Harris’s laugh is getting remixed into songs by just about every pop diva.” - Vulture
It’s confusing and not fully theorized, but “over the past few years, a community of physicists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists has been working toward a better understanding. These researchers have developed theoretical tools for identifying when emergence has occurred." - Wired
One juror: “'Alec Baldwin is an actor, right?’ she said, adding that she would not have expected him to know a lot about gun safety. ‘I think he would have trusted the people, you know, on the set to do their job.’” - The New York Times
Mowry, in a 40-year career, was an “actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating onstage speaking voice.” - Oregon ArtsWatch
The movie played until the film broke at cinemas across the world. “Made by a white director with funding from the apartheid government yet starring an unusually diverse cast, … The Gods Must Be Crazy delivered an idealized, false picture of South Africa into the international marketplace.” - Slate
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess - who ad-libbed a lot - on Days of Our Lives. - The New York Times
Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in Shaun of the Dead. - The Guardian (UK)
“True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made without the consent or involvement of those most closely affected.” Now, TikTok has changed that. - The New York Times
One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white Spanish Revival-Art Deco ‘wedding cake’ tower that has beckoned Westside moviegoers since 1931.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward any message,’ director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, told CNN.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof lay tens of thousands of charred books and printing machinery in smoldering heaps. … ‘The attack felt methodical and deliberate, like cultural genocide.’” - NPR
“Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II quest for peace and dignity was either brilliant in its perversity or perversely hypocritical.” - Washington Post
