"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term dates back to 1984, when only three people had achieved EGOT-hood: the composer Richard Rodgers and the actresses Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno." - The New York Times
"The Guild (wants) a TV staffing minimum, which would range from six to 12 writers per show, based on the number of episodes, ... (and) a guaranteed minimum number of weeks of employment per season, ranging from 10 weeks to 52 weeks." The studios flatly reject both demands. - Variety
"Overseen by Spain's national heritage institution, Patrimonio Nacional, the gallery's aim is to share hundreds of items drawn from the 19 royal palaces and 10 monasteries under Patrimonio Nacional's stewardship." - The Guardian
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were A Doll's House, Leopoldstadt, and Ain't No Mo' with six nominations each. - Variety
"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the source material for a monumental 12-volume compendium of hand-colored reproductions." (And he didn't defend slavery or shoot the birds before painting them.) - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications. ... The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday." - AP
A major presence on the US charts and an even bigger star in his native Canada, he's remembered for "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind." "Rainy Day People," and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." - Variety
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no individual journalist is objective, because no human being is.” Given “the failures of neutral objective journalism,” he urged another ideal: “moral clarity.” - The Atlantic
Most people who write for the internet have had the experience of publishing something that escapes the bounds of one’s usual audience and goes viral. The experience can be mesmerizing. - Slate
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting to assign conspiratorial meaning to the tiled global map, set beneath arching train tracks and titanium poles, have racked up more than 1.5 million views. - The New York Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as about the time and place in which he was writing. - LA Review of Books
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to push back, the writers have what a lot of other white-collar workers don’t: a labor union. - The New York Times
But you probably will. "Contentious labor talks in Hollywood are rarely settled without the pressure of a contract expiration deadline bearing down. The stakes and the tension feel especially heightened this time around." - Variety
