Tag: 01.23.21
The New Elite: Those Who Have Been Vaccinated
"A leisure class of the newly vaccinated will mean that hotels, catering services and other businesses will be scrambling to employ bartenders, servers and...
Making Film That’s Both Political And Personal
Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, who directed and wrote the new film Identifying Features, "don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically....
Walter Bernstein, Blacklisted And Celebrated Filmmaker, 101
Bernstein's "career as a top film and television screenwriter was derailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, and decades later turned that experience into one...
The Internet Is Shaping, ANd Changing, The Novel
Can a novel be, or feel, contemporary without references to doomscrolling or at least brushing up against social media? "While the internet and mobile...
Whiners Didn’t Like A New Star Wars Host’s Support Of Black Lives Matter
The official Star Wars account (and thus, Disney) is backing its Star Wars: The High Republic Show host Krystina Arielle, a Black woman who...
The Backstage Details Of That Pandemic Inauguration Gala Spectacular
The producer of the Celebrating America gala had to be very cautious, and very (very) flexible: "Our plans were carved in Jello. Everything was...
Turns Out Netflix Has A Vice President Of Inclusion Strategy
That's a long way to say the global creator and distributor of streaming (and don't forget DVD) content wants, and needs, to diversify the...
Larry King, Interviewer Of Darn Near Everyone, 87
King "shot the breeze with presidents and psychics, movie stars and malefactors — anyone with a story to tell or a pitch to make...