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Hollywood’s Addiction To Sequels Is Going To Kill The Future Of Hollywood

In 10 years, they’ll be making sequels to what, exactly? - Variety

Canada’s Largest Publishers Have Had It With OpenAI

And they’re filing a major lawsuit over copyright violations. "The suit was filed by several leading Canadian media companies, including the owners of the National Post and Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada.” - The Verge

How To Win The Best Picture Oscar

If your cast is a big, happy family - or at least looks like on on Instagram - you’ve exponentially increased your chances. - Vulture

Hal Lindsey, Author Of The Late, Great Planet Earth, Has Died At 95

Lindsey was “a onetime Mississippi Delta tugboat captain who became a campus preacher and improbably vaulted to fame and riches by writing that the world would soon end with natural catastrophes and ruinous wars.” - The New York Times

We All Need To Apologize To LMM

Everyone who made fun of Moana - and that’s a lot of us - needs to beg forgiveness. Why? “The music of Moana 2 is the biggest mark against it with derivative melodies and clunky lyrics that screech the action to a halt.” - Vulture

Does Music Have A Future In Health Care?

Tech folks would like to think so. "Soon, you'll have the option to subscribe to music on demand where the ‘demand’ comes from your own biometrics, serving you music to calm you down, invigorate you for an exercise workout, help you focus at work, or treat ailments.” - Wired

What Maggie Nelson Likes About Emma Corrin, And Vice Versa

Corrin: "The vulnerability was always the hook for me.” - The New York Times

How Period Films’ Composers Use Odd Instruments To Recreate Sounds Of Their Times

For instance, for Nickel Boys, "Composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario recorded traditional instruments, children’s choirs and even the sounds of toys, then processed them into something that Somers describes as ‘slow and ambient and textural.’” - Variety

Her Name Turned Into ‘Moana’ When She Was Fourteen

Even her teachers called her that instead of her name. But Auli’i Cravalho now says, "I’m looking forward to directing, to producing, to starting a production company. ... But I have so much growth to do before then. I grew up without a television.” - The New York Times

The Issue For Gen-Z And Reading Isn’t Really Books Or Phones

Instead, it’s time. “Pundits and parents alike have emphasized preprofessional courses and downplayed the importance of humanistic study. ... In this environment, spending hours reading a novel may seem unproductive.” - The Atlantic

How Do Cities Decide What To Save?

“Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don’t always protect what we actually want to save.” - The New York Times

More Cities Should Have Places Like Dallas’s Chapel Of Thanksgiving

The scroll-shaped structure, designed in 1976 by Philip Johnson and illuminated inside with the ceiling's beautiful spiral of stained-glass windows by artist Gabriel Loire, is linked to the general feeling of gratitude rather than the holiday, and it serves Dallas well as a non-sectarian place for public commemoration. - Bloomberg CityLab

What, Actually, Is Cancel Culture? (And How It Took Over The World)

The gambit of Stanford literature professor Adrian Daub’s clarifying new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, is the contention that, in fact, we don’t really know what “cancel culture” is. - The New Republic

Publishers Freak Out Over Startup’s Plans To Publish With AI

The company is seemingly “just trying to speed up” self-publishing “in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to call it that”, said Marco Rinaldi, co-host of Page One – The Writer’s Podcast, in a post on Bluesky. - The Guardian

What I Learned Setting Up A DIY Record Label

The biggest issue facing the DIY scene is simply getting noticed, such is the competition across all media – for all there is enthusiastic music journalism online and ambassadors for music on TikTok. Instagram and beyond, the weekly music press inkies who would pick up and write about these bands are still sorely missed. - The Guardian

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