“At top U.S. film schools, women and men are almost equally represented. … Yet between the day these women graduate and the day, a few years later, that their male college peers begin showing up in film credits, most women filmmakers vanish into obscurity.” Here’s a look at the ways it happens.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Sussing Out The Tony Nominations With Charles McNulty
“If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. … Stare long enough into the chaos, however, and a few patterns, can be divined.”
Hahaha, Heehee, Heh – How We Spell Laughter In Texts And Emails
Sarah Larson: “The terms of e-laughter – ‘ha ha,’ ‘ho ho,’ ‘hee hee,’ ‘heh’ – are implicitly understood by just about everybody. But, in recent years, there’s been an increasingly popular newcomer: ‘hehe.’ Not surprisingly, it’s being foisted upon us by youth. What does it mean?”
David Letterman On 33 Years In Late-Night Television
“Q: Did you think people were surprised to hear you talk about these matters [i.e., his sex scandal] so candidly?
A: I didn’t know what else to do. I couldn’t think of a really good lie.”
Betsy Von Furstenberg, 83, Baroness And Actress
“A glamorous German-born baroness who made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.”
Seeing ‘Hamilton’ At Public Theater Becomes New York Celebs’ Number-One Status Symbol
“Over the last four months, the boldface names have come, one after another, to this cozy downtown theater to see the show’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, rap and sing and love and cheat and rise and fall and fight and die.”
Goya’s Fantastical Drawings Of Witches And Old Women
“Over thirty-five years, from around 1794, when Goya, still in Madrid, was recovering from the devastating illness that left him permanently deaf and forced him to abandon grand court painting, to his death in Bordeaux in 1828, aged 82, he put together a sequence of eight ‘albums’ of brush and ink drawings. Often he added a laconic, ironic caption in black chalk.”
Why Trollope Is Trending: He’s Still The Novelist For The Way We Live Now
Adam Gopnik: “Words change meaning over time, and the quality of irony that we value today is omnipresent in Trollope – and that is the habit of turning objects and values upside down, of seeing big and little inverted.”
Why Play Is Valuable In Itself, And Not Just For Practical Benefits It May Provide
“[Behavioral science] suggests that play is also a crucial part of the full life of the human animal, and yet philosophers have said very little about it. Usually, if we see an appreciation of play, it’s an attempt to show its secret utility value – ‘See, it’s pragmatic after all!’ … All this is true of course, but one also wonders about the uniquely human meaning of play and leisure. Can we consider play and leisure as something with inherent value, independent of their accidental usefulness?”
Wait – You Can Get An Earworm Out Of Your Head By Chewing Gum? Really?
That’s what the science appears to say (so far).