Seriously, is that ring on her finger just to remind us that she’s flipping us off and taking all of our money with every new book, movie, play, script, what have you? “At this point, the whole thing feels like a Cruciatus curse (often used on Muggles): it’s all very painful, and I wish it would stop.”
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The Composer Who Invented Her Own Religion As A Child, And Is Trying To Bring Unity Through Music Now
Reena Esmail culled texts from seven major religions of India to create her work “This Love Between Us.”Whatever you believe, somewhere in your religious canonical text it says that you should be good to one another. … If you are not doing that, it is not your religion that is mandating it. It is you making a choice to go against your own religion.”
YouTube Quietly Started Offering Free, Ad-Supported Movies A Couple Of Months Ago
Before October, people could buy movies on the platform, but now? It’s … kind of like TV movies in the 1970s and 1980s. “‘Can we do ad-supported movies, free to the user?’ says Rohit Dhawan, director of product management at YouTube. ‘It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers.'”
Turns Out Duolingo Is Good For Getting You To Do Duolingo, Not To Learn A Language
The challenge of Duo, with its addiction-causing rewards and points and treasure chests, is that it’s trying to figure out both how to get people to learn – and how to get them to stay. The CEO: “We prefer to be more on the addictive side than the fast-learning side. … If someone drops out, their rate of learning is zero.”
Is There Any Way For The TV Version Of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ To Compare Well With The Book?
Perhaps. Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet of books are loved for their main character’s thoughts, but “while My Brilliant Friend is a brilliantly sustained exercise in interiority, it is also a noisy, messy, soap opera (as the index of characters, neatly captured in the TV credits by old-fashioned family photo tableaux, suggests).”
William Goldman, Writer Of ‘The Princess Bride’ And ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,’ Has Died At 87
Goldman wrote screenplays for many a film, and the book and screenplay for Marathon Man and The Princess Bride; but “despite being one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters, [he] was an outspoken critic of the movie industry.”
Julian Schnabel Says Everything We Think We Know About Van Gogh Is Wrong
Schnabel, who has a new “course correction” movie (not a biopic, or something) about Van Gogh: “I didn’t think he was failed artist. He was doing exactly what he wanted to do, and success is not measured by sales or money. The reward is making the work, not other people agreeing with you.”
The Tory Government Disappoints Writers And Activists About Libraries – Again
Library activists started a petition to get library funding “ringfenced” or safeguarded – but the government responded that local control is everything.
Can A New Superhero Help Increase The Tiny Number Of Black Stuntwomen?
There are currently 397 people on the British Stunt Register – only two are black women. Shaina West wants to change that, she tells BBC Radio 5, and she’s created a new alter ego to help. (video)
The Hottest U.S. Literary Trend Isn’t American Literature At All
Nope. It’s books in translation. Why? Maybe the internet, or cell phones, or something entirely different – but the National Book Foundation is about to add a National Book Award for Translated Literature, the first new prize for the National Book Awards in more than 20 years.