Jon Mirsalis says, "If you see a title on the screen, there are probably 30 different ways you can read the title. With the music it becomes a different experience, a different art form. The marriage of music and film can be very powerful." - Washington Post
Aggressive one-star reviews, most from people or bots who have definitely not seen the movie, pepper IMdB and Rotten Tomatoes to such a degree that they've had to change their algorithms. And review bombing, with its roots in bad-faith gaming, is only likely to get worse. - CBC
That's what Brandon Taylor says writing is for him - "the most fun I'm capable of having." But the title of his third book in four years came to him when he was annoyed by his MFA peers at Iowa. - The Guardian (UK)
Alicia Mack: "The idea is that you graduate students who have an extraordinary range ... but are also entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a brand, so if the job isn’t there, they create the opportunity." - The New York Times
It was invented by NYT publisher Adolph Ochs in the late 1890s, and now it's certainly under assault. "But giving up on such an important guiding principle after experiencing the cheapened version of it is like renouncing all forms of air travel after flying easyJet." - The Atlantic
And they're all women. Director Maggie Contreras: "When you asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, John Williams was my answer. I would wave the wooden spoon wanting to be him. I didn’t have a Marin Alsop to name." - The New York Times
Sure, David Byrne is trying to make do with no orchestra in his show, but check out Sweeney Todd, Camelot, and Some Like It Hot. Philippa Soo, who plays Guinevere, says "she feels supported by the big orchestra, not just musically, but dramatically." - NPR
Yes, even ones that have nothing to do with Marvel or DC, like Barbie. And yet: The newest animated Spider-Man has figured out a way around the high walls of the IP garden. "There’s no house style to match, because there’s no house." - Slate
That's a first, and it's not reflected in larger films. Still, "the news from Tribeca suggests that a more equitable future is possible, particularly because its roster relies heavily on newcomers likely to continue creating films." - The New York Times
"It’s not hard to imagine a future in which a wide-eyed actor signs up for one season of a vampire TV show, and then two seasons later their AI replacement busts out of a coffin. Meanwhile, they receive no additional compensation." - Wired
I mean, we're talking about Pedro Pascal, here, people. And Selena Gomez, Diego Luna, and Jenna Ortega. Before this year, the only - only! - Latinx actor to win a lead actor Emmy was Jimmy Smits. - Variety
Not a joke. To be fair, the pandemic's supply chain issues, plus the 2021 Texas deep freeze, created a shortage on their own - but still, as filming went on, "there was just enough to continue production." - Los Angeles Times
Ata Aidoo, "as well as being a writer and university professor, also served as Ghana’s education minister in the early 1980s; she resigned when she could not make education free." - The Guardian (UK)
A Romanian-born owner of a London design store says "the décor industry is fond of artisanal work right now, adding that if it’s 'obscure' — she used air quotes — that was even better." So that's great for Horezu. - The New York Times
There was a K-Pop themed strike day, and the writers have also held "singles events, Greta Gerwig appreciation day, Pride and drag queen day, and reunions for writers of shows such as E.R. and the various Star Trek series." That all keeps morale up. - NPR
