Critics raved, and lines stretched around the block, when The Joy Luck Club opened in 1993. The actors and director started to receive offers – and they thought the long drought of good movies and roles for Asians and Asian Americans in Hollywood was coming to an end. But “roadblocks proved shockingly resilient. Instead of ushering in a crop of Asian-American projects, The Joy Luck Club remained a token for more than two decades.” Will Crazy Rich Asians be different?
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Did A Naked Burt Reynolds End Up In A Native Art Gallery In Seattle?
Tlingit artist Alison Marks made it to answer the male gaze that permeates the contemporary Pacific Northwest market. She said, “Many of the male artists working today are kind and gifted and admirable people, but there are these very detailed anatomical works on the market representing the female form.”
Accused Sexual Harasser Les Mooves, Reported To Have Been ‘Obsessed’ With Ruining Janet Jackson’s Career, Is Finally Gone From CBS
Ronan Farrow reported a long piece in The New Yorker on the accusations against him in July and added a follow-up report Sunday, September 9, days after the HuffPost’s Yashar Ali reported that the CBS exec wanted Janet Jackson’s career “destroyed” after the infamous “wardrobe malfunction.” Moonves is now gone from the network.
Britain Scraps Plans To Increase Tax On Lower-Paid Theatre Workers By 500 Percent
Er, yes, that cancelation seems like a good idea for everyone who’s self-employed and earning less than £6.205 per year.
Irving Petlin, Artist Who Used Symbolism To Paint About Social Upheaval, Has Died At 83
Petlin “strove to preserve history in a style that was neither realistic nor abstract. Rather than depict brutal events graphically, he reimagined them with subtlety and surrealism.”
The Centenary Of One Of Wagner’s Greatest Interpreters
Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish soprano, had a “voice at full throttle [whose] sheer projectile force has been often and aptly compared to that of a steel blade.”
How Did Netflix Become A Comedy Powerhouse?
It’s because of Lisa Nishimura, basically, the vice president of original documentary and comedy programming who convinced Dave Chapelle to return to stand-up specials for the company. And she bet big on a lot more comedy as well. “Now, 50 percent of its 130 million [U.S.] subscribers have watched a special in the last year, and a third of those viewers have watched three such shows.”
New York Gets Literal Signs Of Climate Change
The art show “includes 10 solar-powered signs installed in parks around the city. Each sign flashes climate-change-related phrases in English and in Spanish, Russian, French and other languages used in nearby neighborhoods.” The show – city-supported! – even gets environmental justice walking tours.
Movie Star Olivia Munn Gets Shunned By Her Male Co-Stars And Her Director After She Gets A Sex Offender Cut From A Movie
Way to go, (most) men of Predator. The director, Shane Black (whose friend was the abuser that he put in a scene with Munn), hasn’t bothered to apologize to Munn, and the cast members who were scheduled to appear with her at the Toronto Independent Film Festival backed out. Munn: “It’s honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me. … It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast.”
Poet, Novelist, And Picture-Book Writer Jacqueline Woodson Explains Where Her Books Come From
Woodson has two books out this week – and both immediately made bestseller lists. Where does the prolific award-winner get her ideas and her lyrical style? The South.