"The idea was, Well, if women were qualified for these jobs or wanted these jobs, they would just rise into them. They would just take them. So, everyone’s kind of allowed to fool themselves into thinking this is how things are supposed to be." - Slate
Tony-winner Ali Stroker has a new book out, and a new kid, so what has she seen on Broadway? Nothing, "because Mom life. ... But I want to see Sweeney Todd, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Hadestown." - The New York Times
The union says not actor adults, but yes, their kids, can dress as characters from struck movies. (For instance, Barbie or Ken, or perhaps Oppenheimer?) - Los Angeles Times
Justine Triet, director of Anatomy of a Fall, spoke out against French film funding after she won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - and then her film wasn't chosen for France's nominee to the Academy Awards. - The Observer (UK)
Her 47-year career came to a close in Berlin last week. For every role, she says, "I ask myself, What do I want to say? What could I be in this role? And then I decide if I should do it, and how I’ll do it." - The New York Times
The woman said Elfman abused her while she was a young, aspiring composer. The accusations include his "exposing his genitals to her and masturbating in front of her while she slept." - Los Angeles Times
At Bobby Baker's restaging of her 1976 An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, visitors "five lifesize family members made of biscuits, meringue and cake (including, in an updating of the original, a vegan option)." - The Guardian (UK)
Green, who made The Assistant and has the new Royal Hotel out, says - only partly about her films, where women face dangers at work - "I think we need to change the entire structure and blow it all up." - The New York Times
In 1956, Australia held an international competition "to design a national performance venue on Bennelong Point that would put Sydney on the map" - an idea that certainly worked. - BBC
One gallerist says, "The quality of the work is better, things are presented more thoughtfully. And collectors like spending more time here" (despite a resurgence of Parisian bedbugs). - The New York Times
Authors are suing to get their work, and characters, out of AI programs. "OpenAI, for its part, has contended that training an AI system falls under fair use protections." - Los Angeles Times
Susan Jaffe has some questions to answer, like how can ABT reflect society, and attract younger audiences - "and how do you make a historic institution feel relevant without becoming something it is not?" - MSN (Town and Country)
