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Though the movies that won awards were serious, the festival "has turned into something of a testing ground for the hit potential of Hollywood comedies." " The New York Times
Well, for one thing, it could encourage actors (stage managers, lighting crew members, etc.) to job-share. Also, with professionals, idea: "We need to make sure we are not rehearsing into th…
Nope. Studies are showing, more and more, that the people who listen to information while they sleep may actually be learning it pretty well. For instance, in a recent study, "68 German stud…
There are spoilers in this article, just FYI " but not in this excerpt: "In addition to [experienced cat actor] Reggie and another experienced animal actor, Archie (yes, they're named after …
Though Woman-Ochre will go to the Getty for about 18 months of restoration, and will be shown at the Getty before it returns to Arizona, the painting stolen in 1985, it gets one night of pre…
James Gunn's firing from the Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was controversial because Disney fired him when "two far-right provocateurs, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, threw a spo…
Stevenson was among many other arts leaders in Britain who said Brexit was a terrible idea. She added, "I spent last year filming a series called Riviera, which had a French crew, Belgian di…
Merwin "was one of the most highly decorated poets in the nation, and very likely the world. He was the United States poet laureate from 2010 to 2011; won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Boo…
The show, called The Pinks and the Blues, "developed by the activist troupe Merak, triggered intense scrutiny from local authorities who saw it as a dangerous and subversive activity promoti…
Copeland's colleague at American Ballet Theatre used to be a kid looking up to her " and Copeland is impressed with the adult Lall: "Erica is very mature in terms of knowing what she wants a…
It's Brexit Week (or maybe it isn't; find out as the week goes on), so here are some artists to help add music to politics: "We could call this explosion 'woke' folk " though there's much mo…
Just a year ago, talent agency Endeavor helped throw a huge, splashy party to celebrate Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. "The soiree, with guests including the Disney chief ex…
A multi-year project can't figure out how Europe can reconcile all of the mass graves, no matter how many memorials and museums are built. And things are scary: "After all the truth commissi…
Let one of his most famous contestants explain. Ken Jennings, owner of the longest win streak on Jeopardy, writes, "When the cameras stop rolling, Alex is a looser, even goofy presence. He t…
McCracken, author of the new novel The Bowlaways (and quite a few other novels and short stories), explains her character Bertha: "I was thinking about the ways in which women give up things…
As Fox's film and television operations (not including Fox News and Sports, or the lot itself) prepare to go to Disney, "The Los Angeles Times spoke to dozens of actors, executives and other…
Why, to amplify meaning, of course. Or because you're writing about Tudor England. In Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, for instance, "all the leading male characters apart from Henry VIII …
Music writer David Hadju says that though the musician bore some resemblance to Mahershala Ali's Oscar-winning portrait of him in the movie Green Book, there was a lot more to the man " incl…
In what seems a twist worthy of season 65 of the Netflix show The Crown, the BBC has started mocking the numbers, or rather lack of numbers, Netflix shares about one of its most expensive sh…
Wow. Senator Warren is dropping antitrust ideas as fast as, well, Facebook and Google and Amazon and Apple gobble up our time and privacy. After her Medium post didn't mention Apple, Warren …
Curators have to ask themselves, "Has this ever, does this now, and will this ever spark joy?" (Ha ha, kidding. What they have to ask is more like, "What letter grade would I give this Marc …
Theatre can be magical, yes " but if you work in the theatre,"it's easy to forget what compelled us into the profession in the first place. It can be lost amid the realities of the job at ha…
Duh, right? Captain Marvel had the seventh-highest opening for a Marvel movie and by far the highest debut for a film fronted by a woman. (Also, Marvel, perhaps because of its internal and e…
The chair of the negotiating committee for the union said in a statement, "Beginning at 8 a.m. Monday morning, March 11, picket lines will stretch across all of the doors of Orchestra Hall t…
She published the novel in 1961 under the pen name Eliot George, and then the "three years later, when Ms. Freeman wrote the screenplay for a film of the same title, she used her real name. …
