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How The All In The Family Theme Song Broke The Mold And Remade The Modern Sitcom

“So it was that an old Broadway hand changed television forever by injecting a bit of kitchen-sink realism into the opening credits of a sitcom, of all things. You were solidly hooked.” - Washington Post (Yahoo)

Who’s Hurt Most By Threatened Cuts To PBS?

“Since PBS reaches an estimated 99% of the country’s broadcast viewers, that gives every child free access to high-quality educational content.” When that goes, rich kids in cities won’t be so hurt - but poorer and more rural kids sure will. - Salon

Betty Buckley Is Definitely Still Alive, And She’s Hoping She Can Appeal To Her Most Powerful Fan

Trump adores her performance of “Memory” from 1982. She felt “a glimmer of hope that wouldn’t it be great if he could allow us, as theater artists, to share with him that which we know in storytelling to assist him to see things a bit differently.” - The New York Times

Oregon, Other States Sue Doge, NEH Over Funding Cuts

“Congress approved $65 million for these councils in the 2025 fiscal year, which means that DOGE or any other member of the executive branch spending that money on anything else is doing so under an illegal process called ‘impoundment.’” - Oregon ArtsWatch

Universal Is Trying To Take The Disney Crown

At least on the theme park front, in Florida, anyway. - Los Angeles Times

How Bristol Randomly Forgot Its Huge IMAX Cinema – And Found It Again

“The Bristol Imax, boasting a 19 metre by 15 metre screen, was once regarded as the future of cinema in south-west England. The projector was the size of a small car and needed to be cooled with water pumped up from the harbour.” - The Guardian (UK)

Gearing Up For A Publishing ‘Hot Labor Summer’ With Another Publisher Unionizing

The organizers say that even before the votes are counted, “they’ve already noticed more camaraderie at Abrams, which is a rare medium-sized publisher with around 150 employees.” - LitHub

What Could Desi Arnaz Teach Hollywood Today?

"Arnaz heard ‘no’ a lot in his career but he never took it as a final answer.” - The New York Times

Elton John Calls The UK Government ‘Absolute Losers’ Over AI Plans

“He said if ministers go ahead with plans to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying, they would be ‘committing theft, thievery on a high scale.’” - BBC

For Mexico, Trump’s Desired Tariffs Threaten A Flourishing Film Collaboration

“The United States is the country with which Mexico has co-produced the most films. In 2024, at least 21 films featured collaborations with artists from both countries” - but tariffs definitely threaten that number. - El País

The Los Angeles Book Fair Provides A Treasure Trove Of Art Prints, If You’re Looking

“More than 300 exhibitors from around the world use letterpress, risograph, or Xerox machines to produce an array of printed matter running the gamut from the personal to the political, from limited edition art books to mass-produced pamphlets.” - Hyperallergic

Not All SFF Fans Are Dealing Well With The Sudden Success Of Romantasy

This might be a difference in purpose, but “whatever you think of the advent of romantasy onto the SFF scene, be assured that it isn’t a problem to be solved.” - Reactor

How Cannes Determines What Movies Succeed In The States

"Beyond the festival itself, Cannes is also a marketplace for film buyers and sellers from 140 nations. Collectively it’s a mood setter for the global movie industry, including major issues affecting Hollywood, and this year it’s looking especially complicated.” - Wall Street Journal (Internet Archive)

Police Arrest Artist For Climbing Empire State Building At His Gallery Opening

"The evidence was on the wall: A vertigo-inducing photo from that climb hung in the gallery.” The gallery owner, other climber-photographers, and the rest of the crowd were left in shock by the arrest. - The New York Times

How Long Will The Emmys Ignore TV Audiences’ Obsession With Spies?

"Emmy voters like to reward series that are very clearly About Something, like commercialism or wealth or artistic genius or what a millennial is, and spy shows are not a genre I think viewers are trained to think of as being thematically dense.” - Vulture (MSN)

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