"The debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits." - Washington Post
Twelve hundred things, to be precise, including Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and a poem by Cranogwen, the first woman to win a Welsh national poetry prize. - BBC
That's right, never before have any of us heard "Every morning I greet thee" in the actor's own voice, despite intense vocal training before Sound of Music. - The Guardian (UK)
"There's nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November 2024, which again, is going to make her a billionaire, and maybe even has a hot new boyfriend." - Salon
Studios are already busy developing myriad uses for machine-learning tools that are both creative and administrative. Will they halt that development, knowing that their own copyrighted product is in jeopardy from machine-learning tools they don't control and that Big Tech monopolies, all of which could eat the film and TV industry whole? - Wired
A “view” in this case means the total viewing time divided by its running time, a metric that can be applied fairly easily across streaming services. Importantly, those success bonuses will rely not only on the “view,” but on subscribers as well. And that’s where things get tricky. - The Hollywood Reporter
If we want the university to remain a viable space for knowledge production, then scholars across disciplines must be able to identify the goal of their work – in part to advance the Enlightenment project of ‘useful knowledge’ and in part to defend themselves from public and political mischaracterisation. - Aeon
The Musicians’ Union (MU) said it is “deeply concerned” about “this cultural vandalism” as there will be less work for orchestral musicians. - Yorkshire Post
Nearly all artistic and managing directors polled saw their company’s price increases as marginal. But for many Americans, an increase of a few dollars per ticket can be significant, especially when piled on top of every other rising cost for goods and services. - American Theatre
Yambo Ouologuem insisted he had done nothing wrong in writing his 1968 novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence). But he refused to explain why and stalked away from Paris back home to Mali to stew in his fury. Were his borrowings actually a literary technique? - The New York Times
“It’s just a rude word for creative people. I know there are students in the audience: You don’t want to hear your stories described as ‘content’ or your acting or your producing described as ‘content.’ That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.” - The New York Times
Not only did Henry Condye and John Heminges assemble and publish the First Folio, they almost certainly helped lead the rescue of Shakespeare's plays (many of which had not yet been published) from the 1613 fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre. - Literary Hub
