Stories

“Rosy projections of a robust recovery this year have not materialized. If anything, the downturn, at least in terms of employment at the studios, has continued.” Also, there’s Trump and the tariffs. - Los Angeles Times (AOL)

And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)

How? Well - murder. And our timeline. “Georgia Miller—scammer, charmer, killer—is an American icon for our times, and she deserves public office as much as anyone else.” - Slate

“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what will hopefully stop AI companies from exploiting people’s life’s work.” - Time

"Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.” Normal country. Nothing to see here. - The Guardian (UK)

What’s up with guest actors on White Lotus and The Pitt? Will Kathryn Hahn get nominated in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress? Could an Anna Sawai nomination remind voters they think Pachinko is really darn good? - Vulture (MSN)

“'This was an extraordinary case in many respects,’ Shan Saunders, a solicitor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement. ‘It is not every day that we prosecute high-value burglaries of stately homes, let alone the audacious theft of an 18-carat gold toilet.’” - The New York Times

The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the fiction prize. - BBC

“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a snapshot of our working notions of selfhood.” - The New York Times

Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of MUBI.” Surely that will calm the waters. - Variety

Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub

Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times

Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. - BBC

He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire. And the artist says he’ll never do anything like it again. - The New York Times

"Universal, whose parent company acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016, was adamant that the new cater not only to young viewers but also to adults who had grown up with the original.”- The New York Times