Tag: 04.25.21
Maureen Dowd: Has Hollywood Lost Its Inspiration?
As a Hollywood writer friend of mine said after she watched “Nomadland”: “That was not entertainment. That was Frances McDormand having explosive diarrhea in...
How Yahoo Went From Being The Web’s Welcoming Atrium To Its Wrecking Ball
Back in the 1990s, before search engines were much good, Yahoo was a popular and useful portal, a directory organizing the great, amorphous mass...
Scalpers Have Been Buying Up UK Festival Tickets And Massively Hiking Prices
A Guardian investigation found that dozens of professional touts have snapped up tickets for eagerly awaited festivals and are demanding massively inflated prices from...
I was A “Minority Intern” In The 1990s. We Need To Talk About These...
"Without long insights into the early diversity programs, our profession cannot address the structural inequities that perpetuate the need for entry-level opportunities targeted for...
Choreographer Creates Company To Copyright Dance Moves
The JaQuel Knight's company Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will see to the rights to Knights dance moves while operating as a music publisher...
Streamers Ruled The Oscars This Year
Yes, 2020 was a weird year, and the rules for movies to debut in movie theatres were waived, but still: Netflix had seven statues,...
The Oscars Disrupted Union Station And More
How wild to have a show with Crip Camp nominated for best documentary, a show that prevented disabled people in L.A. from getting to...
London’s West End Galleries Reopen
And visitors who have been in lockdown number ... infinity? ... and have been absolutely starved for art are more than happy to be...
The Best Way To Predict Our Futures
It's a kind of internal averaging of disparate opinions: "Each of us has an inner crowd, too, with a wisdom of its own." -...
Most People Are Missing The Most Revolutionary Thing About Nomadland’s Win
Yes, Nomadland is only the second movie directed by a woman to win a Best Picture Oscar, and the first Best Picture Oscar to...
Activists Say They’ll Move Protests Inside MoMA
Protests have been going on outside the museum for the last three weeks. "These protests, called 'pop-up deoccupations' in the activists’ parlance — have so far...
Christa Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano, 93
Ludwig was most prominently associated with the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, but she also sang at the Met. She "rose from...
No, No One’s Going To Watch The Oscars
Broadcast TV ratings have been declining for years, and this ceremony will be no different - and won't mean anything about the actual movies...