Somehow, Gillian Anderson Isn’t Tired Of Talking, Or Writing, About Sex
The actor “has become a curator, rather than an object, of sexual fantasies. Want, a new book released next week, is a collection of anonymous...
Shogun Takes Four More Emmys To Make Its Total A Tad Bit Staggering
Though The Bear also won quite a haul, and there were a few surprises, Shōgun snagged a record-breaking total of 18 Emmys over the...
Where Will Sundance End Up?
It’s down to three finalists: Boulder; Cincinnati; and, of course, staying home in Utah, though mostly relocating to the travel-friendlier Salt Lake City. -...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Says Welsh Is A Musical Language And Thus, Disney Should Consider A...
But “the creator of the Pulitzer prize-winning musical Hamilton said it may still be too soon after 2012's movie Brave, which is set in...
Counterpoint – The Process Of Becoming A Movie Star Isn’t Easy For A Younger...
Margaret Qualley: "I’m just trying to move through life like water in a river and stay agile and move around the rocks, be a...
The Toronto Film Fest Featured Movies With A Lot Of So-Called Older Women
But the discussion about those actors? Weirdly - or perhaps predictably - still ageist, sexist, and gross. "It’s strange to experience a culture that...
Final Predictions For The 2024 Emmys
Whether it’s with Shōgun or The Bear, looks like FX is going to clean up at the awards show today. But, don’t forget, “the...
How To Have Success With A New Play’s Rolling Premiere
The rules? Be flexible. “We each have our audiences, which are different in Memphis than in Sarasota or Houston, and we each have our...
Oxford University Press Has A Unionized Staff, But The Press Just Fired Thirteen Workers
Those remaining have filed a grievance. “These are the people who design OUP’s award-winning covers and graphics, do complex data work that sustains OUP’s...
Hollywood Prepares For The White British Men Likely To be Nominated For Oscars
The prime minister, Voldemort, and James Bond may face off in the spring. Er, that is, Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, and Daniel Craig seem...
Fake Retro Video Games Are Worth How Much, Again?
A lot. “A video game trafficking ring has been smashed by police in Italy, after fake vintage consoles and games worth almost €50m ($55.5m)...
Fifty Years On, Nigeria’s Groundbreaking Twin Sister Act Gets Its Due
“The Lijadu Sisters were among the first — and fiercest — popular female artists, groundbreaking not only for their music (a mélange that included...
We Need More, And Better, Depictions Of Old People In Books
And not 40-year-olds, y’all. “Truly older characters remain very rare in literature, with around only two to three percent of protagonists aged eighty or...
Found In The Archives, A Novel By Horror Master George A. Romero Sees The...
Romero, of course, is known as a director - his most famous movie being Night of the Living Dead. But an archivist working on...
Two Iranian Directors Are Still Under House Arrest For A Gentle Comedy About An...
“The couple never meant to make political movies, Sanaeeha . ‘But in Iran, everything is political.’” (The issue here? A 70-year-old woman character doesn’t...
How Two Robbers Broke Into A London Gallery To Steal A Banksy
Though the work has been recovered, the entire exhibit is now off the walls at Grove Gallery. - BBC
Netflix’s Two-Part Season Drops Aren’t Working At All
Take Emily in Paris for the most recent, most egregious example: Even in Part 1, “the stories don’t have enough space. When you combine...
What Brain Science Says Many Of Us Are Missing Right Now
“When we learn something with other people—be it a college study group, a cooking class, or workplace learning—we encode the information more robustly in...
Dancer Michaela DePrince, A Trailblazer And Survivor Of War, Has Died At 29
"In the statement announcing her death, DePrince is described as ‘a beacon of hope for many, showing that no matter the obstacles, beauty and...
Salman Rushdie, Anne Carson, Rachel Kushner Make National Book Award Longlists
Some of the fiction nominees are also on the Booker Prize Longlist, but this list adds many others, including short story collections, as well....
With “Oscar,” Christopher Wheeldon Brings Explicit Same-Sex Love Into Classical Story Ballet
While same-sex pairings aren't unusual in contemporary dance or in abstract ballets, they're almost never seen even in new narrative ballets. With this new...
AI’s Robot Problem
I have come to believe it will take many, many thousands, maybe even millions of robots doing stuff in the real world to collect...
James Earl Jones: More Than The Voice
The worry is that our remembrance will whittle down Jones’s vast career—spanning sixty years and encompassing more than two hundred turns in the theatre,...
Today’s Great Contemporary Literature Is About The Past
Over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place in American fiction: The novels recognized by major literary prizes have largely abandoned...
Cultural Tourism Barely Existed In Australia 40 Years Ago. Now It’s A Billion-Dollar Industry.
Here's a look at the enormous development in the field since the 1980s, including the spread of cultural tourism far beyond the big cities,...
