The venue "has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks, just days after the famed Milan theater staged its high-profile opera season opener with a full-capacity audience." - Voice of America News (AP)
At least, live pop music is seeing its attendance take another dive; some artists estimate that as many as 40 percent of those who have tickets aren't showing up at venues. - The Observer (UK)
Indeed, the Spanish "obscures the fact that the entire film and its depiction of Puerto Rican communities are still inherently mediated through the story’s original white male creators, and now, through the film’s white director, white screenwriter, white cinematographer, and mostly white producers." - Slate
Why are they still here? "Hollywood as a whole called on the HFPA to exit stage left, take a beat and come back stronger (and more diverse, more legitimate) in 2023. But, alas, Monday is happening." - Washington Post
Mary's final letter was to her cousin Henry III of France. "An international team of researchers have found that Mary used a delicate folding process to seal the letter, ensuring that any tampering would be immediately obvious to its recipient." - The Guardian (UK)
As the studio pushed West Side Story back last year, allegations of assault against one of the movie's main characters burst into public consciousness. How has public perception been altered, or controlled, since? - Variety
Teachers in the arts "have a unique ability to affect students' agency, the sense of being able to take what is a mess or chaos and make order out of it ... even if one is feeling lost in oneself or in the context of one's daily circumstances." - KQED
The series is ending, but its costumes and other props will live on at the Emily Dickenson Museum, while the made-for-TV carefully recreated manuscripts are heading to join their real kin at Harvard. "It’s one legacy that blends into another." - The New York Times
And no, that's not because "Gen Z doesn't like musicals" or something like that. Instead, it's a Spielberg problem. "Over the last 20 years, he has worked, numerous times now, in a self-styled obsessive genre that I would call the Metaphorical Topical Statement." - Variety
Turns out that much complained about and, to Hollywood, highly disruptive move was a winner for its streamer, HBO Max. Through day-and-date movie releases including Dune, "HBO Max may have found a way to hack the streaming wars." - Wired
Nesmith was called "the quiet Monkee" by the marketers behind the TV show, but "he was musician enough to have a modest solo career after Monkee mania faded at the end of the 1960s, and that led him into a role in music-television history." - The New York Times
The lawsuit claims that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association expelled Magnus Sundholm to get back at his partner, who had been a whistleblower against the group. - Los Angeles Times
Sometimes it's better to read than to experience. "I think I like winter weather best when it’s on the page and not the thing standing between me and the closest bar or the corner bodega when I’m out of popcorn." - LitHub
