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German Actor Says Britain Is Too Protective Of Children On Set
Franz Rogowski, “who plays a key role in Bird, British director Andrea Arnold’s contender for the top Palme d’Or prize, said this weekend that the...
What’s The Sudden Deal With Nuns In Popular Culture?
“If the aesthetic interest in nuns is an enduring one, it’s also true that every few years, like fashion trends or viral flus, nuns...
If You’re Curious About Alice Munro, Here Are Twenty Free Stories To Read
When Munro won the Nobel Prize in 2013, the Swedish Academy called her “a master of the contemporary short story.” The queen of subtly...
Mickey, Elsa, Princess Jasmine, And Other Costumed Characters Say Union Yes
That is, the actors playing the costumed characters at California’s Disneyland have voted to join Actors’ Equity. The workers "often endure injury and discomfort...
Norway Has A Huge New Rich Guy Museum
That’s the one in the grain silo. Why not? Like the Tate Modern’s building, the former power station, the silo wasn’t being used for...
Hollywood Has Been Shortchanging Its Stunt Actors For, Oh, About A Century
Stunt workers’ tough situation: “Their work is often flashy, which has contributed over time to the misconception of them as daredevils, making it hard...
Bebe Newirth Loves Old Theatres
That is, the ones with more ghosts. - The New York Times
North Carolina School Of The Arts Settles Sexual Abuse Allegations
The UNC system and the School of the Arts will pay 65 alumni a total of about $12.5 million for abuses that lasted “during...
Can Anyone ‘Win’ From The Purchase Of TikTok?
“All of TikTok’s potential suitors would be facing an uphill battle to close a deal. The first challenge will be raising enough money. Only...
Photos That Changed The Way The World Saw Women
From “ecstatic reminders” to paparazzi shots that became court cases, these photos altered the world’s conception of at least some of their subjects’ lives....
A Key Researcher For OpenAI Has Resigned, Citing A Lack Of Care For Safety
The researcher wrote, "Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” - The Verge
How In The World Did The Royal Portrait Of Charles Turn Into The King...
"The kind of people who deign to sit for portraits think of themselves, to quote a Shakespearean sonnet, as ‘lords and owners of their...
Does The ‘Real-Life Martha’ Of Baby Reindeer Have An Actual Case Against Netflix?
For one thing, “the U.K. is notoriously more favorable to libel plaintiffs than the U.S., where the First Amendment protects a broad range of...
Alta, Poet Who Started What Was Probably The US’s First Feminist Press, Has Died...
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in her garage. “She was having trouble getting her own brash and sensuous free-form poetry published by the mainstream...
The Weird Case of The Stereophonic Cast Recording
The thing is, “Stereophonic’s cast recording is not pretending to bring the album from the show’s universe into the real world. It delivers finished...
The End Of The Movies
Netflix isn’t about flicks anymore. Nor are most of the other streaming services. Instead, they're all about shows - scripted, reality, and live. -...
The ‘Deep Tissue Read’ Of Literary Translation
By a human, that is. “I did an event with Leila Slimani where she said she thought her translators know her better than her...
The Self-Reinvention Of Reese Witherspoon In A World Of Books
Witherspoon: “When there’s a big economic shift in the media business, it’s not the superhero movies or independent films we lose out on. It’s...
Tony Nominee Sarah Paulson Enjoys Playing Tough – Some Might Say Unlikeable – Characters
"Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur...
King Lear Had A Happy Ending For 140 Years
OK, bring back the 18th century: "Cordelia gets a romance. ... She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people...
Will Glasgow Ever Restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Burned Out School Of Art?
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming...
John Leguizamo Says Rejection Made Him The Actor And Activist He Is Today
"For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I've ever seen, it's hard to believe that...
The Tate Britain Finally Gets A Louise Jopling
One of the most famous British women artists of the 1800s, "for more than a century, Louise Jopling has been dismissed by the art...
What With The Whole Cyberattack Thing, How’s The Spring Art Market Doing?
The market already wasn’t super hot: “The bidding wars that characterized the pandemic spending frenzy have largely dissipated in favor of prearranged ‘guarantee’ deals...
Judi Dench Talks All Kinds Of Books
Her macular degeneration might keep her from “reading” the old-fashioned way, but she still loves books of every sort. "I love being surrounded by...