Sunday, March 11, 2018
That's right, it's Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Do we need to explain? Well: "What started as a response to a Trump presidency now seems to speak to our times in many ways, with a plot that …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AM[SHARE]The showrunner shot the episode in November, and it was supposed to run in February. Instead, it will never be shown. The episode "features Anthony Anderson's patriarch Dre caring for his in…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]If you look at the early days of science fiction with the author of Frankenstein, and then turn to recent movies Black Panther, Annihilation, and A Wrinkle in Time, you get pretty serious ac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:00AM[SHARE]The American Library Association had given him the Carnegie Medal and a $5,000 prize for nonfiction for his most recent book, and they had intended to hand out the prize in June. He declined…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:30AM[SHARE]At the center of Quiara AlegrÃa Huedes' Elliot trilogy of plays - Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue; Water by the Spoonful; and The Happiest Song Plays Last - is the former soldier. But Elliot is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Virtual reality museums are almost too real - and new tools to make the art look 3D, plus some collectors eager to share their own work with people at a great remove, mean that anyone with a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30AM[SHARE]One of the boys - and we're talking children, not young men - has 140,000 followers on Instagram, and another teaches dance moves to his friends at recess. So don't think boys aren't into da…
SOURCE: www.thecut.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2018
All five Best Actress nominees, and many other actors, skipped interviews with E!'s Ryan Seacrest, and The New York Times just straight-up asked other actors to talk about #MeToo. Some of th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM[SHARE]Dutoit was a guest conductor for the BSO, and an independent investigator found that he harassed four women in the 1980s and 1990s.
SOURCE: Boston Globe Subscription at 11:31AM[SHARE]Actually, many more people have walked into the glass, but three people, in the first month of operation, have been hurt enough to call emergency services. "The glass has been specially trea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Whew, Jean-Jacques, WYD? "Rousseau did not pull any punches: according to him, far from contributing to the purification of morals, the sciences and the arts had had the opposite effect. The…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. "Members receive an email around…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]If, indeed the paintings belong to them: "The heirs of Mondrian, the pioneering Dutch abstractionist, have staked a claim to the paintings [at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld], assertin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:45AM[SHARE]If you were watching, you might have started laughing as soon as Viola Davis came out to present the Best Supporting Actor award: "The gold, giant bold type on the dark envelope, loudly anno…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AM[SHARE]Even in the early 20th century, women weren't allowed to study nude bodies at the Royal Academy - they had to travel to Rome or Paris to do that. But Annie Swynnerton persisted - even though…
SOURCE: http:0 at 08:00AM[SHARE]When she won for best actress in a motion picture, McDormand gave a short, fiery speech that ended with "I have two words for you: Inclusion rider." Those two words sent millions to Google, …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:45AM[SHARE]Obviously, it would do that because it's just a movie, not a life (and not even a biopic), but still: "The real Graham, who survived a poor-little-rich-girl childhood and an abusive marriage…
SOURCE: www.politico.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Also: "Search terms blocked on Sino Weibo, a microblogging site which is China's equivalent of Twitter, include 'disagree', 'personality cult', 'lifelong', 'immortality', 'emigrate', and 'sh…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:15AM[SHARE]New York's churches have been home to some pretty radical dance - and dancer/choreography Reggie Wilson wants to bring some of that cross-platform work back to life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AM[SHARE]If you want the summary, all of the acting awards went as expected; Guillermo del Toro won Best Director; and Shape of Water won Best Picture. But here's everything.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
Greg Porée, one of the guitarists for the orchestra, was stumped (yes, even in Los Angeles) when it came to finding the right guitar for the nominated song from the animated movie Coco: "Th…
SOURCE: www.scpr.org at 04:30PM[SHARE]Paramount sold the international rights to the movie, with five female leads, to Netflix, which means Paramount doesn't have to advertise or market it anywhere aside from the U.S. That's a p…
SOURCE: flavorwire.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sheen, whose major roles include roles in Frost/Nixon and The Queen, "said the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns showed that there is 'clearly a moment happening' but 'we have to make sure that …
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]'Righteous Poles' Make an Appeal Following Ronald S. Lauder's open letter ("It's Time to Dial Back the Rhetoric") about the Holocaust and recent anti-Semitic developments in Poland,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:15PM[SHARE]Maria Contreras-Sweet and her investors group have a plan: "to turn the rubble of Harvey Weinstein's former New York-based studio into a new, female-focused film and TV company run by women.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PM[SHARE]The author, who just won The Story Prize for her Anything Is Possible, says, "The first time I read it, I was on vacation with my in-laws and sitting by the pool one of them said: 'Liz, that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]Perhaps the feeling of harmony can be laid at the feet of Deborah Borda, the NY Phil's new president and chief executive officer. "Since her arrival she has helped to extricate the orchestra…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PM[SHARE]Why is it under discussion? Because Johnson finally - finally - had to answer questions about the cost to the public of a bridge that never got built. "A total of £60m of public money was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Yes, Ryan Seacrest has been accused of sexual harassment, which makes E!'s chances of getting good red carpet time at the Oscars slightly less good than they were before (actors appear to be…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PM[SHARE]Yes, women have often sung tenor in church choirs or amateur operas, but now "female singers in professional companies, as well as in amateur operatic societies and choirs, are taking advant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM[SHARE]Her last lawsuit against Hollywood made case law, establishing protection for workers in personal services contracts - and helped break the studio system. Now, if this lawsuit against FX and…
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