The actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, but kept it quiet. "She wanted to get better so she could continue working. And honestly, she just didn’t really want to talk about it. She wanted to live her life, on her terms, and be with her family." - Los Angeles Times
But when the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up revealed that with kids, she's let go of trying to be so tidy, the internet freaked out. - NPR
As Hollywood Shuffle joins the Criterion Collection (making him one of the very rare Black directors on the list), Townsend is also coming off a couple of years of steady experimentation with Netflix's Kaleidoscope and the conclusion of the Best Man stories. - Washington Post
"sdf"The Vermont Law and Graduate School wants to take down a mural that some consider outdated and racist. But a law protecting artistic expression could preserve the painting." - WCAX (Burlington)
Oscar-nominated director Lukas Dhont of Close says, "I believe we can learn many things from listening to 13-year-olds, because they are still so closely connected to the hearts. ... They’re so uncensored." - Los Angeles Times
She's on TikTok, of course - or at least, her new fans are, and they're heading to Bath in droves. One academic even suggests that "Austen is the most memed writer after Shakespeare." - The Observer (UK)
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI claimed the anonymous plaintiffs didn't have standing, and that "GitHub's Copilot system, which suggests lines of code for programmers, made fair use of the source code." - Reuters
The proposed architectural overhaul for London's Liverpool Street Station has some issues. "The new work was represented as a white substance impervious to weather and dirt. Trees were shown flourishing in overshadowed locations where they would struggle to grow." - The Observer (UK)
Kyra Nichols returns to help City Ballet figure some things out: "How can a dancer replace force with something more free? How can she explore the possibilities of effortless dancing, the kind that Nichols was known for." - The New York Times
Will the actor really face jail time? Should he? Thing is, "it is in the common understanding that guns are dangerous and are in fact designed to cause death." That makes the Rust shooting different from other workplace accidents. - Slate
Even when it doesn't break under hordes of Taylor Swift fans, it's intensely, ridiculously, unbelievably bad. "In the best-case scenario, customers would feed money into the system and receive their tickets without much hassle. That’s not the reality." - The Atlantic
"It’s always dubious to draw zeitgeist-y conclusions amid all the variables. ... Yet that has rarely stopped any critic and I can confidently assert that, as a culture, we are bummed — but also hopeful!" - The New York Times
The term is now "mummified person." Museums in the UK and some in the US "have rewritten their display labels and online resources with the new language as it 'can encourage visitors to think of the individual who once lived.'" - Hyperallergic
Syms, nominated for two BAFTAs, was a hit with her first major role in 1956, playing a young delinquent in My Teenage Daughter. Nominated for two BAFTAs, she later played Margaret Thatcher and, memorably, Queen Mother to Helen Mirren in The Queen. - The Guardian (UK)
