Yeoh, on Everything Everywhere All at Once: "When we were doing the butt-plug fight sequences, I was on the ground, laughing my head off, going like: 'Oh my God! Would I have ever thought that one day I would be doing this kind of martial arts?'" - The Guardian (UK)
"There were impassioned statements on Ukraine, the killing of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, social media polarization, climate change, the deluge of disinformation and the global decline of democracy." Writers might not be able to solve it all. - The New York Times
The publishing house Vivat's 117 employees are scattered across the world because "the city of Kharkiv, where Vivat is based, has been under fire from the first day of the war to the present day." Those who stayed sent company equipment to those who left. - LitHub
Star David Motta, 25, "had called Russia home for 13 years. The Bolshoi Academy had taken him in as a boy and turned him into an international star." But he knew he had to leave when Russia invaded Ukraine. - France 24 (AFP)
"As media habits change, the entire system is likely to be overhauled, and the networks are relying more heavily on Nielsen rivals, trying to gain more control over the process — before someone else does." - Variety
At Pasadena's A Noise Within theatre, it took the production team "five months to design and construct the makeshift pool for the production’s run." Luckily, the production manager had worked "in pool service." (This is L.A., after all.) - Los Angeles Times
Toossi on previews of English at the Atlantic Theater: "The terror of an audience coming was, like, definitely something I wish I had been prepared for. But also, something I think you can only learn by having an audience coming!" - NPR
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, "Oral arguments were held on Monday this week, and the judges 'seemed to struggle with basic tech concepts.'" The tech companies will likely appeal. - Wired
If you were watching TV in the late 1990s, the name should strike a very familiar chord. "Kelley, the creator of The Practice, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Boston Public, and Chicago Hope, among others, was a star showrunner," to put it mildly. But Ally changed him. - Slate
Jessie Sima always loved to doodle horses, or one might honor that art with the word sketch, even. In eighth grade, another kid told Sima, "Someday you’re going to make children’s books." Now they have two horse-related books on the bestseller list. - The New York Times
Haley Lu Richardson was a dancer when she and her mom moved from Phoenix to L.A. Her success has been a slow burn. "I’d rather be doing a smaller independent film with people that I really feel like I can collaborate with and I really trust." - The Guardian (UK)
Sonia Boyce "greets the trophy with a mix of gratitude and circumspection. 'It seems almost ridiculous that it takes into the 21st century for a Black British female artist to be invited to do Venice.'" - The New York Times
"Much like the painstaking process of recording cassettes for one another in the pre-playlist age, editing an anthology is intimate, a gesture towards the reader. And just as you never used to be able to put absolutely every tune you wanted to on tape, the same goes for anthologies." - The Guardian (UK)
Its interim CEO wants to bid on it, and there may be one other bidder. "The HFPA’s move comes after more than a year of turmoil for the nearly 80-year-old press organization," including the group refusal of publicists to let their clients go to the (untelevised) Golden Globes. - Variety
