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The Director Claims His Movie About The Munich Olympics Isn’t Political
But not everyone agrees. “Workers at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema collected just over 1,000 signatures in an ongoing petition requesting the theatre chain pull the...
Naomi Watts Was Once Told That She’d Be Finished Acting Once She Turned 40
"Now 56, she is fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Babe Paley in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. In March,...
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Who Choreographed Footloose And Brought Dance To A Wide Audience, Has Died...
The choreographer of exuberant musicals said, “My goal as a dancer and choreographer is to be understood. … Dance should not be a cerebral...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Will Teach These Soccer Fans To Sing Opera
No, this is not The Onion: “A group of Bradford City fans will go from singing on the terraces to performing as a choir...
The Thriving Publishing Renaissance In Africa
The continent doesn’t need the West to “discover” writers. Instead, “a radical shift is underway, transforming the region’s literary landscape from within and opening...
Without Reality TV, We’d Never Have Arrived At Today’s Inauguration
“The idea that blandly macho host would become one of the most influential figures in American life would have seemed as ridiculous as,...
How Did Popcorn Become Such A Movie Staple?
You can praise (or blame) a saleswoman in Kansas City who "built a concession empire in the middle of the Great Depression.” - and...
Playwright, Director, And Composer Claire Van Kampen Has Died At 71
Van Kampen, married to actor Mark Rylance, not only "was the first female musical director at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National...
Sex Might Be Back In Movies, But It’s Not Very Sexy
In a lot of awards-discussion movies from 2024, "The directors are using the moments to explore complex power dynamics between characters. These scenes are...
Los Angeles Art Fairs Decide To Keep Going
Because now, of course, artists and the arts really need money. And then there’s hope. “It’s an important moment to give people a sense...
Prince Harry’s Case Against British Tabloids Is Rapidly Reaching Its Most Vital Days
“This will be the first time that News Group Newspapers has had to defend itself against allegations that its journalists and executives across the...
Grand Theft Hamlet Got Its Start From Actors Out Of Work During The Early...
So began “a ludicrous journey to making one of the weirdest versions of one of the most performed pieces of literature: a staging of...
A Marvel Card Game Goes Dark Along With TikTok
“‘Marvel Snap’ players were shocked to wake up on Sunday and find themselves unable to access the speed-battle card game. They were greeted instead...
This Movie All About A Fantasy Winnipeg Is Shortlisted For The Oscars
Those watching the movie should “expect to see a film that displays the city in a way it has never been seen before — a place...
The World Of Movies Has So Few Black Women Buddy Comedies
In the past thirty years, there have been two - possibly three, if you include Waiting to Exhale. - HuffPost
This Law Course Takes Students To Art Museums To Help Them Understand How To...
“Both activities involve storytelling. Both involve putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. And both depend on properly balancing evidence and emotion, comprehensiveness and concision,...
Hollywood Is Playing A Strong Part In Brutalism’s Redemption
And not just with The Brutalist, either. Recall: “There was a time, in the 1980s, when a writer in a national newspaper demanded that...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Who Brought Vivid Depictions Of Internment To Life In Her Memoir,...
In Farewell to Manzanar, Houston “recounts the more than three years and about 10,000 other Japanese Americans endured at the camp until the...
Where Do Neil Gaiman Fans Go From Here?
One fan’s contribution: “Whenever allegations come out about an artist whose work is important to me: I see the moment I learned of them...
Video Game Writers Long To Improve Their Genre
“A game’s popularity often depends not on quality, Ingold said, but on the whims of the biggest Twitch streamers or the algorithm that drives...
The Tight-Knit Artists’ Community In Altadena That Lost Everything
“It was an improbable place. An artist collective known as JJU, or John Joyce University, hidden in the foothills of Altadena, resembled a 1960s fever...
Publishers, Who First Resisted And Then Embraced TikTok, Worry About What Can Replace It
As author Brandon Taylor noted on social media, it’s a little disingenuous for The NYT to publish this article since it’s a whole newspaper...
Music Therapy Helped Joni Mitchell Walk And Talk Again After Her Stroke
Her neuroscientist friend Daniel Levitin believes "that music is a golden thread in the fabric of identity” - and that music therapy could help...
The Iron Horse Rides Again
University of Georgia students did not like this sculpture: When it was “extricated from a concrete pad in a cornfield outside Athens for conservation,...
The Broad Museum Is Hit With Sexual Harassment And Discrimination Lawsuits
“The lawsuit accuses the Broad of failing to take 'reasonable steps to prevent retaliation and wrongful termination against Walker who opposed discrimination in the...