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Revered Editor And Writer William Whitworth Has Died At 87
Whitworth "wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker ... and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor...
With Contract Negotiations Coming Up, Jimmy Kimmel Brought Crew Members To The Oscars Stage
After honoring and thanking the crew members, "Kimmel turned to leave the crew members with a final promise. 'Thank you for standing with us,'...
The Thing New Actors Misunderstand About The Job
Acting coach Howard Fine says that acting is “incredibly tough,” and if it’s not your passion, you better step away. - Slate
How Far Can A Writer Push Fiction’s Boundaries?
Kathryn Scanlon, winner of the Gordon Burn prize, says, "I love that you could come to this book and not really know what it...
Past Lives Conveys So Much About The Immigrant Experience
"Like Nora, I had lofty dreams and thought of America as my salvation of sorts. The place where I could achieve things I’d never...
Roku Is Now Locking Up TVs For People Who Don’t Want To Agree To...
To opt out, “users must send a letter to Roku's general counsel in California mentioning: 'the name of each person opting out and contact...
Live Updates From The Oscars
As they happen! - Los Angeles Times
Screenwriter Accuses Alexander Payne Of Plagiarizing Script Of The Holdovers
Luca screenwriter Simon Stephenson wrote that "the evidence The Holdovers screenplay has been plagiarised line-by-line from Frisco is genuinely overwhelming – anybody who looks at even...
Why Are Oscar Voters About To Award The Wrong Song From Barbie?
"Only one song from Barbie was a cultural sensation, a TikTok masterpiece, a showstopping earworm—and it’s the other nominated song, the one that’s probably going to lose on...
After The Activision Blizzard’s Merger With Microsoft, Workers Form Gaming’s Largest-Yet Union
Quality assurance workers for Activision, who play games constantly to find and report bugs, or problems, say they’re often the lowest-paid workers in the...
In Florida, Two Young Boys Are Arrested For Creating Deepfake Nudes Of Classmates
To blame? AI (and some very poor teenage decision-making). "As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents...
The ‘Invisible’ Art Of Film Editing, And The Women Who Have Long Ruled That...
In the early days of Hollywood, “because many people saw film editing – or cutting, as it was called then – as unglamorous, secretarial...
Akira Toriyama, Creator Of The Hugely Popular Comic And Anime Dragon Ball, Has Died...
Dragon Ball got its start in 1984, and “to many fans, Son Goku's journey from a kid who fumbles his martial arts training to...
Artist Ricky Sencion Celebrates The Pink Sheep Of Los Angeles
Sencion "posted his first sheep on the streets of L.A. in March 2013. , the artist has amassed an inventory of thousands of his...
Performance Space New York Goes With A Triple-Leader Model
In a performance arts space, why not have three women with an equal vote making major decisions - and figuring out how to fund...
The Year In Movies Was Surprising, Tough, And Unpredictable; Long May That Last
However … "The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures." - Washington Post
Radio Hosts Are Another Profession On The Brink
As if radio work isn’t troubled enough, here comes artificial intelligence. - CBC
Writers Stuck In A Rut Should Go Pick Up A Camera
What kind of camera doesn’t matter, but thinking about everything from framing devices to length of exposure surely can kick the writing gears back...
The Oscars Weren’t Always About Fashion
As a matter of fact, the whole fashion discussion was cooked up by Hollywood’s PR people to get television on board - and hiring...
The Frida Kahlo Corporation Has Sued Amazon Kahlo Kitsch Sellers
Apparently, third-party sellers have sold everything "including prints, cosmetics, beverages, smoking accessories, toys, accessories, cooking ware, cameras, and face masks. These objects reportedly depicted...
Da’Vine Joy Randolph On Getting Her Day At The Oscars
"Randolph doesn’t really speak Awards Season — not like the shiny glittery things who seem to have it down. Ask her how she fee-eels and the 37-year-old...
Did Online Trolls From Saudi Arabia Manipulate Opinions About Amber Heard?
Pretty much, yes - and that may have implications for elections in the U.S. and other democracies. - CBC
Petra Mathers, Author And Illustrator Of Many Children’s Books, Has Died At 78
"Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator)...
The Woman Who Brought Libraries Online
The internet was hard to use in 1992 - there was no web browser, for instance - so "the service was mediated by local...
Juliette Binoche On Turning Spielberg Down Multiple Times, And That Oscar
"My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar . You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not...